High-Church Presbyterians?

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Was just curious- are there a type or version of Presbyterians who are more sacrimentally and liturgically high-Church? Obviously there are with anglicans, lutherans, maybe methodists- but Presbyterians?
 
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Was just curious- are there a type or version of Presbyterians who are more sacrimentally and liturgically high-Church? Obviously there are with anglicans, lutherans, maybe methodists- but Presbyterians?
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Not sure what you mean?

Have a way to conduct a Liturgy: Yes.

Have a Calendar and do thing accordingly: Yes.

Communion every Sunday: Not that I know of.

But having a standard way of doing something, yea, I think that’s actually the norm.
 
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Was just curious- are there a type or version of Presbyterians who are more sacrimentally and liturgically high-Church? Obviously there are with anglicans, lutherans, maybe methodists- but Presbyterians?
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Sure.

In Pittsburgh, here, the 1st Presbyterian Church in town distributes ashes on Ash Wednesday, just like we Catholics do.

And the East Liberty Presbyterian Church is the most Catholic looking ecclesiastical edifice in the region.
 
I’m not sure if the PCUSA church in my city had Ash Wed services but the one in a neighboring city did. I had considered attending Christmas Eve services with communion at the one in my city because other than RC vigils, a couple of 4pm family services in Episcopal churches, and large nondemominational churches, the PCUSA had one of the earliest times and my family was having Christmas Eve dinner. But then I didn’t because the Christmas Eve service I was told was going to have some special music and might run a bit longer. Speaking of Ash Wed, I also know of a UCC congregation that had services and a soup supper beforehand.

As far as Presbyterian, I found this order of worship on the main site of PCUSA if it is helpful.

pcusa.org/site_media/media/uploads/theologyandworship/pdfs/order_of_worship_brochure_dec_2008.pdf
 
I don’t know as much about Presbyterians, but they tend to be centered more around preaching than liturgy, so it would be harder to be a high-church Presbyterian in that sense. However, they do follow the Church season to an extent, so there is a bare-bones foundation for liturgy.

Anglicans, Lutherans, and to a lesser degree, Methodists are all liturgical by nature; this makes it much more conducive to having high-church liturgies.
 
Yeah, the Presbyterians and other Reformed believers were focussed on getting the ceremonial aspects, and particularly Catholic symbolism out of the liturgy. They tended to remove all vestments, tabernacles (of course), and sometimes even candles from the church.

It would be kind of hard to be “high church”.
 
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