page_title: Liturgical calendar (Lutheran)
section_title: In Scandinavian countries
hierarchical_section_title: Liturgical calendar (Lutheran) / Historical development / Reformation era / In Scandinavian countries
context_page_description: The Lutheran liturgical calendar is a listing which details the primary annual festivals and events that are celebrated liturgically by various Lutheran churches. The calendars of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada are from the 1978 Lutheran Book of Worship and the calendar of Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod and the Lutheran Church - Canada use the Lutheran Book of Worship and the 1982 Lutheran Worship. Elements unique to the ELCA have been updated from the Lutheran Book of Worship to reflect changes resulting from the publication of Evangelical Lutheran Worship in 2006. The elements of the calendar unique to the LCMS have also been updated from Lutheran Worship and the Lutheran Book of Worship to reflect the 2006 publication of the Lutheran Service Book.
  The basic element to the calendar is Sunday, which is a festival of Jesus’ resurrection. However, Christian Churches have historically observed other festivals which commemorate events in the life of Jesus or of significant individuals in the history of the Church.
context_section_description: When the Lutheran Reformation was brought to Sweden from Germany via Denmark after the election of Gustav Vasa in 1523, the movement from the start had its own distinct characteristics.  The development of Swedish liturgy was, in part, thanks to Olavus Petri, which is sometimes regarded as his most important work.  His Swedish Mass, 1531 remained in use, with only slight modifications, until the twentieth century.  The Swedish Mass draws from a number of different sources, though Luther’s Formulae Missae is apparent in regards to the Eucharistic structure  This included revising the calendar along similar lines as those in Germany.  Laurentius Petri further revised the Swedish Mass 1557.  In large part, the Swedish liturgy retained “vestments, altars and frontals, gold and silver chalices and patens” and many other “popish” customs.  Following Laurentius’ death in 1573, King John III embarked on a separate, though similar, religious policy more conciliatory towards Catholicism.  Much of his work was in the area of liturgy and  his Nova Ordinantia reinstated much of the sanctoral cycle from the Old Swedish Mass, reviving the feasts of St. Mary Magdalene, St. Lawrence, Corpus Christi, and the Assumption and Nativity of the Virgin Mary.  Many of John’s reforms were controversial.
caption: Martin Luther, commemorated on February 18[27]
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