Free Download: Large Catechism readings as Bulletin Inserts — Holy Week
Find the bulletin inserts for Holy Week by clicking on the Downloads tab above. Earlier this month, we also added another download: a complete reading schedule for the Large Catechism (on which our bulletin inserts are based).
Also, today is the last day for the March sale! Many of our titles are up to 20% off. Browse the Books tab above for more details.
March Sale and Other News
From now through Monday, March 31, many of our books are on sale up to 20% off! And remember that larger orders of Pless’s Didache (20+ books) qualify for a bulk discount. Numerous pastors have already picked up this updated and revised Catechesis manual for their Adult Instruction and Bible Study classes, and we are pleased to be sending it out to Lutherans worldwide.
Also be sure to check out a new download created by Pr. Edward Naumann, “PRIE: Preparation through Reflective and Introspective Examination.” This tri-fold brochure is designed to help in preparation for private confession and absolution according to the Ten Commandments, similar to the Beichtspiegel found in The Brotherhood Prayer Book. Find PRIE here or click on the Downloads tab above. 
Did you know that we offer an Eastertide card with artwork by Edward Riojas? This theologically rich, original artwork depicts Jesus’ victory over the grave. As the inside verse proclaims: “For the sheep the Lamb has bled, Sinless in the sinner’s stead. Christ the Lord is ris’n on high; Now He lives, no more to die. Alleluia!”
Large Catechism Readings According to the Church Year
New in our Downloads tab: Large Catechism Readings According to the Church Year. Our thanks to Pr. Craig Meissner of Immanuel Lutheran Church, U.A.C., Steger, Illinois, for providing the reading schedule, linking sections of the Large Catechism to the church year themes in the historic one-year series.
*Find it in our Downloads tab or click here to go directly to the pdf
Prof. Pless on Issues, Etc.
The Eve of the Nativity of our Lord
Listen to this hymn chanted.
Jesus, the Father’s only Son,
Whose death for all redemption won;
Before the worlds, of God most high
Begotten all ineffably.
The Father’s light and splendor Thou,
Their endless hope to Thee that bow;
Accept the prayers and praise today
That through the world Thy servants pay.
Salvation’s Author, call to mind
How, taking form of humankind,
Born of a Virgin undefiled,
Thou in man’s flesh becam’st a child.
Thus testifies the present day,
Through every year in long array,
That Thou, salvation’s source alone,
Proceedest from the Father’s throne.
Whence sky, and stars, and sea’s abyss,
And earth, and all that therein is,
Shall still, with laud and carol meet,
The Author of Thine advent greet.
And we who, by Thy precious blood
From sin redeemed, are marked for God,
On this the day that saw Thy birth,
Sing the new song of ransomed earth:
For that Thine advent glory be,
O Jesus, Virgin-born, to Thee;
with Father, and with Holy Ghost,
From men and from the heavenly host. Amen.
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Christe, Redemptor omnium, 6th century, trans. by J.M. Neale
*An excerpt from The Brotherhood Prayer Book
The Brotherhood Prayer Book: O Antiphon for December 23
“O Emmanuel, our King and Lawgiver, the Desire of all nations and their Salvation : Come and save us, O Lord our God.”
- December 23: O Emmanuel
- The Magnificat
*Chanted by Pr. Sean Daenzer to the Gregorian tones in The Brotherhood Prayer Book, beginning on page 397. The order for singing this Vespers canticle is Antiphon, Magnificat, Antiphon. Read the introductory post about O Antiphons here.
The Brotherhood Prayer Book: O Antiphon for December 22
“O King of the Nations, and their Desire, the Cornerstone who makest both one : Come and save mankind, whom thou formedst of clay.”
- December 22: O King of the Nations
- The Magnificat
*Chanted by Pr. Sean Daenzer to the Gregorian tones in The Brotherhood Prayer Book, beginning on page 397. The order for singing this Vespers canticle is Antiphon, Magnificat, Antiphon. Read the introductory post about O Antiphons here.
The Brotherhood Prayer Book: O Antiphon for December 21
“O Dayspring, Brightness of Light Everlasting, and Sun of Righteousness : Come and enlighten them that sit in darkness and the shadow of death.”
- December 21: O Dayspring
- The Magnificat
*Chanted by Pr. Sean Daenzer to the Gregorian tones in The Brotherhood Prayer Book, beginning on page 397. The order for singing this Vespers canticle is Antiphon, Magnificat, Antiphon. Read the introductory post about O Antiphons here.
The Brotherhood Prayer Book: O Antiphon for December 20
“O Key of David, and Sceptre of the house of Israel, that openest and no man shutteth, that shuttest and no man openeth : Come and bring the prisoners out of the prison-house, them that sit in darkness and the shadow of death.”
- December 20: O Key of David
- The Magnificat
*Chanted by Pr. Sean Daenzer to the Gregorian tones in The Brotherhood Prayer Book, beginning on page 397. The order for singing this Vespers canticle is Antiphon, Magnificat, Antiphon. Read the introductory post about O Antiphons here.
The Brotherhood Prayer Book: O Antiphon for December 19
“O Root of Jesse, which standest for an ensign of the people, at whom kings shall shut their mouths, to whom the Gentiles shall seek : Come and deliver us, and tarry not.”
- December 19: O Root of Jesse
- The Magnificat
*Chanted by Pr. Sean Daenzer to the Gregorian tones in The Brotherhood Prayer Book, beginning on page 397. The order for singing this Vespers canticle is Antiphon, Magnificat, Antiphon. Read the introductory post about O Antiphons here.