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16th Weekend of PentecostSeptember 16th & 17th, 2012
A Brief History of “The Lutheran Hymnal”
In 1941, Concordia Publishing House in St. Louis, Missouri, produced “The Lutheran Hymnal.”It was authorized by the Synods constituting the Evangelical Lutheran Synod Conference ofNorth America.
From 1941 to 1993, The Lutheran Hymnal was the hymnal used by our Wisconsin SynodLutheran Churches. Several generations grew up memorizing and using both the liturgies andhymns found in this hymnal.
In 1983, the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod determined to produce a “new/revised”hymnal. The goal was to produce a hymnal that “was neither something entirely new nor a rigidadherence to the old.”
In The Lutheran Hymnal, there were two main liturgies that were used on a Sunday morning.They were “The Order of Morning Service,” (Page 5) and “The Order of HolyCommunion” (Page 15). At times, the orders of service were simply referred to as “page 5” or“page 15.”The Scripture Readings were also read from the King James Version of the Bible. Much of theservice adapted the King James’ wording as well.
Even though Christian Worship: A Lutheran Hymnal has been used by many of our WisconsinSynod Lutheran Churches for nearly 20 years, there are people today who will still refer to “TheLutheran Hymnal” as “the old hymnal” or “the red hymnal” or “the blue hymnal.”
“The Common Service” found in Christian Worship is a revision of the familiar “Page 5 & 15”services from The Lutheran Hymnal.
The Worship Service
The Word, “Liturgy,” means “Service.” In a very real sense, our whole life as a Christian is tobe our “liturgy,” our “service.” In a worship service, however, the larger liturgy of our wholeChristian life comes to a joyful focus. God comes to us, speaks to us and blesses us through HisWord and Sacrament. We come to Him and speak to Him in prayer and praise and thanksgiving.The Service is the recurring moment of high splendor in our earthly lives, a God-given foretaste
of the heavenly life to come.
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THE OPENING HYMN
This hymn is basedon Matthew 11:28.
William Dix, theauthor of this
hymn, speaks aboutthe occasion that
moved him to writethis hymn: “I was
ill and depressed atthe time, and it wasalmost to idle away
the hours that Iwrote the hymn. I
had been ill formany weeks, and
felt weary andfaint, and the hymn
really expressesthe languidness ofbody from which I
was suffering atthe time. Soon after
its composition Irecovered, and I
always look backto that hymn as theturning point in my
illness.”
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The Congregation shall rise, and the Minister shall say:
THE INVOCATION
Minister: In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.Congregation:
THE CONFESSION OF SINS
Minister: Beloved in the Lord! Let us draw near with a true heart andconfess our sins unto God, our Father, beseeching Him in thename of our Lord Jesus Christ to grant us forgiveness.Our help is in the name of the Lord.
Congregation:
Minister: I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord.Congregation:
With the very firstwords of theLiturgy, we
invoke the nameof the Triune
God. May all wedo and say in the
Service honorthat God who
made us His ownand gave us His
name when wewere baptized.
As we approachthe Lord in our
worship, wesense the wide
gulf betweenGod in His
holiness and usin our
sinfulness.Therefore, here
at the verybeginning of ourService, we want
to lay our sinson Jesus and beassured that for
His sake Goddoes not
condemn us forour wickedness,but forgives and
forgets.
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Then the Minister and the Congregation shall say:
All: O almighty God, merciful Father, I, a poor miserable sinner,confess unto Thee all my sins and iniquities with which I have everoffended Thee and justly deserved Thy temporal and eternalpunishment. But I am heartily sorry for them and sincerely repentof them, and I pray Thee of Thy boundless mercy and for the sakeof the holy, innocent, bitter sufferings and death of Thy belovedSon, Jesus Christ, to be gracious and merciful to me, a poor sinfulbeing.
Then the Minister shall pronounce the Absolution
THE ABSOLUTION
Minister: Upon this your confession, I, by virtue of my office, as a calledand ordained servant of the Word, announce the grace of Godunto all of you, in the name of the Father and of the Son and ofthe Holy Ghost.
THE INTROIT
The Minister shall speak the Introit
Minister: Make haste, O God, to deliver me: make haste to help me, OLord. Let them be ashamed and confounded: that seek after mysoul.
