Details of Amendments to Common Worship Calendar and Lectionary etc
Page numbers refer to the main volume, Common Worship Services and Prayers for the Church of England (2000).
In the left hand Text column below I have reproduced extracts from the pages
affected; deleted text is struck
through and added text is underlined.
In the right hand Commentary column, text in double quotes (" ") is taken from GS1520 (Report by the Liturgical Commission - not available online). Other text is this column is mine.
Common Worship Text |
Commentary |
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[page 2] … Epiphany … |
"35. The Festival of the Baptism of Christ is normally celebrated on the First Sunday of Epiphany. In the Roman Catholic Church, when the Epiphany falls on a Sunday, the Baptism is celebrated on the following Sunday (13 January). However no such provision was made in the Common Worship rubrics, and as a result, if the Epiphany falls on a Sunday, the Baptism of Christ must at present be transferred to the Monday. If the Epiphany is a Sunday, the following Sunday is the Second Sunday of Epiphany. The Liturgical Commission believes that the festival of the Baptism of Christ should normally be celebrated on a Sunday, even in years when 6 January is a Sunday." See also the amendments on pages 383, 384, 456, 457, 528 and 529. |
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[page 10] June … |
"41. In the Common Worship calendar, 3 June is the Commemoration of 'The Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 and 1978'. However these dates have been questioned. Although most of the martyrs died in 1886, four (three Anglicans and one Roman Catholic) died in 1885 (in addition to Bishop James Hannington, who is commemorated on 29 October) and one (a Roman Catholic) in 1887. Also, Archbishop Luwum (who is commemorated on 17 February) and Bishop John Waiskye died in 1977, not 1978. [This amendment] therefore corrects the dates to '1885-7 and 1977'. |
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[page 381] … The First Sunday of Christmas 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. This provision is not used on weekdays after 5 January. Collect |
"31. [This amendment and the one on page 382] make it clear that when Christmas Day falls on a Sunday and, by local decision, the Naming and Circumcision of Jesus is transferred to Monday 2 January, Sunday 1 January is the Second Sunday of Christmas, but provide that in those circumstances the liturgical provision for the First Sunday of Christmas should be used on 1 January." |
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[page 382] Post Communion The Second Sunday of Christmas 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. This provision is not used on weekdays after 5 January. Collect Post Communion |
See page 381. |
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[page 383] Epiphany 6 January The Epiphany Collect Post Communion The Baptism of Christ Collect |
See page 2. |
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[page 384] Post Communion The Second Sunday of Epiphany Collect Post Communion |
See page 2. |
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[page 454] … The First Sunday of Christmas 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. This provision is not used on weekdays after 5 January. Collect |
This amendment is consequential to that to page 381. |
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[page 455] Post Communion The Second Sunday of Christmas 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. This provision is not used on weekdays after 5 January. Collect Post Communion |
This amendment is consequential to that to page 382. |
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[page 456] Epiphany 6 January The Epiphany Collect Post Communion The Baptism of Christ Collect |
See page 2. |
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[page 457] Post Communion The Second Sunday of Epiphany Collect Post Communion |
See page 2. |
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[page 527] … Except in the case of Christmas Day and Easter Day, the celebration of the Feast begins with Evening Prayer on the day before the Feast, and the Collect at that Evening Prayer is that of the Feast. In the case of Christmas Eve and Easter Eve, there is proper liturgical provision, including a Collect, for the Eve, and this is used at both Morning and Evening Prayer. The Presentation of Christ in the Temple (Candlemas) is celebrated either on 2 February or on the Sunday falling between 28 January and 3 February. … |
Before this amendment Epiphany could be celebrated on the previous Sunday if 6 January is a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday, but not if it is a Friday or Saturday. The Liturgical Commission recommended, and Synod agreed, that it should always be possible, for pastoral reasons, to celebrate the Epiphany on a Sunday. The particular range (2 to 8 January) was chosen to reflect current practice and to avoid having different churches transferring to different Sundays. |
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[page 528] Festivals |
See page 2. |
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[page 529] Festivals falling on a Sunday are to be kept on that day or transferred to the Monday (or, at the discretion of the minister, to the next suitable weekday). But a Festival may not be celebrated on Sundays in Advent, Lent or Eastertide. Festivals coinciding with a Principal Feast or Principal Holy Day are transferred to the first available day. When St Joseph’s Day falls between Palm Sunday and the Second Sunday of Easter inclusive, it is transferred to the Monday after the Second Sunday of Easter or, if the Annunciation has already been moved to that date, to the first available day thereafter. … |
