Resolution Number: 2018-A065
Title: Authorize Continued Use of Lesser Feasts and Fasts 2006
Legislative Action Taken: Concurred as Substituted and Amended
Final Text:

Resolved, That the 79th General Convention authorize the continued use of Lesser Feasts and Fasts 2006; and be it further

Resolved, That the 79th General Convention commend the continued availability of Great Cloud of Witnesses 2015 for the 2018-2021 triennium; and be it further

Resolved, That the new commemorations in Lesser Feasts and Fasts 2018 proposed by the SCLM be authorized for trial use and be included in the calendar for the 2018-2021 triennium, under Article X(b); and be it further

Resolved, That the SCLM provide the 80th General Convention with a clear and unambiguous plan for a singular calendar of Lesser Feasts and Fasts.

Citation: General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Austin, 2018 (New York: General Convention, 2018), p. 679.

Legislative History

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

House of Bishops

The House of Bishops Committee on Prayer Book, Liturgy and Music presented its Report #5 on Resolution A065 (Authorize Lesser Feasts and Fasts 2018) and moved for discussion to occur later.

Motion carried

Consideration postponed

[Ed Note: No specific time was set for further discussion of resolution A065 in the House of Bishops. On July 11th the HB Committee #12 report #5 was revoked in the legislative online system. Resolution A065 was then initiated in the House of Deputies instead who adopted a substitute on July 12th (Day Eight). The House of Bishops considered the HD substitute of resolution A065 on July 13th (Day Nine).]

House of Deputies

The House of Deputies Committee on Prayer Book, Liturgy and Music presented its Report #15 on Resolution A065 (Authorize Lesser Feasts and Fasts 2018) and moved adoption of a substitute.

Original Text of Resolution:

(A065)

Resolved, the House of Bishops concurring, That the 79th General Convention authorize for optional use throughout this Church the revision of Lesser Feasts and Fasts, prepared by the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music and published by the Church Hymnal Corporation, last revised in 2006; and be it further

Resolved, That General Convention direct the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music to appoint a person or persons to solicit and collect broad feedback from the Church with respect to this volume, and to utilize that feedback to bring any suggested revisions before the 80th General convention in 2021.

Committee Substitute:

Resolved, the House of Bishops concurring, That the 79th General Convention direct the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music to further revise the document known as Proposed Lesser Feasts and Fasts 2018 so as to eliminate the distinction between “Lesser Feasts and Fasts” and “Supplemental/Local Feasts,” providing propers and biographical information for all commemorations, and listing them upon a single calendar, and submit the revised document to the 80th General Convention; and be it further

Resolved, That in this process of revision, the SCLM use the criteria for inclusion reaffirmed by the 75th General Convention in Resolution 2006-A057 and amended by the 76th General Convention in Resolution 2009-A098; and be it further

Resolved, That the 79th General Convention authorize the following calendar, being a compilation of Proposed Lesser Feasts and Fasts 2018, A Great Cloud of Witnesses (2015), and Lesser Feasts and Fasts 2006, using these resources, during the 2018-2021 triennium.

Calendar Compilation:

Compilation List:

