Tuesday, September 8, 2026
Tuesday in the 14th Week after Trinity
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Stand. It is customary to bow the head at the name of the Trinity and at the name of Jesus throughout the office.
O Lord, open my lips.
And my mouth will declare your praise.
Make haste, O God, to deliver me.
Make haste to help me, O Lord.
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.
Praise to You, O Christ. Alleluia.
Blessed be God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
O come, let us worship Him.
O come, let us sing to the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to the Rock of our salvation.
Let us come into His presence with thanksgiving, let us make a joyful noise to Him with songs of praise.
For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
The deep places of the earth are in His hand; the strength of the hills is His also.
The sea is His, for He made it, and His hand formed the dry land.
O come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker.
For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand.
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.
Blessed be God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
O come, let us worship Him.
Psalm 93
Now thank we all our God, With heart and hands and voices, Who wondrous things has done, In whom His world rejoices; Who from our mothers' arms Has blessed us on our way With countless gifts of love, And still is ours today.
Oh, may this bounteous God Through all our life be near us, With ever joyful hearts And blessèd peace to cheer us, And keep us in His grace, And guide us when perplexed, And free us from all ills In this world and the next.
All praise and thanks to God The Father now be given, The Son, and Him who reigns With them in highest heaven, The one eternal God, Whom earth and heaven adore; For thus it was, is now, And shall be evermore.
Traditional post-communion or closing hymn. Fitting for any occasion of thanksgiving. Especially associated with Reformation Day in the LCMS tradition and with Thanksgiving Day in American Lutheran use.
Amos 7:1-15
2 Timothy 1:1-18
Forever, O Lord, Your Word is firmly set in the heavens.
Lord, I love the habitation of Your house and the place where Your glory dwells.
Blessed are those who hear the Word of God and keep it.
Lord, I love the habitation of Your house and the place where Your glory dwells.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.
Lord, I love the habitation of Your house and the place where Your glory dwells.
Martin Luther, Sermon on the Gospel for the Sixth Sunday after Trinity (TODO verify postil)
Here you see what God demands of us, that he does not want anything done even for himself unless it be done in love, after the proper relation has been established with one's neighbor. So you see, anger cancels all good deeds that might be done, for instance fastings, self-mortification, giving of alms, and other like deeds. And God in the first place, wants those to be reconciled who live in discord, they, asking the pardon of the ones they have offended, as indeed is proper. This is the meaning he would convey when he says: "If therefore thou art offering thy gift at the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath aught against thee, leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way, first be reconciled to thy brother," that is, ask his forgiveness. Again: "Agree with thine adversary quickly;" and even though he does not come at once to you and beg pardon, be kindly disposed toward him nevertheless and forgive him. See how God has balanced both sides: on the one hand, offended, we are to be kind and forgiving, on the other hand, the offender is to beg pardon, so all things, may go well.
Now one might ask: You tell us not to say, "Thou fool," but how about Christ often calling his disciples "fools" and "unbelievers," Mark 16:14, a great and strong slander for a Christian? Reply: We must judge according to the condition of the heart: that determines the nature of our actions. Christ and Paul rebuke and reprove harshly, but they have the best of intentions, hence their words are to be counted good deeds. Even as a father ofttimes calls his son a fool, yea, and adds bodily correction, yet he does all this out of love, in that he is always kind in his heart to his son; so Christ and the Apostles and all the faithful act; whatever they do, they do from a paternal and maternal heart, hence they are truly good deeds. Therefore we must judge such questions according to the heart and the person. This may suffice for the present on this Gospel.
Martin Luther, Sermon on the Gospel for the Sixth Sunday after Trinity (TODO verify postil)
paired with Matthew 5:20-26
Trinity 6 gospel (Matt 5:20-26) contains the antithesis on murder and anger and the demand to be reconciled with your brother before presenting your gift at the altar. Luther reads this as fixing the right order — reconciliation first, worship second — and then handles the pastoral objection that Christ Himself calls His disciples "fools" and "unbelievers." His answer distinguishes the outward form of a word from the disposition of the heart: rebukes spoken from a paternal love are good deeds, not slanders. A useful gloss on the gospel for a season that keeps turning back to neighbor-love.
Stand
We praise you, O God; we acknowledge you to be the Lord. All the earth now worships you, the Father everlasting. To you all angels cry aloud, the heavens and all the powers therein. To you cherubim and seraphim continually cry:
Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Sabaoth; heaven and earth are full of the majesty of your glory. The glorious company of the apostles praise you. The goodly fellowship of the prophets praise you.
The noble army of martyrs praise you. The holy Church throughout all the world does acknowledge you. The Father of an infinite majesty; your adorable, true, and only Son; also the Holy Ghost, the Comforter.
You are the King of Glory, O Christ; You are the everlasting Son of the Father.
When you took upon yourself to deliver man, you humbled yourself to be born of a Virgin. When you had overcome the sharpness of death, you opened the Kingdom of Heaven to all believers.
You sit at the right hand of God, in the glory of the Father. We believe that you will come to be our judge.
We therefore pray you, help your servants, whom you have redeemed with your precious blood. Make them to be numbered with your saints, in glory everlasting.
O Lord, save your people, and bless your heritage. Govern them, and lift them up forever. Day by day we magnify you; And we worship your name forever and ever.
Grant, O Lord, to keep us this day without sin. O Lord, have mercy upon us, have mercy upon us. O Lord, let your mercy be upon us, as our trust is in you. O Lord, in you have I trusted; let me never be confounded.
Lord, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. Lord, have mercy.
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.
O Lord, hear my prayer.
And let my cry come to You.
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.
Amen.
Bow to receive the benediction.
Let us bless the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with us all.
Amen.