See page 2. |
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[page 530] Lesser Festivals Lesser Festivals, which are listed in the Calendar, are observed at the level appropriate to a particular church. Each is provided with a Collect, Psalm and Readings, which may supersede the Collect of the week and the daily eucharistic lectionary. The daily Psalms and Readings at Morning and Evening Prayer are not usually superseded by those for Lesser Festivals, but at the minister’s discretion Psalms and Readings provided on these days for the Holy Communion may be used at Morning and Evening Prayer. The minister may be selective in the Lesser Festivals that are observed, and may also keep some or all of them as commemorations. When a Lesser Festival falls on a Principal Feast or Holy Day 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. |
"29. [The first amendment on this page] gives force to the convention that Lesser Festivals should not be observed on Sundays and (as when they fall on Principal Feasts, Holy Days and Festivals) should normally lapse, though they may be transferred 'where there is sufficient reason'. It also provides that Lesser Festivals should not be celebrated between Palm Sunday and the Second Sunday of Easter." "30. [The second amendment] makes explicit, with regard to the transference of All Souls' Day, what will be implicit in the rules once they are amended by the above item." |
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[page 540] 6 When there are only two readings at the principal service and that service is Holy Communion, the second reading is always the Gospel reading. If there are only two readings at the principal service on Easter Day, the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth or Seventh Sunday of Easter, Ascension Day, Pentecost, the Conversion of Paul or the Festivals of Matthias, Barnabas, James and Stephen, the reading from the Acts of the Apostles must always be used. … |
This amendment corrects the anomaly that the reading from Acts set at the Principal Service was compulsory on Ascension Day and Pentecost, but not on the Sundays of Easter. |
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[page 544] … The First Sunday of Christmas 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. … |
This amendment is consequential to that to page 381. |
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[page 545] The Second Sunday of Christmas 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. … |
This amendment is consequential to that to page 382. |
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[page 546] The Baptism of Christ The First Sunday of Epiphany … The Second Sunday of Epiphany … |
"37. Provision needs to be made for the readings to be used on the Sundays of Epiphany in years in which 6 January is a Sunday. It is clear that, as in those years, everyone will keep the Baptism of Christ on 13 January (the Second Sunday of Epiphany), the readings for the Baptism of Christ should be used on that day. [The first amendment on page 546] provides for this." "38. [The amendments on pages 546 to 549] 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." At revision stage it became clear that this latter problem persists through the period of Ordinary Time before Lent and the amendments were extended appropriately. |
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[page 547] The Third Sunday of Epiphany … The Fourth Sunday of Epiphany … |
See page 546 (item 38). |
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[page 548] The Presentation of Christ in the Temple … Proper 1 … |
See page 546 (item 38). |
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[page 549] Proper 2 … Proper 3 … |
See page 546 (item 38). |
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[page 554] …
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"39. It is apparent that 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.) [The amendments on pages 554 to 556] provide for the readings concerned to be used in the morning and evening as intended." Some further re-arrangements of the readings for Good Friday were made at revision stage. |
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[page 555]
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See page 554. |
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[page 556]
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See page 554. |
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| [page 558] Easter Day Year A Year B Year C … |
See page 540. |
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[page 559] The Second Sunday of Easter Year A Year B Year C … The Third Sunday of Easter Year A Year B Year C …
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See page 540. |
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[page 560] The Fourth Sunday of Easter Year A Year B Year C … The Fifth Sunday of Easter Year A Year B Year C … |
See page 540. |
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[page 561] The Sixth Sunday of Easter Year A Year B Year C … |
See page 540. |
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[page 562] The Seventh Sunday of Easter Year A Year B Year C … |
See page 540. This amendment is not included in GS 1520A, although it is clearly intended to be made. |
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[page 576] All Saints’ Day 1 November …
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This amendment was added at revision stage following a suggestion from a parish that the longer reading was more appropriate. |
Peter Owen
6 January 2006