JANUARY

1 THE HOLY NAME OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST

1 Basil of Caesarea

2 Samuel V S. Azariah, first Indian Anglican Bishop, 1945

2 Seraphim of Sarov, Priest and Mystic, 1833

2 Juliana of Lazarevo, worker of charity, 1604

2 Gregory of Nazianzus

3 William Passavant, 1894, Prophetic Witness

3 Angela Foligno, mystic, 1309

3 Gladys Aylward, missionary, 1970

4 Elizabeth Ann Seton

4 Thomas Atkinson, bishop, 1881

5 Sarah, Theodora, and Syncletica of Egypt

6 THE EPIPHANY OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST

7

8 Harriet Bedell, deaconess and missionary, 1969-remove brackets

9 Julia Chester Emery, missionary, 1922

10 William Laud

10 Gregory of Nyssa2 (March 9 in BCP)

11 Mary Slessor, missionary, 1915

12 Aelred, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167

12 Caesaria of Arles, monastic, c. 465

13 Hillary of Poitier, 367

14 Richard Meux Benson3 and Charles Gore

14 George Berkeley, 1753

15 Alternate date for Martin Luther King, see April 4

15 Maurus and Placidus, disciples of St. Benedict, c. 584

16 Richard Meux Benson

16 Charles Gore

17 Antony of Egypt

18 THE CONFESSION OF SAINT PETER THE APOSTLE

19 Wulfstan of Worcester

20 Richard Rolle, 1349, Walter Hilton, 1396, Margery Kempe, c. 1440, mystics

20 Fabian, Bishop and Martyr, 250

21 Agnes and Cecilia of Rome

22 Vincent of Saragossa

23 Phillips Brooks, 1893

23 Satoko Kitahara, worker of charity, 1958

24 Ordination of Li Tim Oi, 1944

24 Florence Li Tim Oi, priest, 1992

25 THE CONVERSION OF SAINT PAUL THE APOSTLE

26 Timothy, Titus and Silas, Companions of Saint Paul

27 John Chrysostom, bishop of Constantinople, 407

27 Lydia, Dorcus, and Phoebe, witnesses of the faith

28 Thomas Aquinas, priest and friar and theologians, 1274

28 Isaac of Ninevah, Bishop and mystic, c, 700

29 Andei Rublev, monk and iconographer, 1430

30

31 Marcella of Rome

31 Samuel Shoemaker, priest and evangelist, 1963

31 Don Bosco, priest, 1888

FEBRUARY

1 Brigid of Kildare, also known as Bride, 523

2 THE PRESENTATION OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE

2 Esther John (Qamar Zia), nurse and martyr, 1960

3 Anskar

3 Dorchester Chaplains

4 Cornelius the Centurion

4 Anskar

4 Manche Masemola

5 Agatha of Sicily

5 The Martyrs of Japan, 1597

5 Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson

6 The Martyrs of Japan, 1597

7 Cornelius the Centurion

8 Bakhita (Josephine Margaret Bakhita)

9

10 Scholastica

11 Theodora

11 Frances Jane (Fanny) Crosby, 1950

12 Charles Freer Andrews, 1940

13 Absalom Jones, 1818

14 Cyril and Methodius

15 Thomas Bray

16 Charles Todd Quintard, 1898

17 Janani Luwum

18 Martin Luther

19 Agnes Tsao Kou Ying, Agatha Lin Zhao, and Lucy Yi Zhenmei

20 Frederick Douglass

21 John Henry Newman

22 Eric Liddell, 1945

22 Margaret of Cortona

23 Kate Harwood Waller Barrett

