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Calendar, Lectionary, Collects and Rules | |
| Amendments to the Common Worship Main Volume | ||
| The following amendments to the main volume, Common Worship: Services and Prayers for the Church of England (2000) were given Final Approval by the General Synod on 17 February 2005 and will be incorporated in future printings of the book. Meanwhile, they have been incorporated in the html files on this web site. (The pdf files continue to reflect the books as printed.) | ||
| Lesser Festivals | ||
| [Amendment 1 gives force to the convention that Lesser Festivals should not be celebrated on a Sunday and to the logic that they should not be celebrated during a period when Festivals may not be celebrated. Amendment 2 gives explicit authority for the transference of All Souls’ Day where it would otherwise lapse in accordance with the new provision in Amendment 1.] | ||
| Rules for Regulating Authorized Forms of Service | ||
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p. 530 after ‘When a Lesser Festival falls on a Principal Feast or Holy Day’, delete ‘or on a Festival’ and insert: ‘on a Festival, on a Sunday, or on weekdays between Palm Sunday and the Second Sunday of Easter’ |
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p. 530: at the end, insert:‘If the Commemoration of the Faithful Departed (All Souls’ Day) falls on a Sunday, it may be celebrated on Monday 3 November instead of the Lesser Festival of Richard Hooker.’ | |
| The Second Sunday of Christmas | ||
| [Following the logic that Sunday 25 December should be regarded as the First Sunday of Christmas, Amendments 3-4 provide for Sunday 1 January to be called the Second Sunday of Christmas (if the Naming and Circumcision of Jesus is transferred), without altering the Collect and readings for that Sunday.] | ||
| Collects and Lectionary | ||
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pp. 381, 454 and 544: after ‘The First Sunday of Christmas’, insert as a rubric: ‘When the Festival of the Naming and Circumcision of Jesus, falling on a Sunday, is transferred to Monday 2 January, the Sunday is kept as the Second Sunday of Christmas but this provision is used.’ |
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pp. 382, 455 and 545: after ‘The Second Sunday of Christmas’, insert as a rubric: ‘When the Festival of the Naming and Circumcision of Jesus, falling on a Sunday, is transferred to Monday 2 January, the Sunday is kept as the Second Sunday of Christmas but the provision for the First Sunday of Christmas is used.’ |
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| The Epiphany | ||
| [Amendment 5 allows the Epiphany to be celebrated on a Sunday in every year (rather than in most, but not all years, as before).] | ||
| Rules for Regulating Authorized Forms of Service | ||
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p. 527: delete ‘In any year when there is a Second Sunday of Christmas, the Epiphany (6 January) may, for pastoral reasons, be celebrated on that Sunday.’ and insert: ‘If the Epiphany (6 January) falls on a weekday it may, for pastoral reasons, be celebrated on the Sunday falling between 2 and 8 January inclusive.’ | |
| The Baptism of Christ | ||
| [Amendments 6-10 provide that the Baptism of Christ should normally be observed on the Sunday following 6 January every year, but that when 6 January is a Sunday, 13 January should be accounted the Second Sunday of Epiphany. However, if the Epiphany is itself celebrated on Sunday 7 January or Sunday 8 January, the Baptism of Christ is celebrated on the Monday.] | ||
| Calendar | ||
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p. 2: after ‘The Baptism of Christ – The First Sunday of Epiphany’, insert:‘(The Second Sunday of Epiphany when 6 January is a Sunday)’ | |
| Collects | ||
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pp 383 and 456: after ‘The First Sunday of Epiphany’, insert:‘(The Second Sunday of Epiphany when 6 January is a Sunday)’ |
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pp. 384 and 457: after ‘The Second Sunday of Epiphany’, insert:‘When 6 January is a Sunday this provision is replaced by that for the Baptism of Christ.’ | |
| Rules for Regulating Authorized Forms of Service | ||
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p. 528: after ‘(Epiphany 1 or, when 6 January is a Sunday,’ delete ‘on 7 January’ and insert ‘Epiphany 2’. | |
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p. 529: delete ‘The Baptism of Christ is transferred only when 6 January is a Sunday’ and insert ‘The Baptism of Christ is celebrated on the Second Sunday of Epiphany (13 January) when 6 January is a Sunday. If, for pastoral reasons, the Epiphany is celebrated on Sunday 7 or 8 January, The Baptism of Christ is transferred to Monday 8 or 9 January.’ | |