(Ps.) While I live will I praise the Lord: I will sing praises untomy God while I have any being.
With the Introit,we welcome our
Lord, humblyseeking His gifts,and praising Himfor His greatness
and His grace.
The Psalm versesof the Introit
sound the keynoteor theme of the
particular day’sService and paint
the way for allthat will follow in
the rest ofworship.
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GLORIA PATRITHE KYRIE
The little hymn ofpraise called the
Gloria Patri ispart of the
Introit.
In the Kyrie, weapproach our
Lord with a cryfor help in all
the needs of ourearthly life.
Kyrie, Eleisonwe sing — Lord,
have mercy onus.
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THE GLORIA IN EXCELSIS
In the Gloria inExcelsis, we
rejoice in ourLord who came
to earth to bringus His peace.“Glory be toGod on high,and on earth
peace, good willtoward men.”
So sang theChristmas
angels the nightGod became
man. We, too,would sing thisheavenly song,
for He was bornfor us!
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THE SALUTATION AND THE COLLECT
Minister: The Lord be with you.Congregation:
Minister: Let us pray. Almighty and merciful God, of whose only gift itcometh that Thy faithful people do unto Thee true and laudableservice, grant, we beseech Thee, that we may so faithfully serveThee in this life that we fail not finally to attain Thy heavenlypromises; through Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord, who livethand reignest with the Father and the Holy Ghost, ever one God,world without end.
Congregation:
The congregation shall be seated
In the Collect,we come to ourLord in prayerto ask Him one
special,significant
blessing for thisday’s service.
Just before theCollect, thepastor and
people greeteach other by
praying foreach other.
THE EPISTLE - JAMES 1:17-27
Minister: The Epistle for the 16th weekend of Pentecost is written in thefirst chapter of James, beginning at the seventeenth verse:
17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comethdown from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neithershadow of turning. 18 Of his own will begat he us with the word oftruth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. 19
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow tospeak, slow to wrath: 20 For the wrath of man worketh not the
The first Wordof God, we hearis the “Epistle,”
chosen usuallyfrom the New
Testamentletters of St.
Paul or one ofthe otherApostles.
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righteousness of God. 21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness andsuperfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engraftedword, which is able to save your souls. 22 But be ye doers of the word,and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. 23 For if any be ahearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding hisnatural face in a glass: 24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way,and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. 25 But whosolooketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he beingnot a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessedin his deed. 26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridlethnot his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visitthe fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himselfunspotted from the world. (KJV)
Minister: Here endeth the Epistle.
THE GRADUAL & HALLELUJAH
Minister: I will bless the Lord at all times: His praise shall continually bein my mouth. My soul shall make her boast in the Lord: thehumble shall hear thereof and be glad. Hallelujah! Hallelujah!Sing aloud unto God, our Strength: make a joyful noise untothe God of Jacob. Hallelujah!
Congregation:
When Godspeaks to us inHis Word, it is
natural for us torespond. We
sing,“Hallelujah” —
“Praise theLord” — or
anotherexpression ofpraise for the
Words we haveheard.
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The Congregation shall rise.The Minister shall announce the Gospel for the Day:
THE GOSPEL—MARK 7:31-37
Minister: The Holy Gospel is written in the seventh chapter of St. Mark,beginning at the thirty-first verse:
Congregation:
31 And again, departing from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, he cameunto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis. 32
And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment inhis speech; and they beseech him to put his hand upon him. 33 And hetook him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, andhe spit, and touched his tongue; 34 And looking up to heaven, he sighed,and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened. 35 And straightwayhis ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and hespake plain. 36 And he charged them that they should tell no man: butthe more he charged them, so much the more a great deal theypublished it; 37 And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hathdone all things well: he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb tospeak. (KJV)
Minister: Here endeth the Gospel.
Congregation:
The Gospel forthe Day is
chosen from theGospels of
Matthew, Mark,Luke or John.
Here we have apicture gallery
of the life of ourLord,
portraying Hisworks of power
and love andbringing us
words from Hisown lips.
Thecongregationstands for thereading of theGospel. In thepast, soldiers
put down theirweapons and
kings removedtheir crowns
when theGospel was
read.
