| Resolution Number: | 2000-A043 |
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| Title: | Endorse Procedures for Achieving a Common Date for Easter |
| Legislative Action Taken: | Concurred |
| Final Text: | |
Resolved, That the 73rd General Convention, in response to Lambeth Conference Resolution IV.8: "A Common Date for Easter" endorse the proposal of the World Council of Churches that the following procedures for achieving a commonly recognized date for the celebration of Easter, as the day of resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, should be agreed upon by all Christian Churches:
- Maintain the Nicene norms that Easter fall on the Sunday following the first vernal full moon;
- Calculate the date of the vernal equinox from the data provided by the most accurate scientific and astronomical methods;
- Use as the basis of reckoning the meridian of Jerusalem, the place of Christ's death and resurrection; and be it further
Resolved, That this endorsement be communicated to the Secretary of the Anglican Consultative Council by the Feast of the Nativity, AD 2000.
| Citation: | General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Denver, 2000 (New York: General Convention, 2001), p. 529. |
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Legislative History
| Author: | The Standing Commission on Ecumenical Relations |
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| Originating House: | House of Bishops |
| Originating Committee: | Committee on Ecumenical Relations |
House of Bishops
Original Text of Resolution:
(A043)
Resolved, the House of Deputies concurring, That the 73rd General Convention, in response to Lambeth Conference Resolution IV.8: "A Common Date for Easter" endorse the proposal of the World Council of Churches that the following procedures for achieving a commonly recognized date for the celebration of Easter, as the day of resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, should be agreed upon by all Christian Churches:
- Maintain the Nicene norms that Easter fall on the Sunday following the first vernal full moon;
- Calculate the date of the vernal equinox from the data provided by the most accurate scientific and astronomical methods;
- Use as the basis of reckoning the meridian of Jerusalem, the place of Christ's death and resurrection; and be it further
Resolved, That this endorsement be communicated to the Secretary of the Anglican Consultative Council by the Feast of the Nativity, AD2000.
Motion carried
Resolution adopted
(Communicated to the House of Deputies in HB Message #76)
House of Deputies
The House of Deputies Committee on Ecumenical Relations presented its Report #6 on HB Message #76 on Resolution A043 (Proposed Common Date for Easter) and moved concurrence.
Debate followed on the resolution.
The question was called.
A vote was taken to terminate debate.
Motion carried
Debate terminated
A vote was taken on Resolution A043.
The House concurred
(Communicated to the House of Bishops in HD Message #124)
Resolution Concurred by Both Houses, July 11.
| Report Reference: | Standing Commission on Ecumenical Relations, Reports to the 73rd General Convention, 2000, pp. 81-118. |
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| Abstract: | The 73rd General Convention endorses the WCC's proposed procedures for achieving a common date for Easter. |
| Notes: | The minutes of the House of Deputies read: "The Secretary also pointed out a typographical error in Resolution A043 (Proposed Common Date for Easter) in which line 7 should have read "full" moon." |