Evening Vespers - November 19, 2014

Order of Service

  • Prelude
  • Confession
  • Versicles & Gloria patri, (led by the choir)
  • Hymn 452:1-4 Out of the Depths I Cry to Thee
  • Choir: My Soul, There Is a Country- Songs of Farewell C.H.H. Parry
  • My soul, there is a country, far beyond the stars,
Where stands a wingèd sentry, All skillful in the wars.There, above noise and danger, Sweet peace sits crowned with smiles,
And One born in a manger Commands the beauteous files. He is thy gracious Friend, And (O my soul, awake!)
Did in pure love descend, To die here for thy sake. If thou canst get but thither, There grows the flower of peace,
The Rose that cannot wither, Thy Fortress, and thy Ease.

    Leave, then, thy foolish ranges; For none can thee secure
But One, who never changes, Thy God, thy Life, thy Cure.

    H. Vaughan, Silex Scintillans, or Sacred Poems, 1650

  • Lesson: John 15:1-6
  • Homily
  • Hymn 541, vv. 1, 2, 4 & 8 Jerusalem, Thou City Fair and High
  • Choir Canticle: Gratias Agimus Tibi fr. Mass in b minor J.S. Bach,
  • Gratias agimus tibi propter magnam gloriam tuam.

    We give thanks to Thee for Thy great glory.

  • Collect "Abide With Us…"
  • Benedicamus etc., (led by the choir)
  • Postlude
This Vespers Service was held in Trinity Chapel at Bethany Lutheran College on Wednesday, November 19, 2014, at 5:30 p.m. Page and hymn numbers are from the Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary. Service ©2014, 2025 Bethany Lutheran College, Mankato, Minn.