23 Polycarp of Smyrna

24 SAINT MATTHIAS THE APOSTLE

24 Amanda Berry Smith, preacher, missionary, 1915

25 Photini

25 John Roberts, 1949

26 Emily Malbone Morgan, 1937

27 George Herbert

27 Emily Malbone Morgan

28 Anna Julia Haywood Cooper

29 Elizabeth Evelyn Wright, 1904

29

MARCH

1 David of Wales

2 Chad of Lichfield

2 John and Charles Wesley

3 John and Charles Wesley

3 Katharine Drexel, monastic, 1955

4 Paul Cuffee, witness among the Shinnecock, 1812

5

6 William Mayo, 1911, and Charles Menninger, 1953, and their sons, pioneers in medicine

7 Perpetua and Felicity and their Companions

8 Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy

9 Gregory of Nyssa. 394

10 Harriet Ross Tubman

11

12 Gregory the Great

12 Symeon, the new theologian, monastic and poet, 1022

13 James Theodore Holly

14

15 Vincent de Paul and Louise de Marillac

16

17 Patrick of Ireland

17 Gertrude Nievelles, monastic, 659

18 Patrick of Ireland

18 Cyril of Jerusalem

19 SAINT JOSEPH

19 Thomas Ken

20 Thomas Ken

20 Cuthbert

21 Thomas Ken

21 Thomas Cranmer

21 Benedict of Nursia, alternate date

22 James De Koven

23 Gregory the Illuminator

23 Toribio de Mogrovejo, 1606

24 Oscar Romero and the Martyrs of El Salvador

25 THE ANNUNCIATION OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY

26 Harriet Monsell

26 Richard Allen, bishop, 1831

27 Charles Henry Brent

28 James Solomon Russell

29 John Keble

30 Innocent of Alaska, bishop, 1879

30 John Klimacus, monastic and theologians, 649

31 John Donne

APRIL

1 Frederick Denison Maurice

2 James Lloyd Breck

3 Mary of Egypt

3 Richard of Chichester

4 Martin Luther King, Jr

5 Harriet Starr Cannon

5 Pandita Mary Ramabai, prophetic witness and evangelist, 1922

6 Daniel Wu, priest and missionary Chinese Americans, 1956

7 Tikhon, patriarch of Russia, Confessor and ecumenist, 1925

8 William Augustus Muhlenberg, 1877

8 Anne Ayers, monastic, 1896

9 Dietrich Bonhoeffer

10 William Law

10 Pierre de Chardin

11 George Augustus Selwyn

12 Adoniram Judson, missionary to Burma, 1815

12 Teresa of the Andes, monastic, 1920

14 Edward Thomas Demby, 1928 and Henry Beard Delany, 1957

14 Zenaida, Philonella, and Hermione

15 Damien and Marianne Cope

16 Peter Williams Cassey and Annie Besant Cassey

16 Mary (Molly) Brant (Konwatsijayenni), Witnesses to the Faith among the Mohawks, 1796

17 Kateri Tekakwitha

17 Emily Cooper

18 Juana Inés de la Cruz

19 Alphege

20

21 Anselm

22 Hadewijch of Brabant

22 John Muir

22 Hudson Stuck

23 Toyohiko Kagawa

23 George, Soldier and Martyr, 304

23 Maria Gabriella Sagageddu, 1939

24 Genocide Remembrance

25 SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST

26 Robert Hunt, priest, 1607

27 Christina Rosetti, 1894

27 Zita of Tuscany

28

29 Catherine of Siena, 1380

30 Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, editor and prophetic witness, 1879

