Weekly saying
The saying of the week is a quotation from the Bible that motto-like names the theme of the Sunday service. It is a relatively new element of Protestant worship and comes from the Berneuchen movement .
The weekly sayings of 1924 in the calendar published by Wilhelm Stählin , “God's Year.” They were intended as meditation words can first be proven . Over the years, a canon of repetitive weekly sayings appropriate to the church year emerged. This practice was fundamentally reflected in the 1934 “Memorandum on Church Order of the Year”. It contained tables that named a topic for every Sunday in the church year, with the corresponding weekly saying and weekly song. The subject was mostly taken from the Sunday Gospel. The central idea in the world for the pericope order to this day was that the individual biblical texts that sounded in a Sunday service should be related to one another ( consonance ).
The weekly sayings were adopted in other calendars and liturgical books, within the Berneuchen movement, but soon beyond:
- Herrnhut slogans since 1934;
- Rudolf Spieker: Reading for the Year of the Church , the Berneuchen order of daily Bible reading , since 1936;
- Lutheran Agende I (1955);
- Lutheran Lectionary (since 1978) as "Biblical Voting - Saying of the Week". Since some Sundays received new Gospel readings, the weekly sayings were adjusted accordingly.
The last step in the development was carried out with the Evangelical Worship Book 1999, which made the weekly proverbs an integral part of the Sunday preaching. The saying of the week is often quoted within the free greeting to announce the topic of the service to the congregation.