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Additional Texts for Holy Baptism (GS 1958)

on Sunday, 13 July 2014 at 8.54 pm by Simon Kershaw
categorised as liturgical texts, liturgy

Updated with press reports

The addi­tion­al texts for bap­tism were con­sidered by the Gen­er­al Syn­od, meet­ing at York, on Sunday after­noon, and sent to a revi­sion com­mit­tee, which is the nor­mal pro­cess. The offi­cial report records that:

Drafts for First Con­sid­er­a­tion intro­duced by the House of Bishops

The Chair of the Steer­ing Com­mit­tee, the Bish­op of Sod­or and Man, moved:

‘That the litur­gic­al busi­ness entitled “Addi­tion­al texts for Holy Bap­tism” be con­sidered for revi­sion in committee.’

The motion was approved by the Synod.

Press reports

There is cov­er­age of this in some of Monday’s papers:

• The Times has a story head­lined Dev­il demoted to ‘car­toon-like char­ac­ter’ (most of the story is behind the Times’s paywall)

• In the Tele­graph Philip Almond expresses his opin­ion on the role of the Dev­il: Giv­ing the Dev­il his Due