30 Marie of the Incarnation, monastic and educator, 1672

MAY

1 THE APOSTLES SAINT PHILIP AND SAINT JAMES

2 Athanasius of Alexandria

2 Elisabeth Cruciger, poet and hymnographer, 1535

3 Athanasius of Alexandria, bishop and theologians, 373

4 Monnica [sic], mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387

4 Martyrs of the Reformation Era

5

6

7 Harriet Starr Cannon, religious, 1896

8 Dame Julian of Norwich, c. 1417

9 Gregory of Nazianzus Bishop of Constantinople, 389

10 Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf, 1760

11 Johann Arndt and Jacob Boehme

11 Isadora of Tabenna, fool for Christ, 4th century

12

13 Frances Perkins

14 Anna Maria von Schurman, scholar and poet, 1679

15 Junia and Andronicus

15 Pachomius of Tabenissi, 348

16 Martyrs of Sudan [and South Sudan]

17 William Hobart Hafre, 1909

17 Thurgood Marshall, 1993

18 Mary Mccloud Bethune, educator, 1955

19 Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988

20 Alcuin of York, Deacon and Abbot of Tours

21 John Eliot, missionary among the Algonquin, 1690

21 Lydia of Thyatira

22 Helena of Constantinople, protector of Holy Places, 330

23 Copernicus, 1543 and Johannus Kepler, 1630, astronomers

24 Jackson Kemper

25 Venerable Bede, priest and monk of Jarrow, 735

26 Augustine of Canterbury

26 Mariana de Jesus Paredes, hermit and mystic, 1645

27 Bertha and Ethelbert, king and queen of Kent, 616

28 John Calvin, theologian, 1564

28 Mechthild of Magdeburg

29

30 Jeanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc) mystic and soldier, 1431

30 Basil the elder and Emilia of Cappadocia, c. 375

31 THE VISITATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY

JUNE

1 Justin Martyr

2 Blandina and her Companions, The Martyrs of Lyons

3 The Martyrs of Uganda

4 John XXIII, 1963

5 Boniface, Archbishop of Mainz, missionary to Germany and Martyr

6 Ini Kopuria, founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945

7 The Pioneers of the Episcopal Church of Brazil, 1890

8 Roland Allen, mission strategist [priest and missionary], 1947

8 Melania the Elder

9 Columba of Ion

9 William Alexander Guerry, 1928

9 Jeanne Guyon, mystic, 1717

10 Ephrem of Nisibis [of Odessa, Syria]

11 SAINT BARNABAS THE APOSTLE

12 Enmegahbowh

13 Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 1936

14 Basil the Great, Bishop of Caesarea, 379

14 Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 1936

15 Evelyn Underhill

16 Joseph Butler

17 Marina the Monk

18 Bernard Mizeki

19 Adelaide Teague Case

20 Alban, martyr

21

22 Alban, first martyr of Britain, c. 304

23

24 THE NATIVITY OF SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST

25 James Weldon Johnson, 1938

25 Fabronia, martyr

25 Presentation of the Augsburg Confession, 1530

26 Isabel Florence Hapgood

27 Cornelius Hill, priest and chief among the Oneida, 1907

28 Irenaeus of Lyons

29 THE APOSTLES SAINT PETER AND SAINT PAUL

30

JULY

1 Harriett Beecher Stowe, 1896

1 Catherine Winkworth, poet, 178

2 Pauli Murray, 1985

2 Moses the Black

2 Walter Rauschenbusch, 1918, Washington Gladden, 1918, Jacob Riis, 1914, prophetic witnesses

3

4 INDEPENDENCE DAY (United States of America)

5

6 John (Jan) Hus, 1415

6 Eva Lee Matthews, monastic, 1928

7

8 Priscilla and Aquila

9

10

11 Benedict of Nursia, Abbot of Monte Cassino, 540

12 Nathan Soderblom, Archbishop of Uppsala and ecumenist, 1930

13 Conrad Weiser, witness to peace and reconciliation, 1760

14 Samson Occam, witness to the faith in New England

14 Argula von Grumbach, scholar and church reformer, c. 1554

15

16 The Righteous Gentiles

17 William White, bishop of Pennsylvania, 1836

18 Bartolome de las Casas, friar and missionary to the Indies, 1566

19 Macrina of Caesarea, monastic and teacher, 379

19 John Hines, Bishop, 1997

20 Maria Skobtsoba, monastic and martyr, 1945

20 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Amelia Bloomer, Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Ross Tubman

