Learning the Faith by Heart
Speaking, Praying, and Singing God’s Word Together
The Week of Mar 31 – April 7, 2024
Preparing for the Second Sunday of Easter
Hymn of the Week: O Sons and Daughters of the King (470)
Catechism Memory: The Lord’s Prayer (LSB, pg. 323)
| The Sixth Petition And lead us not into temptation.
| Preschool + |
| What does this mean? God tempts no one. We pray in this petition…overcome them and win the victory. | Third Grade + |
Bible Verse Memory: “Be sober minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world.” – 1 Peter 5:8-9
Easter Monday
Collect: O God, in the paschal feast You restore all creation. Continue to send Your heavenly gifts upon Your people that they may walk in perfect freedom and receive eternal life; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.
Psalmody: Psalm 100
Reading: Luke 24:13-35
Hymnody: Christ the Lord is Risen Today; Alleluia (LSB 463)
Easter Tuesday
Collect: Almighty God, through the resurrection of Your Son You have secured peace for our troubled consciences. Grant us this peace evermore that trusting in the merit of Your Son we may come at last to the perfect peace of heaven; through the same Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.
Psalmody: Psalm 2
Reading: Luke 24:36-49
Hymnody: Jesus Lives! The Victory’s Won (LSB 490)
Easter Wednesday
Collect: Almighty God, by the glorious resurrection of Your Son, Jesus Christ, You destroyed death and brought life and immortality to light. Grant that we who have been raised with Him may abide in His presence and rejoice in the hope of eternal glory; through the same Jesus Christ, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.
Psalmody: Psalm 61
Reading: John 21:1-14
Hymnody: Long before the World is Waking (LSB 485)
Thursday: Holy Gospel – John 20:19-31
By His death on the cross, Christ accomplished salvation, providing forgiveness of sins for the entire world. Unless His good news is made known to you personally, however, it does not benefit you. How do I know your sins are forgiven before God in heaven? Read John 20:19-23. How does Jesus make known His forgiveness? What comfort does forgiveness through a pastor give me when I am tempted to doubt my identity as God’s child? (LSC, 2017 Explanation, 315).
Friday: O Sons and Daughters of the King (LSB 470)
Have you ever thought of yourself as a son or daughter of the King? Who is the King? When do we become His children? How does that relate to Easter?
The Order of Meditation and Prayer
The sign of the cross + may be made by all in remembrance of their Baptism
Invocation
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Apostles’ Creed
I believe in the God the Father Almighty…
Bible Verse Memory
“Be sober minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world.” – 1 Peter 5:8-9
Catechism Memory: The Lord’s Prayer – Sixth Petition and Explanation
And lead us not into temptation.
What does this mean?
God tempts no one. We pray in this petition that God would guard and keep us so that the devil, the world, and our sinful nature may not deceive us or mislead us into false belief, despair, and other great shame and vice. Although we are attacked by these things, we pray that we may finally overcome them and win the victory.
Bible Reading for the Day (From Upcoming Readings for Sun, Portals of Prayer, or other Daily meditation)
This is the Word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
Hymn of the Week
O Sons and Daughters of the King (470)
Family Prayers
For___________________, let us pray to the Lord.
Lord, have mercy.
Lord’s Prayer