| The Baptism of Christ: Readings | ||
| [Amendment 11 follows the logic that Sunday 13 January would be the Second Sunday of Epiphany, but ensures that the readings for the Baptism of Christ are nevertheless read on that day.] | ||
| Lectionary | ||
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p. 546: after ‘The Baptism of Christ – The First Sunday of Epiphany’, insert: ‘The Second Sunday of Epiphany when 6 January is a Sunday’ | |
| The Sundays of Epiphany: Readings | ||
| [Amendments 12-17 are necessary in order to ensure that insofar as the Church of England’s lectionary uses the same readings and psalms as those in the Revised Common Lectionary during Epiphany, they are used on the same Sunday as in the RCL.] | ||
| Lectionary | ||
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p. 546: after ‘The Second Sunday of Epiphany’, insert: ‘When 6 January is a Sunday this provision is used on the Third Sunday of Epiphany.’ | |
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p. 547: after ‘The Third Sunday of Epiphany’, insert: ‘When 6 January is a Sunday this provision is used on the Fourth Sunday of Epiphany’ | |
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p. 547: after ‘The Fourth Sunday of Epiphany’, insert: ‘When 6 January is a Sunday this provision is used on Sunday 3 February.’ | |
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p. 548: delete ‘Sunday between 3 and 9 February inclusive’ and insert: ‘Sunday between 4 and 10 February inclusive’ | |
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p.549: delete ‘Sunday between 10 and 16 February inclusive’ and insert: ‘Sunday between 11 and 17 February inclusive’ | |
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p.549: delete ‘Sunday between 17 and 23 February inclusive’ and insert: ‘Sunday between 18 and 24 February inclusive’ | |
| Holy Week : Readings | ||
| [It is apparent that, except in the case of the Old Testament readings on Good Friday, the Second and Third Service lectionaries for the weekdays of Holy Week were designed with a view to the Second Service lectionary being used in the morning and the Third Service lectionary in the evening. (Otherwise, it is probably most common for the Second Service lectionary to be used in the evening.) Amendments 18-19 provide for the readings concerned to be used in the morning and evening as intended.] | ||
| Lectionary | ||
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pp. 554-556: On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of Holy Week, Maundy Thursday and Easter Eve: delete ‘Second Service’ and insert ‘Morning’,and delete ‘Third Service’ and insert ‘Evening’,delete ‘Evening Psalm’ and ‘Morning Psalms’ and allocate Psalms 42, 43 to Morning and Psalm 39 to Evening |
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p.556: On Good Friday: delete ‘Second Service’ and insert ‘Evening’, delete ‘Third Service’ and insert ‘Morning’, transpose ‘Genesis 22.1-18’ and ‘Lamentations 5.15-22’, delete ‘especially in the evening’, delete ‘Evening Psalms’ and ‘Morning Psalm’ and allocate Psalm 69 to Morning and Psalms 130, 143 to Evening. |
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| Sundays of Easter: Readings | ||
| [Amendments 20 and 21 require the use of a reading from Acts at Principal Services on the Sundays of Easter.] | ||
| Lectionary | ||
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p. 540: after ‘If there are only two readings at the principal service on’, insert: ‘Easter Day, the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth or Seventh Sunday of Easter,’ | |
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pp.558-562: under the column headings ‘Year A, Year B, Year C’, insert as a rubric: ‘The reading from Acts must be used as either the first or second reading.’ | |
| The Martyrs of Uganda | ||
| [Amendment 22 extends the reference to 1886 to cover all of the martyrdoms in the 1880s and corrects the date of those that occurred in 1977.] | ||
| Calendar | ||
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p. 10: on 3 June delete ‘1886 and 1978’ and insert ‘1885-7 and 1977’ | |
| All Saints Days: Readings | ||
| [Amendment 23 extends the Old Testament reading at the Third Service on All Saints’ Day to cover the whole of the chapter concerned.] | ||
| Lectionary | ||
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p.576: in the Third Service, delete ‘Isaiah 35.1-9 ’ and insert ‘Isaiah 35’ | |