Necessary Roughness

This morning I attended Bible Study and Divine Service at St. Paul’s in Woodland, CA.

The study was lay-led, working from “Galatians” from NavPress.

The service was LW Divine Service II, setting one. A couple of LSB hymns were printed, “Voices Raised to You We Offer” (LSB 795) and “The Lamb, The Lamb” (LSB 547). I found an LSB in the choir loft where I was sitting so I could check out the four parts.

When the latter hymn first came out, I was in Kansas City, and I vaguely remember it being tied to the LCMS National Youth Gathering (or whatever it was called at the time). The sheet music actually had some decent music. Looking at the hymn in the LSB, half of the tenor line didn’t make it into the music. I sang the original line anyway.

I had the privilege of chanting the Introit, the “Kyrie”, and the Preface. Pastor Scherer informed me the LW Kyrie was from the Great Litany of the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, thus he preferred not to call it the Kyrie.

Thanks to Pastor Scherer for the privilege. He gave me the option of choosing the Introit from the One-Year Lectionary or the Three-Year Series. I chose the former, which is drawn from Isaiah 66:10 and Psalm 28:6-7a, 8-9.