21 Albert John Luthuli, prophetic witness in South Africa, 1967

22 SAINT MARY MAGDALENE

23 John Cassian

24 Thomas a Kempis

25 JAMES THE APOSTLE

26 Parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary

26 Charles Roman Barnes, 1938

27 William Reed Huntington

27

28 Johann Sebastian Bach; George Frederick Handel, Henry Purcell

29 Mary, Martha [and Lazarus] of Bethany

29 First ordination of Women to the priesthood in The Episcopal Church

30 William Wilberforce

31 Ignatius of Loyola

AUGUST

1 Joseph of Arimathea

2 Samuel Ferguson, Missionary Bishop of West Africa

3 George Freeman Bragg, Jr., priest, 1940

3 Joanna, Mary, and Salome

3 W. E. B. DuBois, 1963

4

5 Albrecht Durer, Matthias Grunwald, Cranach the Elder, artists

6 THE TRANSFIGURATION OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST

7 John Mason Neale

7 Catherine Winkworth, poet, 1878

8 Dominic

9 Herman of Alaska, missionary to the Aleut, 1837

9 Edith Stein (Teresa Benedicta of the Cross), philosopher, monastic, and martyr 1942

10 Laurence of Rome

11 John Henry Newman

11 Clare of Assisi

12 Florence Nightingale

13 Jeremy Taylor

14 Jonathan Myrick Daniels

15 SAINT MARY THE VIRGIN, MOTHER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST

16

17 Samuel Johnson, Timothy Cutler, Thomas Bradbury Chandler, priests

17 Baptism of Manteo and Virginia Dare

18 William Porcher DuBose

18 Artemesia Bowden

18 Rosa Judith Cisneros, public servant, 1980

19

20 Bernard of Clairvaux

21

22

23 Martin de Porres, Rosa de Lima, Toribio de Mogrevejo, witnesses to the faith in South America

24 Rose of Lima

24 Denzil A. Carty, priest, 1975

24 SAINT BARTHOLOMEW THE APOSTLE

25 Louis of France, 1270

26 Thomas Gallaudet and Henry Winter Syle

27 Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387

27 Thomas Gallaudet and Henry Winter Syle

28 Augustine of Hippo

28 Moses the Black

29 John Bunyan, 1688

29 The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist

30 Charles Grafton

30 Margaret Ward, Margaret Clitherow, and Anne Line, martyrs

31 Aidan, bishop of Lindisfarne

31 Cuthbert, bishop of Lindisfarne

31 David Pendleton Oakerhater

SEPTEMBER

1 David Pendleton Oakerhater

2 The Martyrs of New Guinea

3 Prudence Crandall, teacher and prophetic witness, 1890

3 Phoebe, deacon

4 Paul Jones, bishop

4 Albert Schweitzer, theologians and humanitarian, 1965

5 Katharina Zell, church reformer and writer

5 Gregorio Aglipay, priest and founder of the Philippine Independent Church,1940

6 Hannah More, religious writer and philanthropist, 1833

7 Kassiani, poet and hymnographer, 865

7 Elie Naud, Huguenot and witness to the faith, 1722

8 The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

8 Soren Kierkegaard, teacher and philosopher, 1855

8 Nikolai Grundtvig, bishop and hymn writer

9 Constance, and her companion [Thecla, Ruth, Frances, Charles Parsons, and Louis Schuyler], 1878

10 Alexander Crummell

11 Harry Thacker Burleigh, composer, 1949

12 Harry Thacker Burleigh, composer, 1949

12 John Henry Hobart

13 Cyprian, bishop and martyr

14 HOLY CROSS DAY

14 Cyprian

15 Cyprian

15 Catherine of Genoa

15 James Chisholm

16 Ninian

17 Hildegard [of Bingen]

18 Edward Bouverie Pusey

18 Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjold, public servant, 1961

19 Theodore of Tarsus

20 John Coleridge Patteson and his Companions

21 SAINT MATTHEW, APOSTLE AND EVANGELIST

22 Philander Chase, Bishop of Ohio and Illinois

23 Thecla of Iconium

24 Anna Ellison Butler Alexander, deaconess and teacher, 1947

26 Lancelot Andrewes

25 Sergius, abbot of Holy Trinity, Moscow, 1392

26 Euphrosyne/Smaragdus of Alexandria, monastic of the 5th century

26 Wilson Carlile, priest, 1942

27 Vincent de Paul. Religious and prophetic witness, 1660

27 Thomas Traherne, priest, 1674

28 Richard Rolle, Walter Hilton, and Margery Kempe

28 Paula and Eustochium of Rome

29 SAINT MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS

30 Jerome

OCTOBER

1 Remigius of Rheims

1 Therese of Lisieux

2

3 John Raleigh Mott, ecumenist and missionary, 1955

4 Francis of Assisi

6 William Tyndale, Miles Coverdale, translators of the Bible

6. Henrietta Stockdale, monastic and nurse, 1911

7 Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, Lutheran Pastor in North America, 1787

7 Birgitta of Sweden, 1373

8 William Dwight Porter Bliss, 1926

8 Richard Theodore Ely, economist, 1943

8 Thais of Alexandria, monastic, 5th century

9 Vida Dutton Scudder

9 Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, medical missionary, 1940

9 Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, 1253

9 William Carey, missionary, 1834

10 Vida Dutton Scudder

11 Philip, deacon and evangelist

12 Elizabeth Fry, social reformer, 1845

13

14 Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky [and Channing Moore Williams]

15 Teresa of Avila

16 Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley, [and Thomas Cranmer]

