RESOLUTION IL Resolced: That the following changes be made in THE INTRODUCTORY PORTION of the Book of Common Prayer, and that the proposed alterations be made known to the several Dioceses, in order that they may be severally adopted in the next General Convention in accordance with the provisions of Article VIII of the Constitution. (a) Conform the entries in the Table of Contents to the actual contents, as the same shall be finally determined. (b) Substitute for The Order how the Psalter is appointed to be read, and for The Order how the rest of the Holy Scripture is appointed to be read, the general order Concerning the Service of the Church, including an enlarged Table of Proper Psalms and a Table of Selections of Psalms, as follows: CONCERNING THE SERVICE OF THE CHURCH. THE MEC Order for Morning Prayer, the Litany, and the Order for the Adpendent Services, and may be used either separately or together; Provided That no one of these Services be habitually disused. The Litany may be used either in place of the Prayers that follow the Collect for tirace in the Order for Morning Prayer, or in place of the Prayers that follow the Collect for Aid against Perils in the Order for Evening Prayer, On any day when Morning and Evening Prayer shall have been said, or are to be said in Church, the Minister may, at any other Service, with or without a Mormon or Lecture, use such devotions as he shall at his discretion acdeet from this Book, subject to the direction of the Ordinary. For days of Fasting and Thanksgiving, appointed by the Civil or by the Reclesiastical Authority, and for other special occasions for which no SerView of Prayer hath been provided in this Book, the Bishop may set forth auch Form or Forms as he shall think fit, in which case the same shall be hed and none other. THE ORDER HOW THE PSALTER IS APPOINTED TO BE READ. THE Psalter shall be read through once every month, as it is there appointed, both for Morning and for Evening Prayer. And when a ויין month hath one-and-thirty days, it is ordered that the same Psalms shall be read on the last day of the said month which were read the day before. The Minister shall, on the days for which they are appointed, use the Proper Psalms, as set forth in the Table of Proper Psalms. But Note that, on other days, instead of reading from the Psalter as divided for Daily Morning and Evening Prayer, he may read one of the Selections set out by this Church. TABLE OF PROPER PSALMS ON CERTAIN DAYS. FIRST SUNDAY IN Morning. ADVENT. CHRISTMAS-DAY. CIRCUMCISION. EPIPHANY. PURIFICATION. ANNUNCIATION. 89 GOOD FRIDAY. 22, 40, 51 Evening. 8, 50 96, 97 19, 45, 85 89, 110, 132 40, 90 65, 103 46, 47, 48 72, 117, 135 20, 86, 87 84, 113, 134 ASH WEDNESDAY. 6, 32, 38 102, 130, 143 TRANSFIGURATION. 131, 132, 138 ST. MICHAEL'S. 69, 88 ALL SAINTS' DAY. EASTER-EVEN. EASTER-DAY. TRINITY SUNDAY. Note, That when he announceth the Proper Psalms, the Minister shall say, The Proper Psalms for (naming the Feast or Fast) are such, or Note, That when he announceth a Selection of Psalms the Minister shall say, The Psalms selected are such, or such: or, The Psalm selected is such a one: (giving the numbers, or number, as the case may be). THE ORDER HOW THE REST OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURE IS APPOINTED TO BE READ. THE Old is and Lessons at Morning and Evening Prayer THE Old Testament is appointed for the First Lessons, and the New throughout the Year. And to know what Lessons shall be read every day, look for the day of the month in the Calendar following, and there ye shall find the Chapters that shall be read for the Lessons both at Morning and at Evening Prayer; except only the Moveable Holy-days, which