Agenda

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As a liturgy in the Protestant churches, the book (or books) is called, in which the fixed and variable parts ( Ordinary and Proper of ) the regular worship and the official acts ( Kasualien are listed). So a liturgy contains liturgy models representing the historically developed service process and its design variants that after every Sunday and holiday in the church year aligned prayers and texts according to the lectionary .

As a church law, the agenda is binding for Protestant liturgists .

According to the wording, an agende (from Latin agere ) is what has to be done. In fact, an agende describes what is performed in the celebrated worship service by the liturgist and the congregation (stand up, sit, walk, stand, pray, sing); it can therefore also be viewed as an instruction on behavior or action. With regard to the liturgist, this is particularly evident in the rubrics given here , which describe what he has to do specifically at the relevant point in the divine service. The agenda for the liturgist is comparable to the hymn book for the congregation in the regional church and the free churches . The agende belongs to the group of liturgical books .

The Catholic counterpart to the Agende for Holy Mass is the missal , which in the old Catholic Church is called the Eucharist . The pontifical applies to the episcopal mass and official acts of the episcopate, the Roman ritual applies to the dispensing of sacraments , blessings and ordinations, and the breviary or book of hours applies to the prayer of the hours. (For other denominations: see list of liturgical books ).

The agenda for Evangelical Lutheran churches and parishes

Structure of the agenda

The agenda for Evangelical Lutheran churches and congregations consists of the following volumes:

  • Volume I: The main service with sermon and Holy Communion and the other sermon and communion services (1955)
  • Volume II: The Prayer Services (1960)
  • Volume III: The Official Actions (1964)
    • Part 1: Baptism (revised edition 1988)
    • Part 2: The wedding ceremony (revised edition 1988)
    • Part 3: Confession (revised 1993 edition)
    • Part 4: Service to the sick (revised edition 1994)
    • Part 5: The Burial (revised edition 1996)
    • Part 6: Confirmation (revised edition 2001)
  • Volume IV: Ordination and consecration , introductory acts, initiatory acts (revised edition 1987)
    • Volume 1: Appointment, introduction, adoption (revised edition 2012)

This also included:

  • Lectionary for Evangelical Lutheran Churches and Congregations (revised edition 1986)
  • Order of the sermon texts (1958)
  • Kleines Kantionale , 2 volumes (1958/1969)
  • Handout for the pastoral service, 2 volumes (1958)
  • Children's service (1964)

History of the creation of Agende I of the VELKD

Agende I, introduced in 1955, is the product of a development that began after the First World War and was primarily determined by representatives of the so-called second liturgical movement . During the time of National Socialism, this work was then continued by the free liturgical working groups; These included the Augsburg Confessional Association of the High Churches , the Berneuchen , the Lower Saxony Liturgical Conference, the liturgical committees of the Rhenish and Westphalian Confessing Church , the Alpirsbach Church and representatives from Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg. This work was then continued after the Second World War in the newly established Lutheran Liturgical Conference . A draft agenda from the Confessing Church was already available in 1941, but could not be published as Church Agenda I (the so-called Beckmann - Brunner Agenda) until 1948 . A preliminary draft of the Ordinarium of the later Agende I was published in 1946 and the preliminary draft of the Agende itself was published in 1951 for testing and comment.

The structure of Agende I of the VELKD in detail

I. The entrance part
Organ prelude
Preparation prayer of the congregation ( Confiteor )
Introit (entrance) - Introit psalm and / or entrance song
Kyrie eleison and Gloria in Excelsis
Gloria with prose text Song-shaped Gloria
Collection prayer with salutation
II. The word part
Epistle (with Präfamen )
Alleluia
Graduate song ( weekly song )
Gospel reading
Creed ( creed )
Sung Credo Spoken credo
Song or stanza
sermon
Sermon song
Discontinuations
Thanksgiving offering ( collection )
General church prayer ( intercessory prayer )
Our Father
III. The sacrament part
Preface (Great Thanksgiving Prayer)
Sanctus
Post Sanctus - Epiclesis
Our Father Words of institution ( consecration )
Words of institution ( consecration ) anamnese
Our Father
Peace greeting
Distribution ( communion ) - before or during: Agnus Dei
Thank you song
Final collection ( Postcommunio )
IV. The final part
Discharge
Aaronic blessing
Organ aftermath

The Evangelical Lutheran Church Agenda of the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church

The Evangelical Lutheran Church Agenda is the binding agenda for the services of the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church (SELK). In addition, this decidedly Lutheran agenda is also in force in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Baden (ELKiB); it is also occasionally used by Lutheran congregations in the area of ​​the Evangelical regional churches. It is based on Agende I for Evangelical Lutheran Churches and Congregations, Berlin 1957. The Liturgical Commission of the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church developed it and published it in 1997 by the church leadership of the SELK.

