Word: draft
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...something has happened to stir that serenity. Within the last few months the University, under the direction of Russell E. Hill, director of the Real Estate Department, has drawn up a draft for the "Proposed Married Student Housing Renovation Program...
Hill cautions the residents that their fears may be premature--that the proposal is only in the draft stage, and will be submitted to the residents for discussion...
...biggest change is the draft's provision for alternative versions of the central rites of the church: the Holy Eucharist, Daily Morning and Evening Prayer, and the Burial of the Dead. The first version, called Rite One, remains fairly close to the 1928 Prayer Book, though in many instances the language has been simplified. Rite Two differs sharply in phrase and form from the old services. God is no longer addressed as "Thou" or "Thee" but familiarly as "You." In the Lord's Prayer, "And lead us not into temptation" is rendered flatly as "Save us from...
...proposed draft provides for three separate marriage services. In the first and more traditional Celebration and Blessing of a Marriage, the minister's charge to the couple makes no mention of "the dreadful day of judgment." The second is a shorter, simplified civil service, and the third version is a free-form "order for marriage" that allows couples and priests virtually to write their own ceremonies in accordance with the canons of the church. No mention is made of the ancient admonition: "Those whom God hath joined together let no one put asunder...
...language is often the typically bland product of committees. And though the liturgical commission denies any doctrinal shift, the draft softens some of the gloomier theologizing of the Anglican past. "The 1928 version is overloaded with sin and penitence," says Canon Charles Guilbert, 67, custodian of the Standard Book of Common Prayer and secretary of the liturgical commission. "The old Communion didn't really accept forgiveness. We trust God. We trust that if we confess, he will forgive...