[2][3] As the Book of Common Prayer states that it is only "binding on everybody to communicate three times a year", it was not the norm prior to the movement for the average layperson to receive holy communion every week.
The movement is regarded as having changed the current Anglican practise such that a more collective service of Communion in the mid-morning is often central to a parish's Sunday worship.
Early advocates of parish communion included Cosmo Lang when Bishop of Stepney in the 1900s (decade)[4] and by William Temple when Archbishop of York in the 1930s.
[4] Even though the movement is held to have originated between the wars, it only lost its Anglo-Catholic connotations and started to gain popular momentum in the 1960s.
[4] The Parish and People movement has sometimes been conceived of as being representative of central churchmanship[4] in that it was not low church in its views but not strictly speaking Anglo-Catholic either.