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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;

Congregation:Song continues on next page

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:

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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.