The Acts of Convention

House of Deputies

On the Tenth Day, the House of Deputies adopted Resolution A-108, directing the Standing Liturgical Commission to edit and prepare for publication of The Proposed Book of Common Prayer.

Original Text of Resolution:

(A108)

Whereas, the Standing Liturgical Commission has completed the first stage of the process of Prayer Book Revision entrusted to it by the Sixty-Second and subsequent General Conventions; and

Whereas, it is essential for the successful completion of this process that a program of intensive education in the use of The Proposed Book of Common Prayer be undertaken during the triennium 1977-79; and

Whereas, the completion of the first phase of the program of Prayer Book Revision makes it necessary that related programs be undertaken and brought to speedy conclusion; now, therefore, be it

Resolved, the House of Bishops Concurring, That the Standing Liturgical Commission be requested, and is hereby authorized:

1. to edit and prepare for publication The Proposed Book of Common Prayer as expeditiously as possible;
2. to prepare an Altar edition based on The Proposed Book of Common Prayer;
3. to undertake a revision of the Book of Offices
4. to complete a study of the sources of various liturgical formularies included in The Proposed Book of Common Prayer, and arrange for the publication of such study;
5. to review the Main Lectionary and the Daily Office Lectionary, and to prepare and publish a study setting forth the rationale and principles on which the lectionaries have been constructed;
6. to initiate, in cooperation with diocesan liturgical committees and commissions, an intensive program of education in the use of The Proposed Book of Common Prayer;
7. to maintain and develop contacts with other churches of the Anglican Communion and with other Christian churches with regard to the revision of the liturgies of their churches;
8. to maintain close contact with the Standing Commission on Church Music;
9. to continue the task assigned to it under its original mandate of collecting and collating criticisms, suggestions for improvement, and proposals for amendments to The Book of Common Prayer, with a view to undertaking, at a date to be decided by a future General Convention, such a further program of revision as may be considered necessary to keep the Prayer Book of this Church up to date in terms of growing discoveries in liturgical research, and also in terms of the spiritual needs of the people; and further
10. to report to the General Convention on all aspects of this work.

Resolution adopted

(Communicated to the House of Bishops in HD Message #153)