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The Holy Eucharist: Rite Two

1993 Anglican liturgical book

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 21, 2024
Entity authorityQ7740025 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Holy Eucharist: Rite Two (Chinese: 聖餐崇拜禮文第二式) is an alternative service book authorised in 1993 by the 41st Diocesan Synod of the Diocese of Hong Kong and Macau, known as the General Synod of Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui after its establishment in 1998. It is used as an alternative to the Book of Common Prayer (Chinese: 公禱書) published by the former Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “The Holy Eucharist: Rite Two” is 1993 Anglican liturgical book. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Holy, Eucharist and Rite, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1993, 1998—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Holy, Eucharist and Rite is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “1993 Anglican liturgical book” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 21, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q7740025. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1993 and 1998.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “The Holy Eucharist: Rite Two”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow The Holy Eucharist: Rite Two primary sources, The Holy Eucharist: Rite Two archive and Holy research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “The Holy Eucharist: Rite Two”?
  2. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
  3. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
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This entry incorporates text from “The Holy Eucharist: Rite Two” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.