Worship
From the outset, the Moravian Church has placed a strong emphasis on congregational hymn singing as a form of both worship and learning. One of its early Bishops, Luke of Prague (1460–1528), also encouraged the Church to use Hussite and Catholic liturgies to enrich their worship. Zinzendorf, who renewed the church in the 1720s, has been described as the most original liturgist of Protestant Christianity. The Moravian Church in Britain has continued to be a liturgical church while at the same time allowing free worship as the occasion demands.
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“When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)
“Both nuns and mothers worship images,
But those the candles light are not as those
That animate a mother’s reveries,
But keep a marble or a bronze repose.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
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