are not in the Calendar; and the Immoveable, where there is a blank left in the column of Lessons; the Proper Lessons for all which days are to be found in the Table of Proper Lessons. If in any Church, upon a Sunday or Holy-day, both Morning and Evening Prayer be not said, the Minister may read the Lessons appointed either for Morning or for Evening Prayer. At Evening Prayer on Sunday, the Minister may read the Lesson from the Gospels appointed for that Day of the Month, in place of the Second Lesson for the Sunday. Upon any Day for which no Proper Lessons are provided, the Lessons appointed in the Calendar for any Day in the same week may be read in place of the Lessons for the Day. On Days of Fasting and Thanksgiving, especially appointed, and on occasions of Ecclesiastical Conventions and of Charitable Collections, the Minister may appoint such Lessons as he shall think fit in his discretion. HYMNS AND ANTHEMS. HYMNS may be sung before and after every Office in this Book, and also before and after Sermons; but only such Hymns shall be used in this Church as are or may be duly set forth and allowed by the authority of the same; and Anthems only in the words either of Holy Scripture or of the Book of Common Prayer. (c) Add to the Calendar a Feast to be entitled, The Transfiguration of Christ, and assign the same to the sixth day of August. (d) Substitute for the present Tables of Lessons the Lectionary as adopted by the Convention, with amendments to provide for the Feast of the Transfiguration. The Lectionary, thus amended, will be as follows: TABLES OF LESSONS OF HOLY SCRIPTURE, TO BE READ AT MORNING AND EVENING PRAYER THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. Whitsun-day. -6 Zechariah- -3 Hebrews-4 v. 14 & 5 to v. 11 Deuteronomy-5 Hebrews-12 v. 14 Isaiah 10 v. 33 & 11 Acts Trinity Sunday. Genesis 1 & 2 to v. 4 Matthew -11 Thessalonians--3 -10 4 -19 to v. 11 3 Genesis -2 v. 41 John -5 After Trinity. 1 2 -8 v. 20 & 9 to v. 20 -9 to v. 32 -15 to v. 192 Timothy -2 10 -15 to v. 31 Exod. 5v.5 & 6 to v.9 -24 Numbers 18 Deut.-4 v. 25 to 41 -11 22 James -1 -21 -2 3 12 13 -6-19 v.27 & 20 to v.17 9v.9 -71 -23 *NOTE, That the Old Testament Lessons appointed for Easter-day may be interchanged, the one for the other, at the discretion of the Minister. NOTE ALSO, That the Lessons appointed in the above Table for the Twenty-seventh Sunday after Trinity shall always be read on the Sunday next before Advent. St. Andrew. St. Thomas. Nativity. St. Stephen. St. John. Holy Innocents. Circumcision. Numbers-10 v. 29 John-1 v. 29 to 43 Isaiah 49 v. 13 Mark 10 v. 13 to 28 Deuteronomy 10v.12 Colossians 2 Isaiah 49 to v. 14 Luke-3 v. 15 to 23 -5 Acts 22 to v. 22 Jeremiah-1 to v. 11 Acts —— -11 26 Haggai-2 to v. 10 1 John-3 to v. 9 Isaiah- -22 v. 15) -2 v. 15 Tuesday in St. Mark. Monday in Easter week. Isaiah 26 to v. 20 John-21 to v. 15 2 Kings 13 v. 14 to 22 John-21 v. 15 [v. 14 62 Mark-1 to v. 21 Ezekiel -1 to v. 15 Acts 12 v. 24 & 13 to Zechariah -4 Whitsun-week. Genesis-11 to v. 101 Corinthians 14v.20 Numbers 11 v. 16 to 1 Corinthians—12 Tuesday in -5 4 v. 23 Isaiah-40 to v. 12 Acts 13 v. 43 & 14 to -3 Malachi 3 v. 13 & 4 Matthew 14 to v. 13 21 Zechariah 3 Acts 4 v.8 to 23 2 Kings-1 to v. 17 Luke9 v. 46 Jeremiah 26 to v. 16 Mark-1 v. 14 to 40 Exodus 34 v. 29 2 Corinthians-3 Malachi-4 v. 2 Matthew 17 to v. 14 [v. 13 Genesis-23 v. 10 John All Saints. -1 v. 43 Deuteronomy 18v.15 1 Peter 1 v. 22 & 2 to [20 19 Luke 5 v. 27 1 Chronicles 29 to v. Mark-2 v. 13 [& 15 32 Acts-12 to v. 24 Daniel 10 v. 4 Revelation — 14 v. 6 [v. 15 Ecclesiasticus 38 to Luke-1 to v. 24 Isaiah -38 Acts1 to v. 15 and St. Jude. Isaiah-28 v. 9 to 19 John-11 v. 45 Jeremiah 3 v. 12 Jude |