Development of the agenda of the SELK

  • Volume I : Main service with sermon and Holy Communion. The Mass of the Evangelical Lutheran Church (1997)
  • Volume II : The prayer services (1960), identical to the VELKD
  • Volume III : The official acts (1964), identical to the VELKD, but with special provisions
    • Part 1: Holy Baptism. Revised edition Göttingen 2010, SELK's own christening day
    • Part 2: Confirmation. Göttingen 2016, SELK's own confirmation agenda
    • Part 5: The Burial (revised edition 1996), identical to the VELKD, but special provisions
  • Volume IV : Ordination and consecration , introductory acts, inauguration acts (1951) with special provisions of the SELK.
    • Part 1: Office, offices, services. Draft for testing, Göttingen 2011

To this day this includes:

  • Lectionary for Evangelical Lutheran Churches and Congregations (1953)
  • Order of the sermon texts (1958)
  • Kleines Kantionale, 2 volumes (1958/1969)
  • Handout for the pastoral service, 2 volumes (1958)

History of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Agenda

The Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church and its predecessor churches used Agende I of the VELKD until the Evangelical Lutheran Church Agenda was introduced in 1997 . Lutheran regional and free churches consequently celebrated divine services after the Lutheran mass from Agende I. When it became clear that the Lutheran regional churches and the Protestant churches of the Union are jointly pursuing an agenda, the SELK, due to its Lutheran confession and the rejection of the Union, was forced to publish its own Lutheran agenda for its services. The SELK is reminded of the agendas dispute and the resulting emergence of the Old Lutheran Church in Prussia.

Introduction to the Evangelical Lutheran Church Agenda

Evangelical Lutheran Church Agenda

According to Bishop Jobst Schöne's foreword, the Evangelical Lutheran Church Agenda sees itself as an agende that proclaims and praises the Triune God in his word and the sacraments . Next, the divine service organized by the Evangelical Lutheran Church Agenda testifies to the faith of Christianity in Lutheran confessionalism and commitment. After all, this Lutheran church agenda has the task of promoting the unity of faith and confession in the Lutheran churches.

The Evangelical Lutheran Church Agenda begins with the “main service with sermon and Holy Communion. The holy mass of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. ”In addition to the introitus, collection prayers, readings from the Old Testament, the epistle, the Hallelujah verse, the weekly song , the gospel, the church seasonal prefations and eucharistic prayers, versicles, also drafts for divine services for the days of the Apostles, All Saints' Day, and other days. A very extensive collection of prayer can also be found in this agenda. A distinction is made between general church prayer, ectenia (liturgy, lecturer and congregation) and diaconal prayers. Suggestions are made for how to sing these prayers. This agende also offers an extensive selection of prefatory prayers and eucharistic prayers (form B). But there are also suggestions for design. A special feature compared to the Protestant service book is that the celebration of confession has been included in the Evangelical Lutheran church agendas.

The agenda for the Evangelical Church of the Union

History of the development of Agende I of the EKU

Agende I of the EKU , like that of the VELKD, is essentially based on the preparatory work of the Lutheran Liturgical Conference and other institutions, above all on the Church Agenda I published in 1948 , which was a private work by Peter Brunner , Joachim Beckmann and others. A first draft was presented as early as 1953. In 1959, after a trial period, it was finally decided and published.

Structure of the agenda

The agenda for the Evangelical Church of the Union consists of the following volumes:

  • Volume I: The Church Service (1959)
  • Volume II: Church Acts (1964)
    • Part 1: The Orders of Holy Baptism. Admission of a baptized Christian to the Evangelical Church. Resumption of a church resignation. The confirmation. The wedding. The celebration of Holy Communion outside of the church service. The individual confession. The funeral
    • Part 2: Ordination to the ministry. Blessings. Ecclesiastical authorization of a teacher or a catechist. Sending out a missionary or other ecumenical worker, introductions. Initiations.

