but since the outbreak of the cold and pandemic lockdown regulations are in force as seen here at this confirmation service. for. all this is that. and. many christians decide to baptize their children as infants. this signifies for them a permanent connection with the greater christian community. the then as they proceed onward to confirmation as teenagers to become full members of the church. i the confirmation service generally takes place in the presence of family friends and other members of the parish. i was we conduct the service in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit this. was jesus christ overcame death

and revealed life and eternal existence so her 2 days reading for the 16th sunday after trinity is from some poems 2nd letter to timothy was her choice. as this was her and said the immense protest against death to the divine savior is mightier than death. that our faith encourages us to hold on to this trace and to trust in it. in this letter between apostle paul and his disciple timothy paul exhorts the christian community to be faithful to the gospel today of course this xor taishan is addressed to the 2 young people being confirmed .

yeah how does that's right the heart is more important than what we see what's the good of a beautiful appearance if deep inside the heart is ugly this way i like good is a muscular physique if it has a cruel heart beating in it. the. was. this. dear parents and godparents dear congregation whoever wants to remain in the faith

and live in the christian community need the help of the holy spirit and the whole community of billionaires. during the baptism ceremony godparents are named and tasked with aiding in the child's christian upbringing. officially this task ends with the child confirmation but for many it continues our special relationship for life god's eyes on that may god father son and holy spirit help you on your way. may he give your strength to resist evil. and to give you his lasting joy. or you are men.

confirmation means committing oneself to the christian faith. believe me given blessing marks the transition into the age of adulthood in the church. and presenting themselves for confirmation they've confirmed the promises made on their behalf during their baptism and become 4 members of the church. it is. taking family photos to commemorate the event is an important part of the process. this documents the important promises made during the ceremony. this year. unlike leanin abbey the oldest village

church in berlin's the unfettered district has largely been preserved. it looks much as it did when it was built in the 12th century by members of the knights templar. here to parish activities are being kept to a minimum in accordance with the lockdown regulations. in previous years the church was hosting many lively religious events. the autumn harvest festival in particular has always been quite colorful drawing hundreds of visitors. the about unfettered off. the visits church is celebrating the anniversary of our founding we don't have an original founding document but it was clearly a plot of land belonging to the temple i order you don't i was a temple as the name suggests tempelhof. and. our foundations

of the temple are order of tempelhof it does us or does that's where the medieval knight sat and i believe that they provided the work then to build these village churches. that off. under studied theology here in 1964. of course and then he's terminated that was considered almost exotic as she herself says. her main focus has been on the churches of brandenburg and she's especially fond of the fieldstone churches. the brandenburg village churches are very interesting structurally they're very old and have a certain permanence in that they've survived many national. calamities especially wars. it's hard to destroy a fieldstone church. chremes if we are couplet. most

fieldstone churches were built during the romanesque and early gothic periods the architecture is simple and there are almost always small village churches. but you can also find romanesque churches in berlin they have stood here for 800 years did their 1st 300 years as catholic churches view until the reformation came and changed quite a bit the other 4 months many things in the churches were removed and altered to suit its new role for. one of the most significant changes to these churches after the reformation was the replacement of the windows instead of the original small arched windows large windows were set into the walls so that the congregation could read him books and the doctrine by daylight while the catholic church conducted their services separately from the choir the focus of

the lutheran church was on the sermon from the pulpit with a collective communion by the congregation in the middle of the service reason for people to stand in the main space for protestants is the name of the congregation gathers even though the village church of the endorphins pretty empty now because of the pandemic which has changed everything only very few spaces are now allowed to be built by worshippers belleek. no construction plans of the altar or references to it have survived. being said when he ordered however traces of a previous building made of all would have been found under the church and these go back to the 12th century. so the multi unfounded church could be one of the oldest in the region or was it this like. the darkness of their age the primary function of churches is to be

a place for people to congregate. the protestant daycare center any meaning has a long tradition. as early as 1925 the deaconesses of the mother house founded the 1st kindergarten here. parents and teachers didn't want the children to be deprived of harvest festival celebrations during the pandemic. yes not like guns are now really loud look here i'll give you the cue and the order to. come from god or yes with all the. good. kind just not as it can you sing it any louder so i can hear you i. was i. was.

building was a god was was. was. 7 these are tight as i've said this celebration is called the harvest festival and it's always at the beginning of october but this weekend it celebrated in the churches i'm going back home and when you come on sunday you won't hear me see flowers on the altar in front of it you'll see pumpkins and potatoes and color i start my i'm now look at town tiny these seeds. and you all know how big an apple tree can grow . the apple has long been used as a symbol for sweetness. donkey

zeeshan you know what then they get these beautiful red cheeks. oh i'm sure not i am such a beautiful apple tree and this is what humans did. martin luther is credited with saying if i knew the world was going to end tomorrow i would still plant an apple tree today. luther said this to encourage doing good now regardless of what lies ahead in the future. and comment. on why then the children were so happy to inherit the apples and they were delicious. in order to meet maintenance costs other cultural events are also held in the

churches. in linen abbey for instance rock concerts have been attracting young people for years. yet another instance of new life behind the old church was. the.

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