The Commemoration of Copernicus 1542*

Absolution at the Daily Office  

by 
the 

power 

of the 

Holy 

Spirit

keep us 

in 

eternal 

life 

"Copernicus, who was not a notably devout layman, was included on the calendar of  The Lutheran Book of Worship because of his contribution to the history of ideas that ultimately required Christianity to expand its understanding the the size of the 

 universe and to come to terms with the position of the Earth not at the center but as part of the solar system that is on the fringe of the universe. Copernicus thus taught Christians a new kind of humility before the cosmos."