While volume I remained unchanged until the introduction of the service book in 1999 (there was only a new edition with the changed pericopes after the pericopes revision in 1976), a special edition of the first sections of volume II / 2 (old pp. 133-224) appeared under the title

  • Volume II / 2: Divine Service Regulations for Ordination, Introduction, Authorization and Presentation (1984), which contained a new version of the divine services for ordinations and introduction and into which the texts of the revised Luther Bible were incorporated. The reworking of the parts from Volume II / 1 resulted after 2000 in the individual volumes of the new agenda of the ICE.

In the member churches of the agendas community of the former EKU, the agendaric forms for admission, individual confessions, ordination, introduction, authorization, presentation and initiation acts (churches, organs, bells, etc.) are currently still in force.

The structure of Agende I of the EKU in detail

I. The entrance part
Organ prelude
Entrance song
Liturgical greeting
Entrance psalm or entrance verse Confession of sin
Confession of sin Entrance Psalm
Kyrie eleison Kyrie eleison
Grant of grace
Gloria in excelsis Gloria in excelsis
Prayer (with salutation )
II. The word part
Epistle reading
Verse with alleluia
Song of the Sunday or feast day
Gospel reading
Creed ( creed )
song
sermon
song
General church prayer
Our Father
Benedicamus
Aaronic blessing
III. The sacrament part
Prefation
Sanctus
Sacrament prayer
Appointment words
Our Father
Peace greeting
Agnus Dei
distribution
Thank you song
Collection with versicle
IV. The final part
Benedicamus
Aaronic blessing
Organ aftermath

The evangelical worship book from VELKD and EKU

History of its creation

Shortly after the introduction of the last and at that time still separate agendas of VELKD and EKU (agendas I from 1955 and 1959), work on a new agenda work in the Lutheran Liturgical Conference of Germany was started in 1965, “Principles for the further work on agende “Were decided. The " Divine Services in a New Shape ", which has been celebrated since around 1960 , whose liturgies and texts have been widely published and finally made known to a broader community at the Dortmund Kirchentag in 1963 , also influenced this development process . The church days with the experimental liturgies celebrated there also provided impulses for the celebration of church services and, not least, for the development of agendas. B. through the after-work meal at the Kirchentag in Nuremberg in 1979. A first important result of the work on the agenda is the so-called structure paper from 1974, in which an attempt was made to meet the challenge of the “church services in a new form”. This is how the memorandum of assembly gathered. Structure and elements of the worship service. On the reform of the worship service and the agenda , which heralded a second phase of the agenda reform . Two consultations in 1980 between representatives of the VELKD and the EKU showed that working out a joint agenda was sensible and feasible. As early as 1981 a draft for the conception of a renewed agenda was presented. In 1990 the Renewed Agenda was presented as a preliminary draft for discussion. Subsequently, the comments on the preliminary draft were processed with a newly composed working group and the preliminary draft was once again decisively changed in this process. For the 1st Advent in 1999 the Evangelical Worship Book was introduced as a binding and common agenda for the member churches of the VELKD and the EKU.

Introduction to the conception and structure of the Evangelical Worship Book

The Evangelical Worship Book is (currently) divided into two volumes. On the one hand the original work (main work) and the supplementary volume.

The divine service book is based on the "principle of a fixed basic structure in variable form", which is intended to guide the use of the agenda on one's own responsibility.

First of all, two basic forms of worship are presented, on which individual liturgies can be designed:

  • Basic form I (worship with sermon and communion )
  • Basic form II (sermon service [with communion])

The two basic forms carry on the traditions of the two forms of worship that have been in use since the Reformation : on the one hand, the basic form I, which is linked to the Latin Mass, the so-called mass type as a service with sermon and Lord's Supper, and on the other hand, the basic form II, which is linked to the sermon service that has emerged since the late Middle Ages as a preaching service (with communion).

