Learning the Faith by Heart

Speaking, Praying, and Singing God’s Word Together 

 The Week of Dec 1 – Dec 8, 2024  

The First Week of Advent

Hymn of the Week: On Jordan’s Bank the Baptist’s Cry (344) 

Psalmody for Matins:  25 (Mon); 66:1-12 (Thurs)

GLCA Learn by Heart Hymn: Baptized into Your Name Most Holy (LSB 590, ss 1,4)

GLCA Catechism/Bible Verse Memory: Old Testament Books of the Bible (2017 Luther’s Small Catechism, pg. 369) 

Prophecies of Christ from Holy Scripture

Family members may take turns reading the Scripture for each day.  

Dec. 1 — “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch … And this is the name by which He will be called: ‘The Lord is our righteousness’” (Jer. 23:5–6).

Dec. 2 — “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel” (Gen. 3:15).

Dec. 3 — “The scepter shall not depart from Judah” (Gen. 49:10).

Dec. 4 — “Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice, and let them say among the nations, ‘The Lord reigns!’”
(1 Chron. 16:31).

Dec. 5 — “I see Him, but not now; I behold Him, but not near: a star shall come out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel” (Num. 24:17).

Dec. 6 — “I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers” (Deut. 18:18).

Dec. 7 — “For to us a child is born, to us a son is given” (Isaiah 9:6)

Advent Devotions for the Family Table

An Advent wreath may be lighted, adding the lighting of one candle for each week in Advent. If a rose candle is used, it is lit at the beginning of the third week.

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…

GLCA Catechism/Bible Verse Memory: Old Testament Books of the Bible

Bible Reading for the Day (See opposite page for each day’s reading of a Prophecy of Christ from Holy Scripture)  

            This is the Word of the Lord. 

            Thanks be to God. 

Hymn for Advent Week One 

1    O come, O come, Emmanuel,

           And ransom captive Israel,

       That mourns in lonely exile here

           Until the Son of God appear.

   Refrain

       Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel

       Shall come to thee, O Israel!

Family Prayers 

Collect for the First Week of Advent – Stir up Your power, O Lord, and come, that by Your protection we may be rescued from the threatening perils of our sins and saved by Your mighty deliverance; for You live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.

For___________________, let us pray to the Lord.

Lord, have mercy.