Israel Sunday

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The Israel Sunday (formerly Jews Sunday ) is a Sunday in the church year of the Evangelical Church in Germany , which has the relationship between Christians and Jews on the subject. It is celebrated on the tenth Sunday after Trinity , eleven weeks after Pentecost.

Theological meaning

Traditional Sunday gospel is Luke 19 : 41-48  LUT , Jesus weeps over Jerusalem. Since 1998, Mark 12: 28–34  LUT , the conversation between Jesus and a Jewish scribe about the highest commandment , has been an alternative . While the latter is devoted to the theological ties to Judaism, the first-mentioned proprium can be designed as a self-critical appropriation of the gospel from the destruction of Jerusalem to a penance service. Accordingly, you can choose between the two colors purple (color of penance) and green (normal color).

If Psalm 84  LUT was previously spoken, it should be Psalm 106.4–5a.47a.48a  LUT according to the Evangelical Worship Book from 2000 and according to the Reformed Liturgy and the Palatinate Agende Psalm 74  LUT : It was just not possible in this orientation more about the destruction of the temple (Luke 19), but exclusively about God's lasting faithfulness (Mark 12). This was confirmed by the pericope revision , which came into force for the 2018/19 church year, by the fact that Psalm 122  LUT is now assigned to Sunday . If Israel Sunday is celebrated as a day to commemorate the destruction of Israel, Psalm 74 : 1–3.8–11.20–21  LUT will continue to be read.

In the draft of the reorganization of the divine service readings and sermon texts from 2014, both propries are again on an equal footing, provided that churches no longer instrumentalize the “Remembrance Day of the Destruction of Jerusalem” in an anti-Judaistic way, but instead use it as an occasion for Christian self-criticism: “The weeping of Jesus over Jerusalem is actualized as God's sorrow in the face of traditional Christian blindness to the Jewish people. "

The traditional name of the day was "Memorial Day of the Destruction of Jerusalem". The connection to the Jewish Tisha beAv still appeared in it. Judaism celebrates the day of the destruction of the first temple on Av. This often falls close to the 10th Sunday after Trinity. The Reformed Liturgy expressly refers to this connection.

The theological development of the time since the Second World War, which has been particularly effective since around 1970: After the Holocaust, Protestant theology tried to gain a theological understanding of Judaism that is free from anti-Judaism and anti-Semitism.

With the reorganization of the pericopes for the 2018/19 church year, “the so-called 'Israel Sunday' […] was given two different accents […]: with the liturgical color green under the heading 'Christians and Jews - Joy in Israel' or with the liturgical color violet under the heading 'Remembrance Day of the Destruction of Jerusalem'. "In terms of content," it is about the relationship and the lasting connection between Christianity and Judaism. "The remembrance day is understood as" an opportunity to deal with the Jewish roots of Christianity ”,“ Because much of what Jesus taught can only be understood from Judaism ”.

controversy

On Israel Sunday 2015, an Ecumenical Peace Panel in Kollnau called for attention to the relationship between Israel and the Palestinians in addition to theological issues and “to commemorate the fate of the Arabs in Palestine”. Evangelical Christians are called upon to “stand up for Palestinians to have a secure existence” and a “functioning state”.

The dates of the Israel Sunday and Tisha beAv

year Israel Sunday Tischa beAv
2019 August 25 August 11th
2020 August 16 30th July
2021 08th August July 18th
2022 August 21 0August 7th
2023 13 August July 27th

See also

literature

  • Karl-Heinrich Bieritz : The church service in the church year. 10th Sunday after Trinity. In: Evangelisches Gottesdienstbuch - Agende for the Evangelical Church of the Union and the United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany Berlin. Supplementary volume. 2000, ISBN 3-7461-0169-7 , p. 179.
  • Evelina Volkmann: From 'Jewish Sunday' to 'Israel Sunday'. Sermon work on the horizon of the Christian-Jewish conversation . Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-7668-3762-1 .
  • Irene Mildenberger: The Israel Sunday - Remembrance Day of the Destruction of Jerusalem: Investigations into its homiletic and liturgical design in the evangelical tradition. Institute for Church and Judaism, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-923095-77-5 (also dissertation University of Heidelberg 1999).

swell

  1. ↑ Michael Schäfer: Solidarity and Criticism. In: kanzelgruss.de. August 1, 2010, accessed November 25, 2018 .
  2. ↑ According to Gerhard Gronauer: "Save those who are dragged to death". Where the memory of the Jewish victims of National Socialism can be located in the community. In: News from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria, 2/2016, pp. 25–28, here p. 26.
  3. ↑ For example: Liturgical group of the Theological Study Community in Posen (ed.): Agende for reading services in church and house. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1931, p. 35.
  4. ↑ Evangelisches Gottesdienstbuch, 2000, p. 368.
  5. ^ Reformed Liturgy. Prayers and ordinances for the community gathered under the word. foedus, Wuppertal / Neukirchener Verlag, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1999, p. 593.
  6. ↑ Church agenda. Church book for the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate (Protestant Church) , Volume 2. Evangelical Press Association Palatinate, Speyer 2006, p. 676.
  7. ↑ Christine Jahn (Ed.): Draft for testing on behalf of EKD, UEK and VELKD. Reorganization of divine service readings and sermon texts. Hannover n.J. [2014], pp. 349–358.
  8. ↑ Gerhard Gronauer: "Save those who are dragged to death". Where the memory of the Jewish victims of National Socialism can be located in the community. In: News from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria, 2/2016, pp. 25–28, here p. 26.
  9. ^ Reformed Liturgy , p. 132.
  10. ^ Pericopes revision: Church year, 10th Sunday after Trinity. In: velkd.de . Retrieved November 25, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Profile · 10th Sun. after Trinity. In: Evangelical church year. Retrieved August 23, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Faith in Everyday Life · 10th Sun. after Trinity. In: Evangelical church year. Retrieved August 23, 2019 .
  13. ↑ The essentials · 10. Sun. after Trinity: God's chosen people. In: Evangelical church year. Retrieved August 23, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Service on Israel Sunday. In: Badische Zeitung . August 8, 2015, p. 8 , archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; accessed on November 25, 2018 .