October is the month of the Reformation organized by the Ecumenical Council of Hungarian Churches (MEÖT) across the country. The series of programs traditionally ends on October 31, the Memorial Day of the Reformation.
According to MEÖT's information sent to MTI, the central opening ceremony will take place on Friday evening at six o'clock in Budapest, in the Deák Square Lutheran Church. At the service, József Steinbach, bishop of the Transdanubia Reformed Church District, president of the MEÖT, will preach, and the chief pastors of the member churches will participate in the liturgy.
The highlight of the program series is the Reformation Gala at the Uránia National Film Theater in Budapest on October 17. At the gala evening, Levente Magyar, the parliamentary state secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, will give a lecture entitled The International Impact of the Reformation, they announced.
As part of the ceremony, the Protestant Journalists' Association award, the Mátyás Ráth Award, will be presented.
Among the central programs is the regional women's meeting on October 2, which this year will be held in the Reformed pastor's office in Szeged, and its theme will be the communion table.
On October 10, an ecumenical mission day will be organized in the Lutheran church in Szombathely.
On October 24, there will be a reformation service at the Center of the Hungarian Methodist Church, at which Albert Pataky, president of the Hungarian Pentecostal Church, vice-president of the MEÖT, will preach.
The traditional commemoration that closes the month of the Reformation will be held on October 31 in the Reformation Memorial Park in Budapest, at the corner of Bajza utca and the Városligeti forest row.
This year's motto of the event series comes from the apostle Paul's letter to the Jews: ".pay attention to the apostle and high priest of our confession, Jesus".
The Memorial Day of the Reformation is held on October 31, commemorating the fact that the German Augustinian monk Martin Luther nailed his theses to the gate of the Wittenberg Castle Church in 1517. The new trend led by Luther became evangelical, while the trend led by the Genevan reformer Jean Calvin is the basis of the Reformed religion.
Founded in 1943, MEÖT is the Hungarian organization of the Geneva-based World Council of Churches, and is also an associate member of the Conference of European Churches, through which it participates in the work of church representation working alongside the European Union and the Council of Europe. The organization has 11 member churches, and several denominations, including the Hungarian Catholic Church, participate in the work with a cooperative status.
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