Convocation in Europe Releases New German/English Worship Resource
Episcopal News Service. December 6, 2004 [120604-1-A]
The Convocation of American Churches in Europe has announced the release of a German/English edition of Selected Liturgies from the Book of Common Prayer. The translation was completed by a team of clergy and lay people at Episcopal parishes in Munich and Frankfurt, and represents an historic contribution to the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion at large.
This is the fifth such bilingual worship resource produced at St. James Church in Florence, Italy, on behalf of the Convocation. The first Italian translation of the liturgies was printed in 1999 and an expanded edition was released in 2000, joined in 2003 by parallel editions in Spanish and French.
Each of the bilingual editions include the following liturgies, with facing text in English:
* Daily Morning Prayer: Rite II
* Daily Evening Prayer: Rite II
* Compline
* Holy Baptism
* Celebration of a Marriage
* Holy Eucharist: Rite II
* Prayers of the People
* Reconciliation of a Penitent
* Ministration to the Sick
* Burial of the Dead: Rite II
At 375 pages long, cloth- or leather-bound with a ribbon bookmark, the bilingual editions are paginated and formatted to correspond with the 1979 standard Book of Common Prayer.
Funding for the German edition was provided by the Rev. and Mrs. Robert W. Golledge, the Margaret Coffin Prayer Book Society and the Bible and Common Prayer Book Society. Church Missions Publishing Society is also currently considering a grant. All proceeds from the sale of the books will be set aside for future reprints or used in the development of new bilingual or multilingual worship resources.
U.S. and Canadian distribution of the French and Spanish clothbound editions is now being handled by Church Publishing, Inc. in New York (www.churchpublishing.org). To order copies of the German, Italian or any of the leather-bound editions, please contact Christina N. Caughlan at ccaughlan@dinonet.it, or by telephone or fax at +39 055 29 44 17.
Since the mid-19th century, the parishes of the Convocation of American Churches in Europe have ministered to Americans and other English-speaking people in Europe on behalf of the Episcopal Church.
The Convocation today has 21 congregations using six languages, and some 4,000 communicants, a multinational, multiracial, multilingual, and multicultural fellowship within the New Europe -- a mirror image of the multinational, multiracial, multilingual, and multicultural Episcopal Church in the USA. Four new congregations will be launched in 2005.
The Convocation's new website is at http://tec-europe.org.