Resolution Number: 2012-A057
Title: Authorize Enriching Our Worship
Legislative Action Taken: Concurred
Final Text:

Resolved, That the 77th General Convention authorize continuing use of Enriching Our Worship 1: The Daily Office, Great Litany, and Eucharist; Enriching Our Worship 2: Ministry with the Sick and Dying and Burial of a Child; Enriching Our Worship 3: Burial Rites for Adults together with a Rite for the Burial of a Child; Enriching Our Worship 4: The Renewal of Ministry and the Welcoming of a New Rector or other Pastor; and Enriching Our Worship 5: Liturgies and Prayers Related to Childbearing, Childbirth, and Loss, under the direction of a bishop exercising ecclesiastical authority.

Citation: General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Indianapolis, 2012 (New York: General Convention, 2012), p. 553.

Legislative History

Author: Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music
Originating House: House of Bishops
Originating Committee: Prayer Book, Liturgy and Church Music

House of Bishops

Resolution A057 (Authorize Enriching Our Worship 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5) was removed from the Consent Calendar.

House of Bishops

The House of Bishops Committee on Prayer Book, Liturgy and Church Music presented its Report #7 on Resolution A057 (Authorize Enriching Our Worship 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5) and moved adoption.

Original Text of Resolution

(A057)

Resolved, the House of Deputies concurring, That the 77th General Convention authorize continuing use of Enriching Our Worship 1: The Daily Office, Great Litany, and Eucharist; Enriching Our Worship 2: Ministry with the Sick and Dying and Burial of a Child; Enriching Our Worship 3: Burial Rites for Adults together with a Rite for the Burial of a Child; Enriching Our Worship 4: The Renewal of Ministry and the Welcoming of a New Rector or other Pastor; and Enriching Our Worship 5: Liturgies and Prayers Related to Childbearing, Childbirth, and Loss, under the direction of a bishop exercising ecclesiastical authority.

Motion carried

Resolution adopted

(Communicated to the House of Deputies in HB Message # 101)

House of Deputies

The House of Deputies Committee on Prayer Book, Liturgy and Church Music presented its Report #13 on HB Message #101 on Resolution A057 (Authorize Enriching Our Worship 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5) and moved concurrence.

Motion carried

The House concurred

(Communicated to the House of Bishops in HD Message #183)

Resolution Concurred by Both Houses, July 10.

Report Reference:   Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music, Reports to the 77th General Convention, 2012, pp. 162-474.
Abstract:   The 77th General Convention authorizes continuing use of Enriching Our Worship 1-5.