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MARTIN G. SCHROEDER Pastor Messiah Lutheran Church Grand Island...
...congregation, Stephen Bremer has instituted daily morning prayer. Communion service on Sundays and saints' days, an evening vigil at Easter; private confession is available to any parishioner who wants it. Nor is St. Mark's an isolated example. Across the country among Methodists, Episcopalians, Presbyterians and Lutherans, a radical reform in both the form and content of religious services is now under way. It is a liturgical revival that both goes back to primitive Christianity in its emphasis on the Communion service as the central sacrament of worship and, at the same time, is immensely sophisticated in welcoming...
Back to the Altar. Rebelling against what were thought to be abuses in the Roman Catholic Mass, the Protestant Reformation emphasized the preaching of God's word in sermons at the expense of sacramental worship. This emphasis was heightened in the U.S., argues Lutheran Brown, where "the development of Protestantism in the 18th and early 19th centuries was primarily that of the Methodist and Baptist kind of fervent expression of religion.'' Even in churches with strong liturgical traditions-such as the Lutherans and Episcopalians-hymns placed more emphasis upon individual piety than on praise...
...Church in Detroit, Communion is now monthly instead of four times a year; the church is considering whether to make the service weekly. At the Travis Park Methodist Church in San Antonio, the congregation recently asked their pastor to offer Communion every Sunday, instead of once a month. Many Lutheran churches have revived the sung "German Mass," according to the original ritual of Martin Luther. The Rev. Franklin Senger of Washington's Holy Comforter Church uses plain chant at all his Sunday services; about half of his congregation genuflect. Even in denominations where Communion is still rare (such...
...dress. In the New England Council of the United Churches of Christ, whose ministers a few years ago seldom wore anything more ecclesiastical than a discreet dark suit, more than half of the ministers now use a clerical collar. In 1941, according to a survey conducted by the United Lutheran Church in America, 1.500 out of 2,000 of their ministers wore either a simple black robe or no robe at all at services; now two-thirds of them dress in either cassock, surplice and stole or full Eucharistic vestments. In San Francisco, Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike is urging...