17 Ignatius, bishop of Antioch and Martyr

18 SAINT LUKE THE EVANGELIST

19 Henry Martyn, missionary to India and Persia

20

21

22

23 SAINT JAMES OF JERUSALEM, BROTHER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST

24 Hiram Hisanori Kano, priest, 1986

25 Tabitha (Dorcas) of Joppa

26 Elizabeth Cady Stanton

26 Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxon, 899

27

28 SAINT SIMON AND SAINT JUDE

29 James Hannington, and his Companions, martyrs, 1885

30 Maryam of Qidun

30 John Wycliffe

31 Paul Shingi Sasaki, bishop of Mid-Japan and Tokyo, 1946

31 Philip Lindel Tsen, Bishop of Honan, China, 1954

NOVEMBER

1 ALL SAINTS

2 [All Souls] All the Faithful Departed

3 Richard Hooker

3 Martin de Porres, monastic, 1639

4

5

6 William Temple

7 Willibrord, Archbishop of Utrecht, Missionary to Fresia, 739

8 Elizabeth of the Trinity, mystic, 1906

8 Ammonius, hermit, 4th century

9

10 Leo of Rome

11 Martin of Tours

11 Lili'uokalani of Hawaii, Queen and hymnographer, 1917

12 Charles Simeon

13

14 The Consecration of Samuel Seabury

14 Gregory Palamas, bishop and mystic, 1369

15 Francis Asbury and George Whitefield

16 Margaret of Scotland

17 Elizabeth of Hungary

17 Hugh of Lincoln, Robert Grosseteste

18 Hilda of Whitby

19 Elizabeth of Hungary

19 Mechthilde of Hackeborn and Gertrude the Great

20 Edmund

21 William Byrd, John Merbecke, and Thomas Tallis, musicians

22 Clive Staples Lewis

22 Cecelia of Rome

23 Clement of Rome

24 Catherine of Alexandria, Barbara of Nicomedia, and Margaret of Antioch, martyrs c. 305

25 James Otis Sargent Huntington, monastic and priest, 1935

26 Sojourner Truth

26 Isaac Watts, 1748

27

28 Kamehameha and Emma of Hawaii

29 Dorothy Day, activist, contemplative and writer, 1980

30 SAINT ANDREW THE APOSTLE

DECEMBER

1 Nicholas Ferrar

1 Charles de Foucauld, monastic and martyr

2 Nicholas Ferrar

2 Channing Moore Williams

3 Francis Xavier

4 John of Damascus

5 Clement of Alexandria

6 Nicholas of Myra

7 Ambrose, bishop of Milan, 397

8 Richard Baxter, pastor and writer, 1691

8 William West Skiles, deacon and missionary, 1862

9 Atilano Coco, priest, 1936

10 Karl Barth, pastor and theologians, 1968

10 Thomas Merton, contemplative and writer, 1968

11

12 Francis de Sales and Jane de Chantal

13 Lucy of Syracuse

13 Ella Baker, reformer, 1986

13 Samuel Johnson, priest, 1772

14 John of the Cross

14 Elizabeth Evelyn Wright, educator, 1906

15 Nino of Georgia

15 John Horden Bishop and Missionary in Canada, 1893

15 Robert McDonald, priest, 1913

16 Ralph Adams Cram, 1942, Richard Upjohn, 1878, architects, John La Farge, artist, 1910

17 Dorothy L Sayers, apologist and spiritual writer, 1957

17 Olympias, deaconess, 408

17 William Lloyd Garrison, 1879, Maria Stewart, 1879, prophetic witnesses

18

19 Lillian Trasher, missionary in Egypt, 1961

19 Samthann, monastic, 739

20 Katharina von Bora, church reformer, 1552

21 SAINT THOMAS THE APOSTLE

22 Henry Budd, priest, 1875

22 Charlotte Diggs (Lottie) Moon, Missionary in China, 1920

22 Ruth Elaine Younger, monastic, 1986

23

24

25 THE NATIVITY OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST

26 SAINT STEPHEN, DEACON AND MARTYR

27 SAINT JOHN, APOSTLE AND EVANGELIST

27 Fabiola of Rome, nurse and benefactor, 399

28 HOLY INNOCENTS

29 Thomas Becket

30 Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906

Deputy Halt of Springfield moved to refer the resolution to the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music.

Deputy Carroll of Oklahoma moved to end debate on the motion.

Motion carried

Debate terminated

A vote was taken on the motion to refer.

Motion defeated

Deputy Logue of Georgia moved to amend the resolution.

