Fifth Sunday of Easter

 

May 10, 2020                                                                Matins, p 219

 

Opening Hymn: 477 Alleluia, Alleluia! Hearts of Heaven

Text (sts. 1, 3) and tune: Public domain

Text (st. 2): © 1982 The Jubilate Group, admin. Hope Publishing Co. Used by permission: LSB Hymn License no. 110004659

 

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Psalmody

 

Antiphon (Common)                                                           LSB 220

 

Venite                                                                                LSB 220

 

Antiphon (Common)                                                           LSB 221

 

Psalm 146                                                                      antiphon: v. 2

¹Praise the Lord!
Praise the Lord, O my soul!
²I will praise the Lord as long as I live;
   I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.

³Put not your trust in princes,
   in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation.
⁴When his breath departs he returns to the earth;
   on that very day his plans perish.

⁵Blessèd is he whose help is the God of Jacob,
   whose hope is in the Lord his God,
⁶who made heaven and earth,
   the sea, and all that is in them,
who keeps faith forever;
   ⁷who executes justice for the oppressed,
   who gives food to the hungry.

The Lord sets the prisoners free;
   ⁸the Lord opens the eyes of the blind.
The Lord lifts up those who are bowed down;
   the Lord loves the righteous.
⁹The Lord watches over the sojourners;
   he upholds the widow and the fatherless,
   but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.

¹⁰The Lord will reign forever,
   your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise the Lord!

C Glory be to the Father and to the Son and

                to the Holy Spirit;

    as it was in the beginning, is now, and

                will be forever. Amen.

 

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Office Hymn: 465 Now All the Vault of Heaven Resounds

Text: © 1958 Augsburg Publishing House. Used by permission: LSB Hymn License no. 110004659

Tune: Public domain

 

Readings

 

First Reading                                                       Acts 6:1–9; 7:2a, 51–60

   ¹Now in these days when the disciples were increasing in number, a complaint by the Hellenists arose against the Hebrews because their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution. ²And the twelve summoned the full number of the disciples and said, “It is not right that we should give up preaching the word of God to serve tables. ³Therefore, brothers, pick out from among you seven men of good repute, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we will appoint to this duty. ⁴But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.” ⁵And what they said pleased the whole gathering, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch. ⁶These they set before the apostles, and they prayed and laid their hands on them.

   ⁷And the word of God continued to increase, and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests became obedient to the faith.

   ⁸And Stephen, full of grace and power, was doing great wonders and signs among the people. ⁹Then some of those who belonged to the synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), and of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and Asia, rose up and disputed with Stephen. . . .

   ²And Stephen said:

   “Brothers and fathers, hear me. . . .

   ⁵¹You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you. ⁵²Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and murdered, ⁵³you who received the law as delivered by angels and did not keep it.”

   ⁵⁴Now when they heard these things they were enraged, and they ground their teeth at him. ⁵⁵But he, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. ⁵⁶And he said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.” ⁵⁷But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears and rushed together at him. ⁵⁸Then they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul. ⁵⁹And as they were stoning Stephen, he called out, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.” ⁶⁰And falling to his knees he cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

 

P    O Lord, have mercy on us.

C    Thanks be to God.

 

Epistle Reading                                                            1 Peter 2:2–10

   ²Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up to salvation— ³if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.

   ⁴As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, ⁵you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. ⁶For it stands in Scripture:

“Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone,
   a cornerstone chosen and precious,
and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”

⁷So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe,

“The stone that the builders rejected
   has become the cornerstone,”

⁸and

“A stone of stumbling,
   and a rock of offense.”

They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.

   ⁹But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. ¹⁰Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

 

P    O Lord, have mercy on us.

C    Thanks be to God.

 

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Holy Gospel                                                                   John 14:1–14

   ¹[Jesus said:] “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. ²In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? ³And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. ⁴And you know the way to where I am going.” ⁵Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” ⁶Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. ⁷If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”

   ⁸Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.” ⁹Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? ¹⁰Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works. ¹¹Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe on account of the works themselves.

   ¹²“Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father. ¹³Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. ¹⁴If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.”

 

P    O Lord, have mercy on us.

C    Thanks be to God.

 

Responsory (Easter)                                                            LSB 222

 

SERMON

 

Canticle

 

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Te Deum                                                                             LSB 223

 

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Offering

 

Prayer

 

Kneel/Stand

 

Kyrie                                                                                  LSB 227

 

Lord’s Prayer

C    Our Father who art in heaven,

     hallowed be Thy name,

     Thy kingdom come,

     Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven;

     give us this day our daily bread;

     and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us;

     and lead us not into temptation,

     but deliver us from evil.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever.

Amen.

 

Collects

 

 

Collect of the Day

L    O God, You make the minds of Your faithful to be of one will. Grant that we may love what You have commanded and desire what You promise, that among the many changes of this world our hearts may be fixed where true joys are found; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.

 

Collect for Grace

L    O Lord, our heavenly Father, almighty and everlasting God, You have safely brought us to the beginning of this day. Defend us in the same with Your mighty power and grant that this day we fall into no sin, neither run into any kind of danger, but that all our doings, being ordered by Your governance, may be righteous in Your sight; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.

 

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Benedicamus                                                                      LSB 228

 

Benediction                                                                        LSB 228

 

Hymn to Depart: 748 I'm But A Stranger Here

Tune and text: Public domain

 

Acknowledgments

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