Image - Worship pattern of the Moravians, in Bethlehem, on the Sabbath and Sunday - in the 1750’s?

Sabbath

6 AM     - The Morning Blessing - no sermon

11 AM   - Sabbath lovefeast of the children

12 PM   - Sabbath lovefeast of the entire congregation

2 PM     -  Liturgy for Widowers, Widows and children

8 PM     - Congregational service with a sermon based on the Daily Text

9 PM     - The night blessing

Sunday

6 AM      - The Church Litany

11 AM    - English service with sermon

1 PM      - Suckling children’s service

1:30 PM - Children’s service and then a sermon

2 PM      - Reading of the Gemein Nachrichten (congregational news)

7 PM      - song service with sermon

8 PM      -  Litany of the Life and Sufferings of Jesus or the Hymns of the Wounds of Jesus followed by the evening blessing.

Adapted from the Bethlehem Diary (Moravian Archives) June 30, 1752.