Separate material has been produced for various night services, such as Easter and Christmas night. One extra day is devoted to the Virgin Mary, the 4th Sunday in Advent. Special attention has been paid to prayer. The aim is to get as close as possible to people's everyday situations, their causes for care and thanksgiving. Excessive solemnity has been removed from the kind of language used.
Silence is seen as one of the basic elements of worship.
Influences from liturgical reform in other Western churches are included, but the proposal is based on our own national tradition. The communion service can once again be called the mass and so link up with the Western tradition. A new feature is the appendix to the gospel lectionary, a commemoration day calendar with name days devoted to prominent figures of church history and church events. Commemoration days have been allocated to leading figures of the Finnish revival movements and to martyrs of the Ingrian church. The interest of the general public has been aroused by the commemoration calendar in particular.