Wednesday evening - May 2, 1973 (eighth session)
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/official7702
- Date
- 1973 April 30 - May 2
- Source
- House of Bishops. Minutes
- Type
- Resolution
- Mover
- Bishop Maguire
- Seconder
- Bishop Somerville
- Text of motion
- "(1) that this General Synod, having considered the proposed Order for Holy Baptism, together with its appended forms for the Re-affirmation of Baptismal Vows, and for the Reception of persons from another Christian Denomination, requests the House of Bishops to give careful pastoral consideration to the effects of using this order on the life of our Church until the next General Synod, this consideration to include the possibility of carefully defined trial use as an alternative to the Forms of Service of Holy Baptism and Confirmation contained in the Book of common Prayer.
- "(2) And further, that this General synod intends, and requests the House of Bishops to declare, that where trial use is duly authorized, persons initiated by the said proposed Order of Holy Baptism shall be fully recognized as members of the Holy Catholic Church and admitted to Holy Communion, (unless ineligible for other cause), and that no supplementary act of Christian Initiation shall be deemed necessary.
- "(3) And further, to facilitate the convergence of our present and proposed practices, that this General Synod requests the House of Bishops to give, where necessary, dispensation from the last rubric at the end of the Order of Service of Confirmation in Book of Common Prayer." CARRIED
- Subjects
- Christian initiation - Anglican Church of Canada
- Baptism - Anglican Church of Canada
- Anglican Church of Canada - Reception of baptized Christians
- Confirmation - Anglican Church of Canada
- Lord's Supper - Admission to - Anglican Church of Canada