There are also forms for:

  • the celebration of baptism in the church service,
  • Church services with a small number of participants,
    • Dinner ,
    • abridged forms of worship with and without the Lord's Supper
  • Church service on Good Friday ,
  • Divine service on the day of repentance and prayer ,
  • Service organization in open form,
    • Family service,
    • After-work meal,
    • Divine service with richer forms of interaction.

The bulk of the service book form after Kirchenjahr changing and cause pieces ( Proper ), in which the readings and Predigttexte , the week saying that week song , the input Ps , the day prayer , the Thanksgiving and optionally the Präfationsgebet and Hallelujavers of every Sunday and Feast day are set and a collection of texts in which further prayers and calls to prayer as well as possibilities for other elements of the service (e.g. greeting) are listed.

The supplementary volume contains general information on the design of church services, further details on the basic forms as well as information on open church services, additions to the collection of texts, instructions on the pastor's liturgical behavior during the service and further information on liturgy and liturgical chants.

Criteria for the organization of services

The following criteria for understanding and structuring the service are given in the service book. The first five criteria come from the Renewed Agenda , criteria six and seven were newly included in the subsequent process of reaching agreement on the Renewed Agende .

  1. The service is celebrated under the responsibility and participation of the whole congregation.
  2. The service follows a recognizable, stable basic structure that leaves a wide range of design options open.
  3. Tried and tested texts from tradition and new texts from contemporary community life are given the same priority.
  4. The evangelical worship service is closely related to the worship services of the other churches in the ecumenical movement.
  5. Language should not exclude anyone; rather, in it the community of men, women, young people and children as well as of different groupings in the church should find their appropriate expression.
  6. Liturgical action and conduct involve the whole person; it also expresses itself bodily and sensually.
  7. Christianity is permanently connected to Israel as the first called people of God.

The structure of the two basic forms in detail

Basic form I Basic form II
A opening and invocation A opening and invocation
First form Second form
Bells ringing Bells ringing
Music at the entrance Music at the entrance
Vote on the opening song
greeting Vote on the opening
Preparatory Prayer greeting
song Psalm / Biblical vote
psalm Glory be to the father
Glory be to the father Penitential prayer / confession of sin
Lord, have mercy Lord, have mercy
Pledge of grace
Glory to God Glory to God
Daily prayer Daily prayer
Basic form Short form
Bells ringing Bells ringing
Music at the entrance Music at the entrance
song song
Vote on the opening
greeting greeting
Biblical vote or psalm Biblical vote
Glory be to the father
Opening prayer Opening prayer
B Annunciation and Confession B Annunciation and Confession
Reading from the Old Testament
Scripture reading
Singing / music
Creed
song
sermon sermon
Prayer or common confession of guilt
Creed
Pulpit blessing Pulpit blessing
Song / music / silence song
singing
Epistle reading
Alleluia
singing
Gospel reading
Creed
singing
sermon
- Prayer / common confession of guilt
- Pulpit blessing
Song / music / silence
Creed
Thanksgiving offering (collection) - song / music
- Prayer for the Thanksgiving Offering
Discontinuations
Intercessory prayer
C Last Supper C Last Supper
Thanksgiving offering (collection) - song Thanksgiving offering (collection) - song
preparation preparation
Praise Praise
Thrice holy Thrice holy
Last Supper Prayer I Our Father
Appointment words Appointment words
Praise of Christ
Last Supper Prayer II
Our Father
Peace greeting
Lamb Of God Lamb Of God
distribution distribution
Thanksgiving Thanksgiving
Contemplation of the sacrament
Appointment words
Sacrament prayer
Our Father
Peace greeting
distribution
Thanksgiving
D mission and blessing D mission and blessing
Intercessory prayer
Thanks offering - song
Discontinuations
Intercessory prayer Intercessory prayer
Our Father Our Father
blessing blessing
Song stanza Song stanza
Music to the exit Music to the exit
Our Father
Praise
song
Discontinuations
Broadcast word
Song stanza
blessing
Music to the exit


Legend
Optional elements
Elements that, if used here, are omitted in the other specified position
The Lord's Supper is optional in its basic form and generally omitted in its short form
variants

