Lent Vespers - March 14, 2018

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Order of Service

  • Prelude
  • Confession
  • Versicles & Gloria patri (led by the choir)
  • Office Hymn 273, The Royal Banners Forward Go
    vv. 1 & 5 – Choir / vv. 2 & 4 – All / v. 5 - Choir / vv. 6 & 7- All
  • Lesson: John 19:16b-27
  • Homily
  • Canticle: Nunc dimittis in d J. Stainer
  • Kyrie, Lord's Prayer
  • Hymn 584, Grant Peace, We Pray
  • The Collect, Benedicamus and Benediction (led by the choir)
  • Hymn 565, All Praise to Thee, My God, This Night
    v. 1 – Choir / vv. 2 & 3 - All
  • Choir: The Lord Bless You Lutkin
  • Postlude

Scripture

John 19:16b-27 Then Pilate delivered Him to them to be crucified. Then they took Jesus and led Him away. And He, bearing His cross, went out to a place called the Place of a Skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha, where they crucified Him, and two others with Him, one on either side, and Jesus in the center. Now Pilate wrote a title and put it on the cross. And the writing was: JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS. Then many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. Therefore the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, "Do not write, "The King of the Jews,' but, "He said, 'I am the King of the Jews." ' " Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written." Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took His garments and made four parts, to each soldier a part, and also the tunic. Now the tunic was without seam, woven from the top in one piece. They said therefore among themselves, "Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be," that the Scripture might be fulfilled which says: "They divided My garments among them, and for My clothing they cast lots." Therefore the soldiers did these things. Now there stood by the cross of Jesus His mother, and His mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus therefore saw His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing by, He said to His mother, "Woman, behold your son!" Then He said to the disciple, "Behold your mother!" And from that hour that disciple took her to his own home.

This Lent Service was held in Trinity Chapel at Bethany Lutheran College on Wednesday, March 14, 2018, at 5:30 p.m. Page and hymn numbers are from the Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary. Service ©2018, 2025 Bethany Lutheran College, Mankato, Minn.