Proposed Amendment:

Delete the second and third resolve clauses, as well as the calendar compilation. In addition, in the first resolve clause, delete "direct the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music to further revise the document known as Proposed Lesser Feasts and Fasts 2018 so as to eliminate the distinction between “Lesser Feasts and Fasts” and “Supplemental/Local Feasts,” providing propers and biographical information for all commemorations, and listing them upon a single calendar, and submit the revised document to the 80th General Convention; and be it further" and replace it with "authorize for optional use throughout this Church the proposed Lesser Feasts and Fasts 2018 as published in the report to this convention of the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music; and be it further.". In addition, add a resolve clause following the first resolve clause, to read: "Resolved, That General Convention direct the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music to appoint a person or persons to solicit and collect broad feedback from the Church with respect to this volume, and to utilize that feedback to bring any suggested revisions before the 80th General convention in 2021.".

Deputy Castellan of West Missouri inquired as to whether the amendment was in order, as it referenced a calendar not approved by this General Convention.

The President moved to suspend the rules to postpone consideration on Resolution A065 until the afternoon's legislative session.

Motion carried

Consideration postponed

[Ed. Note: Debate resumed on Resolution A065 later on the afternoon of July 12, 2018 (Day 8).]

House of Deputies

The House continued consideration of resolution A065.

Proposed Amendment:

In terms of the Logue amendment, the Parliamentarian moved the following changes in wording to maintain the intention of the amendment while also keeping it in compliance with the Constitution of The Episcopal Church:

In the first paragraph: "authorize for trial use throughout this Church pursuant to Article X(b) of the Constitution the calendar in the proposed Lesser Feasts and Fasts 2018 as published in the report to this convention of the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music; and be it further" and in the third paragraph: "Resolved, That the General Convention authorize, for trial use until the 2021 General Convention, the commemorations proposed by this Convention, with the propers found in Lesser Feasts and Fasts 2018 as published in the report, and be it further".

Motion carried

Debate on the Logue amendment as amended continued.

Deputy Garner of Alabama moved to end debate on the amendment.

Motion carried

Debate terminated

A vote was taken on the amendment.

Deputy Hart of Pennsylvania requested an electronic vote on the Logue amendment.

An electronic vote was taken on the Logue amendment, resulting in 577 yes votes and 237 no votes.

Motion carried

Amendment adopted as amended

Deputy Spahr of Maine moved to end debate on the resolution.

Motion carried

Debate terminated

Ballot #7 - Vote by Orders

A Vote by Orders was taken on Resolution A065.

Ballot #7 taken by orders

Results of Ballot #7: Vote By Orders of Resolution A065

The Secretary read the results of Ballot #7.

TypeTotalNecessaryYesNoDividedNo+DividedResult
Lay:110569315116Yes
Clergy:110569311516Yes

Motion carried

Substitute resolution adopted with amendment

(Communicated to the House of Bishops in HD Message #359)

House of Bishops

The House of Bishops Committee on Prayer Book, Liturgy and Music presented its Report #32 on HD Message #359 on Resolution A065 (Authorize Lesser Feasts and Fasts 2018) and moved adoption with amendment.

Committee Amendment:

1 Resolved, the House of Bishops concurring, that the 79th General Convention authorize for trial use throughout this Church pursuant to Article X(b) of the Constitution the calendar in the proposed Lesser Feasts and Fasts 2018 as published in the report to this convention of the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music, and be it further

2 Resolved, That the General Convention authorize, for trial use until the 2021 General Convention, the commemorations proposed by this Convention, with the propers found in Lesser Feasts and Fasts 2018 as published in the report, and be it further

3 Resolved, That General Convention direct the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music to appoint a person or persons to solicit and collect broad feedback from the Church with respect to this volume, and to utilize that feedback to bring any suggested revisions before the 80th General convention in 2021.

Resolved, the House of Deputies concurring, that the 79th General Convention authorize the continued use of Lesser Feasts and Fasts 2006 and Great Cloud of Witnesses 2015 for the 2018-2021 triennium; and be it further

Resolved, that the new commemorations recommended by the SCLM in the Proposed Lesser Feasts and Fasts 2018 (first reading); be included in the calendar for the 2018-2021 triennium; and be it further

Resolved, that the SCLM provide the 80th General Convention with a clear and unambiguous plan for a singular calendar of Lesser Feasts and Fasts.