The agenda of the Union of Evangelical Churches

With the dissolution of the EKU and the founding of the UEK, as well as after the introduction of the joint divine service book of VELKD and EKU, the liturgical committee of the UEK began to revise the other sub-agendas for the casualia. The following parts have currently been published, which replace the older agendas (primarily the older sub-agendas of the EKU) in almost all regional churches, insofar as they are member churches of the ICE:

  • Baptism Book (2000)
  • Confirmation (2001), is identical to Agende III Part 6 of the VELKD
  • Burial (2004)
  • Wedding ceremony (2006)

Agendas of other Protestant regional churches

Since the Protestant regional churches of Baden, Hessen and Nassau, Kurhessen-Waldeck, Lippe, Oldenburg, Württemberg and the Palatinate were neither member churches of the VELKD nor the EKU at the time of the introduction of the Evangelical Worship Book , they each have their own agendas. However, this does not rule out that the more recent editions of these agendas include similar or even identical models of worship as in the worship book, for example in Baden, Kurhessen-Waldeck and the Palatinate.

The Reformed Liturgy

history

The Reformed Liturgy is the common divine service book of Reformed churches in Germany. It was published by the Reformed Federation in 1999 .

The sermon is at the center of the Reformed worship service. In addition to the Reformed preaching service, the Reformed Liturgy has also adopted the type of worship service, the form of measurement , which is considered typical Lutheran , as a possible form of worship. In addition, it offers liturgical forms for casuals and official acts.

Order of worship according to the Reformed Liturgy

The Reformed Liturgy offers three forms of worship that allow for design variations.

The first form contains the form widely used in the Reformed congregations and churches in Germany:

(Bells ringing)
Music at the entrance
Input word
Psalm or song
Opening prayer with confession of sin
Scripture reading
Creed
song
sermon
Song or piece of music
Announcements and Discontinuations
Intercessory prayer
Prayer of the lord
song
blessing
Music to the exit

The second form is used in the Evangelical Old Reformed Church , and the third form follows the uniate worship tradition. These last two forms take up elements of the measurement form.

Each type of worship service can be combined with a meal , in which the Reformed Liturgy provides two basic forms A (with reflection on the Lord's Supper) and B (according to the measurement form), each with two variants.

literature

Evangelical service book

Agenda of the ICE

  • Baptismal register. Agende for the Evangelical Church of the Union. Evangelical Main Bible Society and von Cansteinsche Bibelanstalt, Berlin 2000; ISBN 3-7461-0148-4 (altar edition); ISBN 3-7461-0149-2 (loose-leaf edition).
  • Confirmation. Agende for the Evangelical Church of the Union and for the United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany. Evangelical Main Bible Society and von Cansteinsche Bibelanstalt, Berlin 2001; ISBN 3-7461-0151-4 (altar edition); ISBN 3-7461-0152-2 (loose-leaf edition).
  • Funeral. Agende for the Evangelical Church of the Union; ed. on behalf of the Council of the Evangelical Church of the Union. Berlin 2004; ISBN 978-3-7858-0495-7 .
  • Wedding. Agende for the Evangelical Church of the Union; ed. on behalf of the Council of the Evangelical Church of the Union. Berlin 2006; ISBN 978-3-7858-0545-9 .

Evangelical Lutheran Church Agenda

Reformed liturgy

  • Ernst Wolf , Martin Albertz (ed.): Church book. Regulations for the assemblies of the German-speaking churches reformed according to God's Word . Munich 1941.
  • Church book. Prayers and ordinances for the community gathered under the word. Edited on behalf of the Moderame of the Reformed League. Neukirchen-Vluyn 1951.
  • Karl Halaski u. a. (Ed.): Church book. Prayers and ordinances for the community gathered under the word . 3. Edition. Neukirchener Verlag, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1983, ISBN 3-7887-0689-9 .
  • Peter Bukowski , Arnd Klompmaker, Christiane Nolting, Alfred Rauhaus , Friedrich Thiele (eds.): Reformed Liturgy. Prayers and ordinances for the community gathered under the word . 2nd Edition. Neukirchener Verlag, Neukirchen-Vluyn 2000, ISBN 3-932735-36-6 ; foedus, Wuppertal 2000, ISBN 3-7887-1777-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Section History of the genesis of Agende I of the VELKD
  2. ↑ Evangelisches Gottesdienstbuch, p. 17