Invocation
P In
the name of the Father and of the T Son
and of the Holy Spirit.
C Amen.
Collect
Lord
God, creator of heaven and earth, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, we
praise You for the abundant mercy that You this day so richly have
provided for us, blessing us not only with daily bread for our bodies
but also with heavenly food for our souls. Grant that Your living and
powerful Word may abide in our hearts, working mightily in us to Your
glory and for our salvation. We commit ourselves to Your divine
protection and fatherly care. Let Your holy angels be with us that
the evil foe may have no power over us. Look in mercy on Your Church
and deliver it from all danger and adversities. By Your Holy Spirit
comfort and strengthen all who are in affliction or distress, and
grant Your abiding peace to us all; through Jesus Christ, our Savior.
Reading
Genesis 49:1—50:26
Then
Jacob called his sons and said, “Gather yourselves together, that I
may tell you what shall happen to you in days to come.
“Assemble
and listen, O sons of Jacob,
listen
to Israel your father.
“Reuben,
you are my firstborn,
my
might, and the firstfruits of my strength,
preeminent
in dignity and preeminent in power.
Unstable
as water, you shall not have preeminence,
because
you went up to your father’s bed;
then
you defiled it—he went up to my couch!
“Simeon
and Levi are brothers;
weapons
of violence are their swords.
Let
my soul come not into their council;
O
my glory, be not joined to their company.
For
in their anger they killed men,
and
in their willfulness they hamstrung oxen.
Cursed
be their anger, for it is fierce,
and
their wrath, for it is cruel!
I
will divide them in Jacob
and
scatter them in Israel.
“Judah,
your brothers shall praise you;
your
hand shall be on the neck of your enemies;
your
father’s sons shall bow down before you.
Judah
is a lion’s cub;
from
the prey, my son, you have gone up.
He
stooped down; he crouched as a lion
and
as a lioness; who dares rouse him?
The
scepter shall not depart from Judah,
nor
the ruler’s staff from between his feet,
until
tribute comes to him;
and
to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.
Binding
his foal to the vine
and
his donkey’s colt to the choice vine,
he
has washed his garments in wine
and
his vesture in the blood of grapes.
His
eyes are darker than wine,
and
his teeth whiter than milk.
“Zebulun
shall dwell at the shore of the sea;
he
shall become a haven for ships,
and
his border shall be at Sidon.
“Issachar
is a strong donkey,
crouching
between the sheepfolds.
He
saw that a resting place was good,
and
that the land was pleasant,
so
he bowed his shoulder to bear,
and
became a servant at forced labor.
“Dan
shall judge his people
as
one of the tribes of Israel.
Dan
shall be a serpent in the way,
a
viper by the path,
that
bites the horse’s heels
so
that his rider falls backward.
I
wait for your salvation, O Lord.
“Raiders
shall raid Gad,
but
he shall raid at their heels.
“Asher’s
food shall be rich,
and
he shall yield royal delicacies.
“Naphtali
is a doe let loose
that
bears beautiful fawns.
“Joseph
is a fruitful bough,
a
fruitful bough by a spring;
his
branches run over the wall.
The
archers bitterly attacked him,
shot
at him, and harassed him severely,
yet
his bow remained unmoved;
his
arms were made agile
by
the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob
(from
there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel),
by
the God of your father who will help you,
by
the Almighty who will bless you
with
blessings of heaven above,
blessings
of the deep that crouches beneath,
blessings
of the breasts and of the womb.
The
blessings of your father
are
mighty beyond the blessings of my parents,
up
to the bounties of the everlasting hills.
May
they be on the head of Joseph,
and
on the brow of him who was set apart from his brothers.
“Benjamin
is a ravenous wolf,
in
the morning devouring the prey
and
at evening dividing the spoil.”
All
these are the twelve tribes of Israel. This is what their father said
to them as he blessed them, blessing each with the blessing suitable
to him. Then he commanded them and said to them, “I am to be
gathered to my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in
the field of Ephron the Hittite, in the cave that is in the field at
Machpelah, to the east of Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham
bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite to possess as a burying
place. There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife. There they
buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I buried Leah— the
field and the cave that is in it were bought from the Hittites.”
When Jacob finished commanding his sons, he drew up his feet into the
bed and breathed his last and was gathered to his people.
