Candlelight outside Christ Episcopal Church on a dark November evening signaled the remembrance of Kristallnacht, observed annually with Trinity Lutheran and three synagogues in Reading, Pa.
Through
readings, music and prayer, the service recalled the “Night of Broken
Glass” in 1938 when mobs and Nazi storm troopers began their assault on
the Jews of Germany and Austria. Kristallnacht participants gathered
“to remember that which must never be repeated,” hallowing the memories
of those who lost their lives in the Holocaust.
The service is one example of how Episcopalians and Lutherans have cooperated since the approval of Called to Common Mission
by the ELCA in 1999 and the Episcopal Church in 2000. The agreement
puts the two U.S. churches in a “full communion” relationship, which
allows for joint ministry and the sharing of clergy.
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