Tarping is a term referring to a common
Anglican
Anglicanism, also known as Episcopalianism in some countries, is a Western Christianity, Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the ...
practice of performing the
ablutions at the point indicated by the majority of Western rites, that is to say immediately after the distribution of
Holy Communion
The Eucharist ( ; from , ), also called Holy Communion, the Blessed Sacrament or the Lord's Supper, is a Christian rite, considered a sacrament in most churches and an ordinance in others. Christians believe that the rite was instituted by J ...
rather than after the service as was prescribed in the
1662 ''Book of Common Prayer''. The term is derived from the initial letters of "Taking the Ablutions at the Right Place".
"The Bishop of Southwell in 1922 had refused as a Visitor to intervene over 'tarping'; ... Anglo-Catholic parishes, and even more, non-parochial chapels of religious orders, were a law unto themselves." - Alastair Mason, ''History of the Society of the Sacred Mission'', Canterbury Press, 1993
Order of Mass
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