(xiv) Reciprocal Intercommunion
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- Date
- 1968 October 20-24
- Source
- House of Bishops. Minutes
- Type
- Resolution
- Mover
- Bishop of Ontario
- Seconder
- Archbishop of New Westminster
- Prologue
- The Bishop of Ontario, Chairman of a Committee of the House on Reciprocal Communion presented a report which contained the following recommendations:
- (1) That Lambeth Resolutions No. 46 and 47 should be accepted by the House of Bishops, and recommended to the General Synod for adoption.
- (2) That until they are adopted by General Synod, reciprocal attendance at services of Holy Communion should be permitted and encouraged, but that Communion should be spiritual and non-participating only.
- (3) That when Reciprocal Intercommunion is adopted by General Synod the phrase "under the general direction of the Bishop" should be taken to mean that Bishops will act in a more or less uniform way, under guidelines agreed to by the House of Bishops, for example -
- - (a) That while not excluding simple celebrations of the Holy Communion, concelebration should be encouraged.
- - (b) That celebrations should be held largely for Diocesan, Presbyterial, or Deanery congregations, or at joint meetings of Groups working to promote unity, and not at Parochial level.
- - (c) That there should be no acts of reciprocal communion without the express permission of the Bishop and the Chairman of Presbytery.
- - (d) That the laity should be involved in the arrangements for services of Reciprocal Intercommunion, and that a real place should be found for them in the liturgy.
- Text of motion
- "That the report of the Committee on Reciprocal Intercommunion be accepted."
- Notes
- [Text of 1968 Lambeth Conference Resolution 46: Relations with Other Churches - Anglicans Communicating in other than Anglican Churches
- The Conference recommends that, while it is the general practice of the Church that Anglican communicants receive the Holy Communion at the hands of ordained ministers of their own Church or of Churches in communion therewith, nevertheless under the general direction of the bishop, to meet special pastoral need, such communicants be free to attend the Eucharist in other Churches holding the apostolic faith as contained in the Scriptures and summarised in the Apostles' and Nicene Creeds, and as conscience dictates to receive the sacrament, when they know they are welcome to do so.
- Text of 1968 Lambeth Conference Resolution 47: Relations with Other Churches - Reciprocal Acts of Intercommunion
- The Conference recommends that, where there is agreement between an Anglican Church and some other Church or Churches to seek unity in a way which includes agreement on apostolic faith and order, and where that agreement to seek unity has found expression, whether in a covenant to unite or in some other appropriate form, a Church of the Anglican Communion should be free to allow reciprocal acts of intercommunion under the general direction of the bishop; each province concerned to determine when the negotiations for union in which it is engaged have reached the stage which allows this intercommunion.]
- Subjects
- Anglican Church of Canada. House of Bishops. Committee on Reciprocal Intercommunion
- Intercommunion - Anglican Church of Canada
- Intercommunion - Anglican Communion
- Lord's Supper and Christian union
- Lambeth Conference, 1968 - Resolutions