Then
Joseph fell on his father’s face and wept over him and kissed him.
And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his
father. So the physicians embalmed Israel. Forty days were required
for it, for that is how many are required for embalming. And the
Egyptians wept for him seventy days.
And
when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to the
household of Pharaoh, saying, “If now I have found favor in your
eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, My father made me
swear, saying, ‘I am about to die: in my tomb that I hewed out for
myself in the land of Canaan, there shall you bury me.’ Now
therefore, let me please go up and bury my father. Then I will
return.” And Pharaoh answered, “Go up, and bury your father, as
he made you swear.” So Joseph went up to bury his father. With him
went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his household, and
all the elders of the land of Egypt, as well as all the household of
Joseph, his brothers, and his father’s household. Only their
children, their flocks, and their herds were left in the land of
Goshen. And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen. It was
a very great company. When they came to the threshing floor of Atad,
which is beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very great and
grievous lamentation, and he made a mourning for his father seven
days. When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the
mourning on the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a
grievous mourning by the Egyptians.” Therefore the place was named
Abel-mizraim; it is beyond the Jordan. Thus his sons did for him as
he had commanded them, for his sons carried him to the land of Canaan
and buried him in the cave of the field at Machpelah, to the east of
Mamre, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite to
possess as a burying place. After he had buried his father, Joseph
returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had gone up with him
to bury his father.
When
Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “It
may be that Joseph will hate us and pay us back for all the evil that
we did to him.” So they sent a message to Joseph, saying, “Your
father gave this command before he died, ‘Say to Joseph, Please
forgive the transgression of your brothers and their sin, because
they did evil to you.’ And now, please forgive the transgression of
the servants of the God of your father.” Joseph wept when they
spoke to him. His brothers also came and fell down before him and
said, “Behold, we are your servants.” But Joseph said to them,
“Do not fear, for am I in the place of God? As for you, you meant
evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that
many people should be kept alive, as they are today. So do not fear;
I will provide for you and your little ones.” Thus he comforted
them and spoke kindly to them.
So
Joseph remained in Egypt, he and his father’s house. Joseph lived
110 years. And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third
generation. The children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were
counted as Joseph’s own. And Joseph said to his brothers, “I am
about to die, but God will visit you and bring you up out of this
land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”
Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear, saying, “God will surely
visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.” So Joseph
died, being 110 years old. They embalmed him, and he was put in a
coffin in Egypt.
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Apostles'
Creed
C I
believe in God, the Father Almighty,
maker
of heaven and earth.
And
in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord,
who
was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born
of the virgin Mary,
suffered
under Pontius Pilate,
was
crucified, died and was buried.
He
descended into hell.
The
third day He rose again from the dead.
He
ascended into heaven
and
sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty.
From
thence He will come to judge the living and the dead.
I
believe in the Holy Spirit,
the
holy Christian Church,
the
communion of saints,
the
forgiveness of sins,
the
resurrection of the body,
and
the life T everlasting.
Amen.
Holy
Baptism - Fourth
What
does such baptizing with water indicate?
It
indicates that the Old Adam in us should by daily contrition and
repentance be drowned and die with all sins and evil desires, and
that a new man should daily emerge and arise to live before God in
righteousness and purity forever.
Where
is this written?
St.
Paul writes in Romans, chapter six: "We were therefore buried
with Him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was
raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live
a new life." (Romans 6:4)
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.
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.
Luther's
Morning Prayer
C I
thank You, my heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ, Your dear Son,
that You have kept me this night from all harm and danger; and I pray
that You would keep me this day also from sin and every evil, that
all my doings and life may please You. For into Your hands I commend
myself, my body and soul, and all things. Let Your holy angel be
with me, that the evil foe may have no power over me. Amen.
Luther's
Evening Prayer
C I
thank You, my heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ, Your dear Son,
that You have graciously kept me this day; and I pray that You would
forgive me all my sins where I have done wrong, and graciously keep
me this night. For into Your hands I commend myself, my body and
soul, and all things. Let Your holy angel be with me, that the evil
foe may have no power over me. Amen.
Benediction
(Pauline)
P The
grace of the Lord T Jesus Christ and
the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you
all.
C Amen.
Acknowledgments
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otherwise indicated, all scripture quotations are from The Holy
Bible, English Standard Version, copyright © 2001 by Crossway
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