Evening Vespers - February 8, 2017

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Order of Service

  • Prelude
  • Confession of Sin
  • Hymn 40, v. 1, Isaiah, Mighty Seer
  • Versicles & Gloria patri (led by the choir)
  • Psalmody: Psalm 84, choral setting by C. H. H. Parry (Myles Coverdale translation)
    O how amiable are thy dwellings, thou Lord of hosts! My soul hath a desire and longing to enter into the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh rejoice in the living God.
    Yea, the sparrow hath found her an house, and the swallow a nest, where she may lay her young, even thy altars, O Lord of hosts, my King and my God. Blessed are they that dwell in thy house; they will be always praising thee. Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee, in whose heart are thy ways, who going through the vale of misery use it for a well; and the pools are filled with water. They will go from strength to strength, and unto the God of gods appeareth every one of them in Sion. O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer; hearken, O God of Jacob. Behold, O God our defender, and look upon the face of thine Anointed. For one day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of ungodliness. For the Lord God is a light and defence; the Lord will give grace and worship, and no good thing shall he withhold from them that live a godly life. O Lord God of hosts, blessed is the man that putteth his trust in thee.
Glory be to the Father…
  • Lesson: Isaiah 6:1-8
  • Homily
  • Versicle (led by the choir) & Nunc dimittis
  • Kyrie, Lord's Prayer
  • Hymn 584, Grant Peace, We Pray
  • The Collect
  • Benedicamus & Benediction
  • Hymn 331, v. 10, And When Thy Glory I Shall See
  • Postlude

Scripture

Isaiah 6:1-8 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple. Above it stood seraphim; each one had six wings: with two he covered his face, with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. And one cried to another and said: "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; The whole earth is full of His glory!" And the posts of the door were shaken by the voice of him who cried out, and the house was filled with smoke. So I said: "Woe is me, for I am undone! Because I am a man of unclean lips, And I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; For my eyes have seen the King, The LORD of hosts." Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a live coal which he had taken with the tongs from the altar. And he touched my mouth with it, and said: "Behold, this has touched your lips; Your iniquity is taken away, And your sin purged." Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: "Whom shall I send, And who will go for Us?" Then I said, "Here am I! Send me."

This Vespers Service was held in Trinity Chapel at Bethany Lutheran College on Wednesday, February 8, 2017, at 5:30 p.m. Page and hymn numbers are from the Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary. Service ©2017, 2025 Bethany Lutheran College, Mankato, Minn.