I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the Lord”

Psalm 122:1

Scripture Readings For the Week:

We have sinned in thought, word, and deed, by what we have done, and by what we have left undone. We have not loved God with our whole heart, nor our neighbor as ourselves. We departed from the Lord’s judgments and we did not listen to the faithful men God sent to bring us His Word. We stand shamefully idle when the Lord has given us work to do. Righteousness belongs to the Lord, but to us shame of face because we have sinned against Him. But to the Lord our God belongs mercy and forgiveness. Jesus calls us hour after hour to take up our cross and follow Him into the work of the Kingdom. He lifts our eyes from shame to the hope of the promised great reward that, because of Christ’s love and grace, death and resurrection, belongs even to those untimely called. In the work and heat of the day He gives us our spiritual food and spiritual drink. Christ is our Rock. Nourished by Him we work with zeal, strength, and endurance, not for things which perish, but for the certain hope of an imperishable crown.

Prayer of the Day:

O Lord, graciously hear the prayers of Your people that we who justly suffer the consequence of our sin may be mercifully delivered by Your goodness to the glory of Your name; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.

Hymns

  • 608 Lord, to You I Make Confession
  • 555 Salvation unto Us Has cometh
  • 563 Jesus Thy Blood and Righteousness
  • 525 Crown Him With Many Crowns
  • 708 Lord, Thee I Love with All My Heart

Bach Cantata for the Week

BWV 144 Nimm, was dein ist, und gehe hin

  1. Chorus [Dictum] (S, A, T, B)

Take what is thine and go away.

  1. Aria (A)

Murmur not,
Man of Christ,

When thy wish is not fulfilled;
Rather be with that contented
Which thee thy God hath allotted;
He knows what thou hast need of.

  1. Chorale (S, A, T, B)

What God doth, that is rightly done,
His will is just forever;
Whatever course he sets my life,
I will trust him with calmness.
He is my God,
Who in distress
Knows well how to support me;
So I yield him all power.

  1. Recit. (T)

Wherever moderation rules
And ev’rywhere the helm doth tend,
There is mankind content
With that which God ordains.
However, where immoderation doth its judgment speak,
There shall both grief and woe ensue,
The heart shall not
Be satisfied,
And unremembered shall be this:
What God doth, that is rightly done.

  1. Aria (S)

Contentedness,
In this life it is a treasure
Which is able to bring pleasure
In the greatest time of stress,
Contentedness.
For it lets itself in all things
Satisfied be in what God brings,
Contentedness.

  1. Chorale (S, A, T, B)

What my God will, let be alway,
His will, it is the best will.
To help all those he is prepared
Who in him faith keep steadfast.
He frees from want, this faithful God,
And punisheth with measure.
Who God doth trust, firm on him builds,
Him shall he not abandon.