Word: revs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mark's Lutheran Church in Chicago, Christmas was marked seven years ago by what the pastor, the Rev. J. Stephen Bremer, calls "two rather nondescript services," on Christmas Eve. Next week the Rev. Mr. Bremer and his congregation will celebrate the birth of Christ with four choral Eucharists, at which all the prayers and responses will be sung in plain chant. Instead of the austere black robe that his predecessor wore, the Rev. Mr. Bremer will dress in full Eucharistic vestments-alb, stole, maniple and chasuble, all in white. St. Mark's altar will bear six candles instead...
...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 as the Congregational), ministers have restored the ecclesiastical calendar to use, preaching on themes appropriate to the seasons...
...central position to one side, placing the new focus on the Communion table. In Cincinnati's new Kenwood Baptist Church, a Communion table surmounted by a wooden Cross is at the center, with the pulpit off to one side. "This is unusual for Baptists," admits the pastor, the Rev. J. Stanley Mathews. "It's a move on our part to create a worship center and a dignified approach to worship." The First Baptist Church in Washington has stained-glass windows depicting outstanding figures of the Christian past. Says the Rev. Edwin Hughes Pruden: "I doubt if 25 years...
Work & Worship. When the meaning of liturgical changes has been explained to them, most congregations have taken favorably to the restoration of form and ceremony. "They rebel at first," admits the Rev. Jans van der Graaf...
...REV.) ROY S. BUFFAT SR. The First Presbyterian Church Cobden...