United Methodist Churches

Source: The Complete Library of Christian Worship, Robert E. Webber, General Editor

In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, observance of the Christian year by American Methodists was mainly limited to "great festivals" such as Christmas, Easter, and Whitsunday (Pentecost). A movement toward recovery of the entire Christian year gained momentum in the mid-twentieth century, and in 1984 United Methodists adopted the ecumenical Common Lectionary and calendar.

Methodism began as a movement led by John Wesley (17031791), a priest of the Church of England who followed...

 

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