Prayer, worship and spirituality are integral parts of the life the ecumenical movement. The Charta Oecumenica states that “the ecumenical movement lives from our hearing God’s word and letting the Holy Spirit work in us and through us”. Therefore the European Churches commit themselves “to pray for one another and for Christian unity… to learn to know and appreciate the worship and other forms of spiritual life practised by other churches” (Charta Oecumenica, 5).

In this section of the CEC website we would like to offer some worship resources from the ecumenical movement, as well as from the different traditions of our member churches.

Choose Life : An anthology of liturgical material on climate change from the UK for the Creation Time 2008 from September 1 to the second Sunday of October 2008

Time for God's Creation Throughout the year the Church is invited to recall in a special way each of God’s great deeds in Jesus Christ. Each year we are led from Advent, Christmas and Epiphany to Lent, Good Friday, Easter, Ascension Day and Pentecost, and when the Advent Season returns, we not only prepare for Christmas, but pray for the coming of God’s kingdom...

Biblical Meditations and Prayers for the Creation Time 2006
European Christian Environmental Network (ECEN)

Sermon on the occasion of the Installation of Colin Williams, by The Very Reverend Margarethe Isberg, CEC Deputy Vice-President

Meditation
- Meditation on International Women's Day, 8 March 2005, by Eva-Sibylle Vogel-Mfato

Psalm 69
- translation from the perspective of a woman trafficked into forced prostitution - by Eva-Sibylle Vogel-Mfato