Merciful God, you showed your glory to our fallen race by sending your Son to confound the powers of death. Call us forth from sin’s dark tomb, and break the bonds which hold us, that we may believe and proclaim him who is the cause of our freedom and the source of our life; who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.
Merciful God, you showed your glory to our fallen race by sending your Son to confound the powers of death. Call us forth from sin’s dark tomb, and break the bonds which hold us, that we may believe and proclaim him who is the cause of our freedom and the source of our life; who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.
Merciful God, you showed your glory to our fallen race by sending your Son to confound the powers of death. Call us forth from sin’s dark tomb, and break the bonds which hold us, that we may believe and proclaim him who is the cause of our freedom and the source of our life; who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.
Merciful God, you showed your glory to our fallen race by sending your Son to confound the powers of death. Call us forth from sin’s dark tomb, and break the bonds which hold us, that we may believe and proclaim him who is the cause of our freedom and the source of our life; who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.
Merciful God, you showed your glory to our fallen race by sending your Son to confound the powers of death. Call us forth from sin’s dark tomb, and break the bonds which hold us, that we may believe and proclaim him who is the cause of our freedom and the source of our life; who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.
God our Creator, show forth your power in the midst of your people. Enlighten your Church, that we may know your Son as the true light of the world and through our worship confess him as Christ and Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, holy and mighty God now and forever. Amen
God our Creator, show forth your power in the midst of your people. Enlighten your Church, that we may know your Son as the true light of the world and through our worship confess him as Christ and Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, holy and mighty God now and forever. Amen
God our Creator, show forth your power in the midst of your people. Enlighten your Church, that we may know your Son as the true light of the world and through our worship confess him as Christ and Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, holy and mighty God now and forever. Amen
The livestream may be found here.
EVENING PRAYER
for Wednesday in 4 Lent
Vespers
Commemoration of Jonathan Edwards, Teacher and Missionary to the Native Americans
(Lutheran Book of Worship, p. 142)
God our Creator, show forth your power in the midst of your people. Enlighten your Church, that we may know your Son as the true light of the world and through our worship confess him as Christ and Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, holy and mighty God now and forever. Amen
God our Creator, show forth your power in the midst of your people. Enlighten your Church, that we may know your Son as the true light of the world and through our worship confess him as Christ and Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, holy and mighty God now and forever. Amen
God our Creator, show forth your power in the midst of your people. Enlighten your Church, that we may know your Son as the true light of the world and through our worship confess him as Christ and Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, holy and mighty God now and forever.
Amen
'We are not worker-bees to be used up and discarded, but stewards of what has been entrusted to us, and what a great treasure has been entrusted, the sum total of our lives. And such a baptismal identity demands thought and only a thinking person can make responsible choices before God. '
God our Creator, show forth your power in the midst
of your people. Enlighten your Church,
that we may know your Son as the true light of the world and through our
worship confess him as Christ and Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the
Holy Spirit, holy and mighty God now and forever.
Amen
Eternal God, your kingdom has broken into our troubled world through the life, death, and resurrection of your Son. Help us to hear your Word and obey it, so that we become instruments of your redeeming love; through your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.
Amen
Opening Prayer:
Amen
Opening Prayer:
Amen
The livestream may be found here.
EVENING PRAYER
for Wednesday in 3 Lent
Vespers
Commemoration of Patrick, bishop, missionary to Ireland (transferred from March 17)
(Lutheran Book of Worship, page 142)
Opening Prayer:
Amen
Opening Prayer:
Amen
not for water, not for love, not even for forgiveness, but for truth.
And Jesus, by revealing the truth about her,
has given her the hope that he might be able to reveal the truth
about other things as well.'
Opening Prayer:
Amen
Opening Prayer:
Amen
Opening Prayer:
Amen
Opening Prayer:
Amen
Opening Prayer:
Amen
The livestream may be found here.
EVENING PRAYER
for Wednesday in 2 Lent
Vespers
Commemoration of Perpetua and her Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 202 (transferred from March 7)
(Lutheran Book of Worship, page 142)
Amen
O God and Father, in the waters of baptism you bring us to new birth to live as your children. Strengthen our faith in your promises, that by your Spirit we may lift up your life to all the world; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.
Amen
'[T]o enter the kingdom of God is really not a choice we can make for ourselves.
We are utterly powerless in the one thing
that can make an eternal difference to us.
To be born, whether once, again, or from above,
is completely outside of our control.'
Opening Prayer:
O God and Father, in the waters of baptism you bring us to new birth to live as your children. Strengthen our faith in your promises, that by your Spirit we may lift up your life to all the world; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.
Amen
READINGS: Jeremiah 1:11-19; Romans 1:1-15; John 4:27-42
LORD'S PRAYER
APOSTLES' CREED
Martin Luther's Morning Prayer:
I thank you, heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ your dear Son,
that you have kept me this night from all harm and danger.
I ask you to keep me this day, also, from sin and every evil,
that my thoughts, words, and deeds may serve and please you.
Into your hands I commend my body and soul and all things.
Let your angel be with me,
that the evil one have no power over me. Amen
OR -
Martin Luther's Evening Prayer
I thank you, heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ your dear Son,
that you have graciously kept me this day.
I ask you to forgive me my sins and the wrong I have done,
and graciously to keep me this night.
Into your hands I commend my body and soul and all things.
Let your angel be with me,
that the evil one have no power over me. Amen
The livestream may be found here.
EVENING PRAYER
for Wednesday in 1 Lent
Vespers
Commemoration of George Herbert, Priest, 1633
(Lutheran Book of Worship, page 142)
George Herbert, a model of the saintly parish priest, in his short life made a lasting contribution to the Christian church and to English literature... He served as a member of Parliament for Montgomery from 1624-25, but the death of his patron, James I, together with the influence of his friend Nicholas Ferrar, whose religious community called Little Gidding he frequently visited, led him to decide upon the study of divinity... In April 1630, he was ordained and served a tiny rural parish for three years... His English poems were published shortly after his death in a collection called The Temple. He also wrote A Priest in the Temple; or the Country Parson, a simple and moving description of the parish pastor as well-read, temperate, given to prayer, devoted to his people: 'Now love is his business and aim.'
- Philip Pfatteicher, New Festivals and Commemorations
