Formuły spowiednie w XX-wiecznych agendach i śpiewnikach polskiego luteranizmu

Church’s liturgical life is marked out by agendas and song books (hymnals), which shape the worship practice, church members’ spirituality and piety forms. An important part of this process is also the confession practice, consisting in confessing sins and absolution, and specified by the liturgical formulas. In the 20th century Polish Lutheranism shaped its confession practice through three main sets of agendas and song books. First of them was the 1889 agenda, supplemented by a hymnal from 1899. After the 2nd World War the confession practice was determined by the 1955 agenda and 1956 song book, replaced in 1965 with the new edition. Last stage of shaping the liturgical practice was publishing the agenda in 1995, and a song book (2002). Source analysis has shown that confession was present through general confession formulas, which were above all a preparation for the Holy Communion, and partly by Confiteor – a liturgical penance act and confession of sins.