Proposed Amendment PFA0167

The Rt. Rev. J. Neil Alexander, Resigned, moved to amend the resolution with floor amendment 0167.

Resolved, the House of Deputies concurring, that the 79th General Convention authorize the continued use of Lesser Feasts and Fasts 2006 and Great Cloud of Witnesses 2015 for the 2018-2021 triennium; and be it further

Resolved, that the new commemorations recommended by the SCLM in the Proposed Lesser Feasts and Fasts 2018 (first reading);be included in the calendar for the 2018-2021 triennium; and be it further

Resolved that the SCLM provide the 80th General Convention with a clear and unambiguous plan for a singular calendar of lesser feasts and fasts.

Motion carried

Amendment adopted

A vote was taken on Resolution A065 as amended.

Motion carried

Resolution adopted with amendment

(Communicated to the House of Deputies in HB Message #398)

[Ed. Note: Resolution A065 was reconsidered later on July 13, 2018 (Day 9).]

House of Bishops

The Rt. Rev J. Neil Alexander, chair of the House of Bishops Committee on Prayer Book, Liturgy and Music, motioned to reconsider resolution A065 (Authorize Lesser Feasts and Fasts 2018).

Motion carried

Resolution reconsidered

The Rt. Rev J. Neil Alexander, chair of the House of Bishops Committee on Prayer Book, Liturgy and Music, proposed a floor amendment to resolution A065.

Proposed Floor Amendment PFA0168:

1 Resolved that, the House of Bishops concurring, the 79th General Convention authorize for trial use throughout this Church pursuant to Article X(b) of the Constitution the calendar in the proposed Lesser Feasts and Fasts 2018 as published in the report to this convention of the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music, and be it further

Resolved, the House of Deputies concurring, that the 79th General Convention authorize the continued use of Lesser Feasts and Fasts 2006 and ; and be it further

Resolved, that the 79th General Convention commend the continued availability of Great Cloud of Witnesses 2015 for the 2018-2021 triennium; and be it further

Resolved, that the new commemorations recommended by the SCLM in the Proposed Lesser Feasts and Fasts 2018 (first reading) proposed by the SCLM be authorized for trial use and ; be included in the calendar for the 2018-2021 triennium, under Article X(b); and be it further

Resolved that the SCLM provide the 80th General Convention with a clear and unambiguous plan for a singular calendar of Lesser Feasts and Fasts.

[Ed. Note: Floor Amendment 0168 was edited with underlines to show what was amended from the committee amendment of resolution A065 seen earlier in the HB day 9 minutes. ]

A vote was taken on the amendment.

Motion carried

Amendment adopted

A vote was taken on Resolution A065.

Motion carried

Resolution adopted with amendment

(Communicated to the House of Deputies in HB Message #422)

House of Deputies

The House of Deputies Committee on Prayer Book, Liturgy and Music presented its Report #27 on HB Message #422 on Resolution A065 (Authorize Lesser Feasts and Fasts 2018) and moved concurrence.

Deputy Fleener of Western Michigan pointed out that the vote on Resolution A065 should have been a vote by orders.

Ballot #9 - Vote by Orders

A Vote by Orders was taken on Resolution A065.

Ballot #9 taken by orders

Results of Ballot #9: Vote By Orders of Resolution A065

The President read the results of Ballot #9.

TypeTotalNecessaryYesNoDividedNo+DividedResult
Lay:11056104213Yes
Clergy:11056104202Yes

Motion carried

The House concurred

(Communicated to the House of Bishops in HD Message #403)

Resolution Concurred by Both Houses, July 13.

Report Reference:   SCLM Sub-committee on the Church Calendar, Reports to the 79th General Convention, 2018, pp. 159-170
Abstract:   The 79th General Convention reauthorizes Lesser Feasts and Fasts 2006 and trial use of new commemorations in Lesser Feasts and Fasts 2018; commends availability of Great Cloud of Witnesses; and directs the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music to provide a clear plan for a single Lesser Feasts and Fasts calendar.
Notes:  

Resolution 2018-A065 was brought before the House of Bishops on day 11 (report #5) but was withdrawn by the Committee. Subsequently, the House of Deputies initiated action on the resolution.