Comments on: The Prayer Book, Memorialization, and Communion Across Difference, Part III https://livingchurch.org/covenant/the-prayer-book-memorialization-and-communion-across-difference-part-iii/ Sat, 24 Aug 2024 12:48:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 By: Matthew S.C. Olver https://livingchurch.org/covenant/the-prayer-book-memorialization-and-communion-across-difference-part-iii/#comment-12039 Sat, 24 Aug 2024 12:48:39 +0000 https://livingchurch.org/?p=79846#comment-12039 Thanks, Fr Crumb. In both the canonical and constitutional revision, memorialization is defined in this way: “Any Book of Common Prayer, or portions thereof, memorialized by the General Convention, is authorized for use at any service in all the Dioceses and other jurisdictions of this Church.” In other words, “memorialization” means at least “authorized for use at any service in all the Dioceses and other jurisdictions of this Church.”

B008 states: “Any Book of Common Prayer memorialized by the General Convention is authorized for regular use at any service in all dioceses of this Church. The content of any memorialized Book is understood to be the version in use at the time of memorialization.” I think the plain sense of this is that the General Convention needs to act specifically to memorialize a BCP. I don’t think that previous books would be grandfathered in. However, the next subsection states: “The liturgies from any other Book of Common Prayer that has been authorized previously by the authority in this Church shall be available for use for Sunday worship and for other occasions with the permission of the bishop with ecclesiastical authority.” Thus, with a bishop’s permission, any previous American BCP can be used.

Hope that helps!

]]> By: lcrumb@uoregon.edu https://livingchurch.org/covenant/the-prayer-book-memorialization-and-communion-across-difference-part-iii/#comment-12002 Fri, 23 Aug 2024 22:24:56 +0000 https://livingchurch.org/?p=79846#comment-12002 I don’t find a definition of memorialization at either of the links provided. If it remains undefined, could the American prayer books of 1789, 1892, and 1928 be considered to have been memorialized and thus available for use?

]]> By: John Alvarez https://livingchurch.org/covenant/the-prayer-book-memorialization-and-communion-across-difference-part-iii/#comment-10432 Wed, 14 Aug 2024 18:33:58 +0000 https://livingchurch.org/?p=79846#comment-10432 On the topic of pagination, could it be possible to have the “traditional” marriage rite noted as being pages “422-I, 423-I…” and the updated marriage rite pages to be “422-II, 423-II…” and so on to ensure any additional pages need not interfere with daily worship if someone has an older or newer BCP?

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