The International Anglican Liturgical Consultation (IALC) has since
1985 brought together liturgists from around the worldwide Anglican
Communion to ref lect together on common issues, and to assist
their respective provinces to stay broadly in line with each other
in decades of liturgical revision and renewal. The Consultations
have been held in different parts of the world at two- or four-year
intervals, and have furthered their own purposes by agreeing
Statements on the themes they have considered. Thus they have
published groundbreaking Statements on inculturation of the
liturgy, on initiation, on the Eucharist, and on ordination.IALC-8,
meeting at Palermo in Sicily in 2007, worked on 'Rites surrounding
Death'. The 53 participants worked for the inside of a week, and
then reckoned that, although their drafting was very nearly
sufficiently worded for publication, yet it was in some need of
further re-touching and integrating. Thus the international
Steering Committee asked three scholars to edit the draft, and
this, when completed, became in principle the Palermo Statement.
As, however, the original Consultation could not be convened to
agree it, and as the next two Consultations had other urgent tasks
to address, the Steering Committee then commissioned Trevor Lloyd,
one of the three editors, to take responsibility for the further
editorial work of bringing the Statement to publication with an
Introduction and Commentary. This Study thus presents his work in
fulfilling this charge. The Statement itself is strongly pastoral
in its style, for the participants at Palermo recognized from the
outset the extraordinary combination of requirements in a Christian
funeral - objectively setting out Christ's victory over death, yet
sensitively meeting mourners at a great point of emotional and
spiritual need. Trevor Lloyd has been for more than 40 years among
the leaders of liturgical revision in the Church of England, being
one of the originators of Grove Booklets on Worship and Ministry.
He joined the Church of England Liturgical Commission in 1980, and
had a large and creative hand in the forming of the range of
material surrounding death in the Church of England Common Worship
provision. He has participated in IALCs since 1989, and has been a
member of the Joint Editorial Board for the Alcuin/GROW Joint
Liturgical Studies from the outset in 1986. He was from 1989 to
2002 Archdeacon of Barnstaple in the Diocese of Exeter, and lives
in North Devon in retirement. The Rev Dr Eileen Scully, currently
chair of the IALC Steering Committee, gives an appropriate
'Commendatory Note' to explain the origins and status of the
Statement, and to affirm the Committee's confidence in the work
Trevor Lloyd has fulfilled
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