Word: worshiped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...With the move toward church unity, everybody is becoming aware of the value of symbols and order in worship. People are looking for unity and order in religion, which, .because of these anxious times, they cannot find elsewhere in life...
Return to Cassocks. Though the sermon still remains the focus of most Protestant services, the most notable sign of the liturgical times is restoration of Communion services to a central place in the order of worship. At the Redford Presbyterian 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...
...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 ago I could have built such a church...
...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...
...Church of Rome conducts its official worship in the ancient Latin language of the Eternal City. To Protestant Christians, who believe that prayer should be in a language that the people understand, the use of Latin in liturgy has long been one of the lesser bars to church reunion. Many Roman Catholics also agree that there is too much Latin in the Mass; the Vatican is aswarm with requests from bishops for permission to have at least the parts of the Mass addressed to the congregation (such as the Epistle and the Gospel) read in the vernacular. But Latin...