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Catechetical Recitation Hymn #  263 O Little Flock, Fear Not the Foe Hymn #  288 Lord, Help Us Ever to Retain  (St. 1-2) Hymn #  444 Rise! To Arms! With Prayer Employ You Hymn #  288 Lord, Help Us Ever to Retain  (St. 3-4) Hymn #  261 Lord, Keep Us Steadfast in Thy Word Readings Jeremiah 31:23-25 Romans 6:19-23 Mark 8:1-9 Sermon In the name of the Father and of the Son + and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. 1)          In today’s Gospel reading a great multitude, four thousand strong, gather to hear Jesus’ teaching. We often think of crowds flocking to Christ to see a miracle or that they migrate to where He is because He’s recently done a miracle. But that’s usually not the case. The people came to Jesus because “ He taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes ” (Matthew 7:29). Such was the case in today’s Gospel reading. This multitude goes out into the wildernes...

Order of Holy Communion - Pg. 15 Hymn # 369 All mankind fell in Adam’s fall Hymn # 311 Jesus Christ, Our Blessed Savior Hymn #  54 Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah   Introit Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad with her: All you who love her Rejoice for joy with her : All you who mourn for her. (Isaiah 66:10) I was glad when they said to me: “Let us go into the house of the Lord.” Our feet have been standing: Within your gates, O Jerusalem! Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: “May they prosper who love you.” For the sake of my brethren and companions, I will now say: “Peace be within you.” (Psalm 122:1, 2, 6, and 8) Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad with her: All you who love her. Rejoice for joy with her, : All you who mourn for her. (Isaiah 66:10) Collect for Laetare, the 4th Sunday in Lent Grant, we beseech Thee, Almighty God, that we, who for our evil deeds do worthily deserve to be punished, by the comfort of Thy grace may mercifully be relieved...