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Liturgical Exegesis, or How the Liturgy Teaches Us to Read Holy Scripture - Lauds in the Easter Octave
Liturgical Exegesis, or How the Liturgy Teaches Us to Read Holy Scripture - Lauds in the Easter Octave

“Beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.”

On this Easter Monday, as we hear the account of the road to Emmaus in Luke 24, in which Our Lord lays out for his apostles the “things concerning himself” in the Old Testament, some of the antiphons at Lauds seem especially striking. The five psalm antiphons at Lauds, on a normal weekday, typically are an excerpted line or two from the psalm or Old Testament canticle in question. So, for example, on a typical Monday throughout the year, the psalms and antiphons at Lauds would look like this

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Stefan GramenzComment
A Devotion for the Monday After Easter
A Devotion for the Monday After Easter

The author of Hebrews explains the “regulations for worship” in the “first covenant.” He makes reference to the tabernacle that God commanded the Israelites to build (Ex 26-31). It was a place of beauty, with the Most Holy Place being where the Presence of God dwelt. It was a place unlike anything else on earth: precious metals, beautiful fabric, the “bread of the Presence,” vested priests, and incense.

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Larry BeaneComment
Easter Sunrise
Easter Sunrise

Tell us, O all ye witnesses of the resurrection, how you had lost all hope, but then he came to you and revived you, and you began to believe the unbelievable; you started to hope the unimaginable; you dared to trust the impossible, that Christ who was dead had—could it be?—actually risen from the dead, as he had said he would. For our hearts burn within us this day.

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Burnell EckardtComment
A Statement of the Israeli Evangelical Lutheran Church on the Celebration of the Passover Seder
A Statement of the Israeli Evangelical Lutheran Church on the Celebration of the Passover Seder

Today the feast of Passover (פסח) is celebrated in almost every Jewish home in Israel. According to Shmuel Rosner in his book Israeli Judaism: A Cultural Revolution, about 60% of Israelis read the entire Haggadah at the Passover Seder. This means that most people in Israel, from secular or atheist to ultra-Orthodox, take part in the Seder in one way or another. For this reason, the question of the Passover Seder, and of the other feasts that shape the rhythm of life in Israel, cannot be ignored by us as Israeli Jewish Christians.

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Guest Author Comments
Language Matters
Language Matters

This short popped up in my feed, and I think it is illustrative of why we are so divided in the LCMS. It’s part of a longer Unite Leadership Collective podcast (below) that demonstrates that our problem is one of language. We use the same words, but we are not using the words in the same way.

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Larry Beane Comments
Fr. Mullon Said, "No!"
Fr. Mullon Said, "No!"

Fr. Mullon was known for his staunch defense of the church against the encroachments of government. In fact, the bells that ring out daily from the church’s belfry on Camp Street do so to this day because Fr. Mullon said, “No!”

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Larry BeaneComment