LCMS Worship – Suggestions for midweek Lenten services – 2019
LCMS Worship provides suggestions for liturgy, psalms, readings, hymns and collects to use during midweek Lenten services.
The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod offers resources for planning worship services.
LCMS Worship – A Lenten Prayer – 2019
LCMS Worship provides “A Lenten Prayer” for congregations to use in worship services or for families to use during devotions. It is one of the older prayers of the Church from the Lutheran Reformation.
LCMS Worship – A Lenten Prayer – 2018
LCMS Worship provides “A Lenten Prayer” for congregations to use in worship services or for families to use during devotions.
LCMS Worship – Suggestions for 2018 midweek Lenten services
LCMS Worship provides suggestions for liturgy, psalms, readings, hymns and collects to use during midweek Lenten services.
LCMS Worship – Lectionary summary for Presentation of the Augsburg Confession commemoration
The lectionary summary for the Presentation of the Augsburg Confession was prepared by the Rev. Sean Daenzer.
Los Niños en el Servicio Divino — Boletines
“Los Niños en el Servicio Divino” es una serie de boletines para el Año Eclesiástico — Adviento, Navidad, Epifanía, Cuaresma, Pascua y Pentecostés.
Kids in the Divine Service – Bulletin insert series
Kids in the Divine Service is a series of bulletin inserts that complement the Lutheran Service Book. The final installment includes general information about 18 topics, including saints, rites, rubrics, stewards, acolytes and catechism.
LCMS Worship – Suggestions for midweek Lenten services – 2017
The LCMS suggests Lenten Midweek Propers, which pair selections from Isaiah’s Servant Songs with the Passion reading from St. Matthew.
LCMS Worship – Suggestions for midweek Lenten services – 2016
It is a worthy practice to devote time during the season of Lent to meditate extensively upon the Passion of our Lord. The following suggestions are framed around the reading of the Passion according to St. Luke, combined with an Old Testament reading emphasis upon God’s vindication of “the innocent sufferer.”
Table devotions for Lent
LCMS Worship offers the following as brief table devotions during the Lenten season.
LCMS Worship – Suggestions for midweek Lenten services – 2015
These selections can serve for midweek Vespers, Evening Prayer, or Service of Prayer and Preaching during Lent.
LCMS Interview with Dr. Norman Nagel
Dr. Nagel reflects on the comfort that comes from the means of grace delivering God’s promises to us in certainty. This video interview was filmed in the lovely chapel of Laclede Groves right after Easter, 2014.
Exsultet and the Preface for the Great Vigil of Easter
Learn how to chant the Exsultet and the Preface for the Great Vigil of Easter! Listen here to Pr. Sean Daenzer as he chants it for you.
Feast of the Purification of Mary
Pastors, this is one of the feasts that (sadly!) tends to be mostly observed only when it falls on Sunday, as it does this year. That means that many are tempted to speak the unfamiliar Proper Preface. If you’d like a little practice learning to sing it, listen here to Pr. Sean Daenzer as he sings it for you.
Pastors: Learn to chant the prefaces for Advent and Christmas
Listen as Pastor Sean Daenzer of Trinity Lutheran, Great Bend, N.D., and Peace Lutheran, Barney, N.D., chants the Advent and Christmas prefaces. Listen a few times through and you will have them down in no time!