Resolution Number: | 2018-A065 |
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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. |
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Legislative History
Author: | Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music |
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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 On July 11th the HB Committee #12 report #5 was revoked in the legislative online system.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.
Type | Total | Necessary | Yes | No | Divided | No+Divided | Result |
Lay: | 110 | 56 | 93 | 15 | 1 | 16 | Yes |
Clergy: | 110 | 56 | 93 | 11 | 5 | 16 | Yes |
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.
Type | Total | Necessary | Yes | No | Divided | No+Divided | Result |
Lay: | 110 | 56 | 104 | 2 | 1 | 3 | Yes |
Clergy: | 110 | 56 | 104 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Yes |
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 |
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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. |