Since
winter 2003/4 a small group of students and postgraduates of the Theological
Faculty of Heidelberg University celebrates divine services in the byzantine
slavonic rite. By doing so they follow the up to now rather unknown tradition
of the Ukrainian Lutheran Church, who has maintained a reformed adaption
of the liturgy of John Chrysostom. Meanwhile the order of services has
been edited and enriched by tunes and melodies which are popular easy
to be sung. There exists already a traslation into the Czech language.
A sound recording is also available. In this time when the strangeness
between the churches of the east and the west have not yet been overcome
we try to meet the way of the Eastern churches even within Churches of
reformatoric character.
[The Divine Liturgy of the Ukrainian Lutheran Church]
Icon of the birth
of Christ, Romanian Style