Evening Vespers - November 14, 2012

Order of Service

  • Prelude
  • Confession, Versicles & Gloria patri
  • Psalm 130
  • Lesson: I Thess. 5:1-10
  • Hymn 532, v. 2, Jesus, My Redeemer Lives
    Choir: For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He that shall endure to the end shall be saved. - John 3:17, Matthew 10:22 (setting by Gostelow)
  • Hymn 532, vv. 8 & 9, Then Take Comfort…
  • Homily
  • Canticle: Nunc dimittis in G - Stanford
  • Kyrie, Lord's Prayer
  • Hymn 584, Grant Peace, We Pray
  • Collect, Benedicamus & Benediction
  • Postlude

Scripture

I Thess. 5:1-10 But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you. For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. For when they say, "Peace and safety!" then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape. But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief. You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober. For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night. But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation. For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him.

This Vespers Service was held in Trinity Chapel at Bethany Lutheran College on Wednesday, November 14, 2012, at 5:30 p.m. Page and hymn numbers are from the Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary. Service ©2012, 2025 Bethany Lutheran College, Mankato, Minn.