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Monday, December 6, 2004 -- Monday Mission: Ministry and Outreach

Convocation in Europe releases new German/English worship resource

[ENS] -- 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/.