Liturgy
Church’s heart beats in the celebration of worship service. Churches and congregations show their own profiles in the parlicularities of their worship Services. Those who wish to get to know a congregation or church would like to know about their services.
The 5th General Assembly of the Leuenberg Church Fellowship held in Belfast in 2001 expressed the wish for stronger integration among the churches involved also in terms of Spiritual growth.
Like the celebration of the annual ‘Leuenberg Sunday’ learning about the liturgical practice of member churches may strengthen the Community of Protestant Churches in Europe. The Liturgy Page on the CPCE Website is designed to serve this purpose.
It has been created in cooperation with the Liturgy Department of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland.
If you are looking for musical backup of a devotion or meditation in Lent season (and in times of Corona), visit our YouTube channel. You find there two songs of the songbook “Freitöne” (nos. 104 and 114), both in English and German.Liturgies across Europe
Here we present lituriges of the individual member churches. Classified according to countries, you will find information on the liturgical practice of individual CPCE member churches: basic information on the structures and traditions, currently used orders of service, pointers to liturgical projects and institutions. In most cases links are given to the churches’ own websites.
Lectionaries in the CPCE
The use of lectionaries for worship services in the protestant churches in Europe has developed through history. Many churches still hold fast to the early medieval, so-called “early church” pericope order, but in various revised or expanded forms. Alongside them stand churches which since the Reformation have done without a unified lectionary.
In the last decades movement has come into the European lectionary landscape. Churches have extensively reworked their old lectionaries or developed entirely new ones. Developments in the Roman Catholic Church and in the protestant churches in North America have had an impact in Europe. Even churches which traditionally had no lectionaries have begun to develop them.
The following contribution offers a survey of the lectionaries in use today in the member churches of the Community of Protestant Churches in Europe (CPCE), and gives a brief introduction to the various orders.
Climate Change
“Sustainable preaching” has been offering ecumenical preaching suggestions and a new dynamic to align the lectionary Bible readings of the Sundays into the global context of sustainable life and action.