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Then shall be said together:
THE NICENE CREED
I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earthand of all things visible and invisible.
And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begottenof His Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, VeryGod of Very God, Begotten, not made, Being of One of onesubstance with the Father, By whom all things were made; Who forus men and for our salvation came down from heaven And wasincarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary And was mademan; And was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate. Hesuffered and was buried; And the third day He rose againaccording to the Scriptures; And ascended into heaven And sittethon the right hand of the Father; And He shall come again withglory to judge the quick and the dead; Whose kingdom shall haveno end.
And I believe in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and Giver of Life, whoproceedeth from the Father and the Son, Who with the Father andthe Son together is worshiped and glorified, Who spake by theProphets. And I believe one holy Christian and Apostolic Church. Iacknowledge one Baptism for the remission of sins, And I look forthe resurrection of the dead, And the life of the world to come.Amen.
The congregation shall be seated
CONGREGATION HYMNHymn continues on next page
When God hasspoken to us and
revealed Hissalvation, whatshall w say but,
“Lord, Ibelieve .” This we
do in one of theancient creeds ofthe Church, TheNicene Creed is a
corporateconfession of the
Church in defenseof the pure
teachings of theScriptures on theTriune God, withspecial emphasis
given to thepriesthood ofJesus Christ.
This hymn byIsaac Watts was
first published insix stanzas in his
“The Psalms ofDavid” (1719) as
a metricalparaphrase of
Psalm 103:1-7.
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In theOffertory we
offer the Lordour hearts,asking Himfor that best
gifts, the HolySpirit.
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The Sermon ……………………………..……………………..Isaiah 35:4-7a
4 “Say to those with fearful hearts, "Be strong, do not fear; your God will come, he willcome with vengeance; with divine retribution he will come to save you." 5 Then will theeyes of the blind be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped. 6 Then will the lame leaplike a deer, and the mute tongue shout for joy. Water will gush forth in the wilderness andstreams in the desert. 7 The burning sand will become a pool, the thirsty ground bubblingsprings. (NIV)
The sermon ended, the congregation shall rise and join in singing:
THE OFFERTORY
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The congregation shall be seated
The Offering
During the Offering, we invite everyone to sign the Friendship Registers in each pew.
The Offering PrayerThe Congregation shall rise
The PrayersTHE PREFACE
Minister: The Lord be with you.
Minister: Lift up your hearts.
In gratitude to theLord, we offer the
Lord the gift ofmoney,
remembering thatHe has first given to
us that we mighthave to give to Him
Now we approachthe second highpoint
of the Liturgy, theSacrament, in which
the Lord comes tobless us with His
very body andblood.
The Preface arewords of dialogue
between the ministerand the
congregation. Thisis one of the oldestparts of the liturgy.
These words werealready spoken bythe year 200 AD.
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Minister: Let us give thanks unto the Lord, our God.
THE PROPER PREFACES
Minister: It is truly meet, right and salutary that we should at all timesand all in places give thanks unto Thee, O Lord, holy Father,almighty, everlasting God: Who with Thine only-begotten Sonand the Holy Ghost art one God, one Lord. And in theconfession of the only true God we worship the Trinity inPerson and the Unity in Substance, of Majesty coequal.Therefore with angels and archangels and with all the companyof heaven we laud and magnify Thy glorious name, evermorepraising Thee and saying:
THE SANCTUS
Song continues on next page In the hymncalled the “The
Sanctus” we joinour voices to theangels who sing,
“Holy, Holy,Holy” round
about His throneand we welcome
Him with thePalm Sunday
multitude whosang, “Blessed is
He that comethin the name of theLord. Hosanna in
the Highest.”
These responsivewords anticipatethe forthcomingreception of themeans of grace.
They lead thecongregation intothe “Holy, Holy,
Holy,” theseraphim’s songfrom Isaiah 6:3,
the words ofheavenly worship.
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THE LORD’S PRAYER
Minister: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy name; Thykingdom come; Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven;Give us this day our daily bread; And forgive us ourtrespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; Andlead us not into temptation; But deliver us from evil;
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Before we recallthe Words ofInstitution by
which our Lordassured to His
Church the realpresence of His
sacramental bodyand blood for all
time, we pray thatprayer which the
Lord Himselftaught us to pray.
