Commencement Vespers - Thursday, May 8, 2025

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Order of Service

  • Prelude
  • Hymn 16 - From All That Dwell Below the Skies View
  • The Versicles (pp. 120-121)
    led by Concert Choir
  • Ubi caritas
    Concert Choir
  • Reading: John 8:31-32 View
    Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
  • Arise, My Soul, Arise
    Mary Martha Singers
  • Homily
  • Hymn 35 - All Glory Be To God On High View
  • The Kyrie (p. 124)
  • The Lord's Prayer (p. 125)
  • Hymn 584 - Grant Peace, We Pray, in Mercy, Lord View
  • The Collect (pp. 125-127)
  • The Benedicamus (p. 127)
  • The Benediction (p. 127)
  • Hymn 2 - Come, Holy Ghost, God and Lord View
  • Announcement
    President Gene R. Pfeifer
  • Postlude
This Commencement Vespers Service was held in Trinity Chapel at Bethany Lutheran College on Thursday, May 8, 2025, at 7:30 p.m. Page and hymn numbers are from the Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary. Service ©2025 Bethany Lutheran College, Mankato, Minn.