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Resources for Marriage in the Episcopal Church

MARRIAGE RITES

The 78th General Convention of the Episcopal Church authorized two new marriage liturgies that can be used for all couples, gay and straigt as well as a blessing liturgy to be used in countries where same-sex marriage is not yet legal.

You can find the rites in this Word document. 
The document contains three liturgies.  The Witness and Blessing of a Lifelong Covenant is the blessing rite. 
The Witness and Blessing of a Marriage is a newer rite based on the blessing rite approved in 2012. 
The Celebration and Blessing of a Marriage (2) is based on the traditional rite found in the 1979 Book of Common Prayer.

Church Publishing has just published the new rites and other materials in this book:  "LITURGICAL RESOURCES 1, REVISED AND EXPANDED."

 

NEW MARRIAGE CANONS 

Canons I.18-19

 STUDY RESOURCES

    From the Task Force on the Study of Marriage

Contents and Introduction

Essay 1 Biblical and Theological Framework

Essay 2 Christian Marriage as Vocation

Essay 3 A History of Christian Marriage

Essay 4 Marriage as a Rite of Passage

Essay 5 The Marriage Canon History and Critique

Essay 6 Agents of the State a Question for Discernment

Essay 7 Changing Trends and Norms in Marriages

Toolkit for the Study of Marriage

 

    From the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music

SCLM Essays and Responses

SCLM Resources for Preparing Couples

SCLM Discussion Guide

 

WHAT ABOUT THE BIBLE?

    Video from my lecture "Jesus and the Gays"

 

GENERAL CONVENTION RESOLUTIONS

A036 Amend Canon 1.18 Marriage

A054 Adopt Resources and Rites

A037 Continue Work of Task Force on Marriage

 

VIDEO OF GENERAL CONVENTION DEBATE

 

 

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