DISPUTE ABOUT RITUAL

Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24271, 31 May 1944, Page 3

DISPUTE ABOUT RITUAL

♦ ANGLICAN DIOCESE OF BATttURST

PARISHIONERS SEEKING COURT DECISION (From Our Owri Correspondent.) SYDNEY, May 23, A church dispute involving the Angli'can Bishop of Bathurst, New South - Wa'es (the Rt Rev. A. L. Wylde', is to be dealt with in the Sydney Equity Court. The dispute, which arises out of the alleged use by the bishop of a book of prayer known as . The Holy Eucharist," is believed to be the nrsc . of its kind to come before law court in, rae S Cotirt is being asked by certain parishioners to restrain the bishop from departing from the order of .ministration of Holy Communion in Bathurst Cathedral, as set out in the Book of Common Prayer authorised in the reian of King Charles 1L Efforts are glsb being made to restrain the Church . Property *frust from permitting the use of “The Holy Eucharist,” or the Red Book,” as it is called, in Bathurst Cathedral or any church in the diocese. - Complaints'by parishioners include r the contention that “the Bed Book prescribes, the practice of the communicants making the sign of tbeCross, and there is also objection to the ringing of 4 Sanctus bell at. Communion. It is contended that these practices are illegal, according to church law. issues, Which concern both Hlg“ Church” and “Low Church” practices, make it a case of outstanding ecclesiastical importance. _ a Bishop Wylde has not .yet flights statement of defence. Tbe probably come up for heating m August, _