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- Prelude
- Welcome and Invocation
- Collect
P: Father of mercy, by Your gracious Spirit guide and govern us that we may use Your spiritual and temporal gifts aright. Preserve the estates You have instituted both for the eternal salvation and the temporal welfare of mankind, and by Your mighty arm hinder and destroy that revolutionary spirit of anarchy that would subvert Your order, and keep us in Your Word. - Reading: Psalm 85:1-3, 7-13 View
P: LORD, you were favorable to Your land; C: You restored the fortunes of Jacob. P: You forgave the iniquity of Your people; C: You covered all their sin. P: You withdrew all Your wrath; C: You turned from Your hot anger. P: … Show us Your steadfast love, O LORD, C: And grant us Your salvation. P: Let me hear what God the LORD will speak, C: For He will speak peace to His people, to His saints; but let them not turn back to folly. P: Surely His salvation is near to those who fear Him, C: That glory may dwell in our land. P: Steadfast love and faithfulness meet; C: Righteousness and peace kiss each other. P: Faithfulness springs up from the ground, C: And righteousness looks down from the sky. P: Yes, the LORD will give what is good, C: And our land will yield its increase. P: Righteousness will go before Him C: And make His footsteps a way. ALL: Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost; as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, forevermore. Amen. - Hymn 418 - How Fair the Church of Christ Shall Stand View
vv. 1-4 & 6 - Homily
Text 1 Timothy 2: 1-4 - Collect
P: O Lord, we remember on this day the horrors of war and the mercies of Your providence in the past. We give you thanks for those who have served in the armed forces and the families that have loved them, missed their presence, interceded in prayer for them, and rejoiced in their return. Especially, though, we pray for those families who did not see their loved ones return because they gave their lives in defense of freedom and this land that we love. May we never forget the sacrifices that have been made for us by these courageous men and women. Lord of the nations, we pray, according to Your good and gracious will, that You would grant peace among nations in this time as well. Put into the hearts of rulers and nations the desire to avert bloodshed, strife, and selfishness, and cause all to see the folly of war. You guarantee to all eternal peace in Christ. May Your Gospel be proclaimed that the foundation of love may be laid in Christ Jesus, the Prince of Peace. In His name we ask it. (Lutheran Book of Prayer, Concordia Publishing House, p. 176) C: Amen. * The Lord’s Prayer - The Lord's Prayer (p. 125)
- Hymn 584 - Grant Peace, We Pray, in Mercy, Lord View