Abstract
The Liturgical Commissions of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession, the French Evangelical Lutheran Church, the Reformed Church of Alsace and Lorraine and of the French Reformed Church have together worked out this Liturgy.
These four Commissions met together for the first time in 1960 in order to compile one form for presentation to the National gatherings of each of the Churches represented, and on a second occasion to alter the text in the light of the modifications there suggested.
The National Synod at Valence (in 1961), when acquainted with the proposal, “approved both the principle expressed and the various parts”. It provided the Liturgical Commission with a certain number of modifications of which note was taken, by agreement with the other Commissions involved, in arriving at the commonly agreed text which is now published.
The Synod particularly emphasised this point: “Without wishing to insist from the outset on the nature and number of the officiants, the Synod does think it best that the laying-on-of-hands should be performed by two of them at least
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