A Prayer for Maundy Thursday

Eternal Savior, You have promised to give me with the bread and the cup Your body and blood for the remission of all my sins. Oh, what amazing love! What riches of divine wisdom! In awe and wonderment I ponder this gracious gift.

A Prayer for Wednesday of Holy Week

O Christ, give me strength and grace to crucify my sinful desires and dedicate myself anew to You, who has loved me with an everlasting love and brought to me eternal salvation. I confess to You my sins. They are many, and You know them all. For each and every one of them You suffered the agony of the Cross and shed Your precious blood.

A Prayer for Tuesday of Holy Week

Pray for me, gracious Redeemer, lest I deny You. O Lord, You know that I have promised to be faithful to You, and nevertheless I have again and again sinned and offended You with my many transgressions and broken pledges. I am ashamed of myself. Yet I come to You for there is no other Savior from sin.

A Prayer for Monday of Holy Week

Precious Savior, You are my surest Friend; hold me that I do not stumble and fall. Guard my heart that the love of gold, the smiles of popularity, the eagerness to succeed, may not rob me of my salvation, which You so dearly bought with Your own blood.

Prayer for Palm Sunday

Today again I praise You with my hosannas and welcome You as the King of my heart. Enter in and take full possession of me, body heart, mind and soul. As thousands and ten thousands today vow faithfulness to You until death, acknowledging that they have no other Savior, grant that I, too, join this great host of faithful people to realize both the enormity and bitterness of my sin as well as the course of plenteous redemption to which You committed Yourself.

Prayers from Treasury of Daily Prayer – direct to you

Twitter.com/concordiaprayer Have brief prayers from Treasury of Daily Prayer delivered to your RSS reader via a Twitter account four times each day. Twitter.com/concordiaprayer Concordia Publishing House offers a thought from the day’s appointed Collect and Psalm along with a prayer at noon and at midnight. Twitter.com/concordiaprayer Deepen your devotional life by having these brief prayers [...]

Sexagesima

The propers for Sexagesima emphasize the warning against trusting in anything that we do. The spirit of self-seeking, or of self-trust, or of self-righteousness will taint our sacrifice and render it unacceptable, for the sacrifice of self must be offered to God and not to self.

Septuagesima

Epiphany leads on to Lent, for if we have the Epiphany hope, we must purify ourselves, even as is he is pure (1 John 5:3). The vision must be realized in daily life, in spite of the inward and outward conditions of trials and difficulty. In Gesimatide we address ourselves therefore to the conquest of [...]

What are Ember Days?

he Ember Days were originally days of prayer, repentance, and fasting. After the Reformation, the Ember Days themselves became for Lutherans one of the roots of the evangelical “days of repentance”

Transfiguration of Our Lord

Heavenly Father, who on the mountain revealed Jesus Christ in His unveiled divine majesty, and by wondrous testimony declared Him your Son whom you love, help us always to believe and confess that Jesus is God, to the glory of your name. In commanding us to hear Him you have placed your divine blessing on [...]

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