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THE WORDS OF INSTITUTION
Minister: Our Lord Jesus Christ, the same night in which He wasbetrayed, took bread; and when he had given thanks, He brakeit and gave it to His disciples, saying, “Take, eat; this is Mybody, which is given for you. This do in remembrance of Me.”
After the same manner also He took the cup when He hadsupped, and when He had given thanks, He gave it to them,saying, “Drink ye all of it; this cup is the New Testament in Myblood, which is shed for you for the remission of sins. This do,as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of Me.”
THE PAX DOMINI
Minister: The peace of the Lord be with you alway!
Congregation:
Followinghistorical custom
(1 Cor, 10:16) ,the minister
directs attentionto the earthly
elements of breadand wine and,
with the Lord’swords of
institution,consecrates or set
them aside forsacred use in theSacrament. Thewords are not amagic formula
that brings abouta change in the
elements.
The presence ofJesus’ body and
blood comes withSacrament
through thegracious working
of the Lord,whose promise is
connected withthese words.
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THE AGNUS DEI
The congregation shall be seatedAs we approach
the Table ofForgiveness, we
want to think onlyof that Lamb of
God who wassacrificed for us on
Calvary’s cross.We sing the
“Agnus Dei,” the“Lamb of God,”
and then partake ofHis body and
blood, comfortedand assured by the
promise of ourLord, “Given andshed FOR YOU.”
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THE DISTRIBUTION
Today we celebrate the Lord’s Supper. The Lord’s Supper is a miracle. ByGod’s power, the Lord’s body and blood are with the bread and wine. Inthe Lord’s Supper, God gives strength and comfort to His believers. Whilethe Lord’s Supper is first about our relationship with Jesus, it is also aboutour relationship with fellow believers. Therefore, we practice “closecommunion.” We invite all who are members of St. Paul’s or visitors whobelong to our WELS fellowship to receive the Lord’s Supper with us. If youwould like to learn more about being a member of our family at St. Paul’s,please feel free to contact one of the pastors.
THE DISTRIBUTION HYMN
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The Distribution ended, all shall rise and sing:
THE NUNC DIMITTISSong continues on next page
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We have tasted ofthe Lord’sgoodness,
received Hisblessings both in
Word andSacrament. Our
final response inthe Liturgy is one
of thanksgiving.We sing with
Simeon of old:“Lord, now lettestThou Thy servant
depart in peace,for mine eyes
have seen Thysalvation.” .
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The responsiveuse of the Psalm
verse, “O givethanks to the
Lord, for he isgood. And his
mercy enduresforever,”expresses
heartfelt thanks toGod for the giftjust received inthe Sacrament.
THE THANKSGIVING
Minister: Oh, give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good.
Congregation:
Minister: We give thanks to Thee, Almighty God, that Thou hastrefreshed us through this salutary gift; and we beseech Theethat of Thy mercy Thou wouldst strengthen us through thesame in faith toward Thee and in fervent love toward oneanother; through Jesus Christ, our Lord, who liveth andreigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, ever one God, worldwithout end.
Congregation:
The Congregation shall be seated
With a finalprayer of thanksand responses ofpraise, we await
the Lord’sBenediction.
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CONGREGATION HYMN
The Congregation Shall Rise and the Minister shall say:
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Minister: The Lord be with you.Congregation:
Minister: Bless we the Lord.Congregation:
THE BENEDICTION
Minister: The Lord bless thee and keep thee.The Lord make his face shine upon thee and be gracious untothee.The Lord lift up His countenance upon thee and give theepeace.
Congregation:
The congregation shall be seated
22 The Lord saidto Moses, 23 "Tell
Aaron and hissons, 'This is how
you are to blessthe Israelites. Sayto them: 24 "'"The
Lord bless youand keep you; 25
the Lord make hisface shine upon
you and begracious to you;26 the Lord turnhis face toward
you and give youpeace." 27 "So
they will put myname on the
Israelites, and Iwill bless them."(Numbers 6:22-27)
Today we still usethe blessing thatAaron used with
the children ofIsrael.
May the blessingof the Lord bring
us all peace.
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