"O Lord, We Praise You” | Maundy Thursday

Sing to the Lord

ZACHARY'S NOTES:

Stanza 1 // Martin Luther rewrote this first stanza and added two more. God’s mercy is given to those who - weak in soul and in need of forgiveness - bow before God in thanksgiving and faith. The body and blood Christ gives to His people is the same “born of Mary” who “carried our sins and sorrows” and “pleads for us” in all “trial, fear, and need.” The cry for mercy is one offered in faith that God will do these things for us, even as he comes to us now in body and blood.

Stanza 2 // This seems like a stanza eager to jump to Good Friday, but we sing of Christ’s death because of the blessing it is to those who receive the Sacrament in faith! We are bound to Christ and one another in our Lord’s love, and it is His death we proclaim in the Sacrament - given “for you for the forgiveness of sin.” We know God’s love in his body and blood given for us. In this forgiveness, our debt is paid, and God promises peace.

Stanza 3 // This is a prayer for the Church today, that we would live in “love and union” around the “blest communion” given by God. We also pray for the Spirit’s presence, that we might be “remade” [or perhaps reformed] into our Lord’s Church, by which we are given faith, peace, and unity in Christ’s death and resurrection.

OTHER SUGGESTIONS

ELW 499 - O Lord, We Praise You - GOTT SEI GELOBET UND GEBENEDEIET

ELW 347 - Go to Dark Gethsemane - GETHSEMANE

ELW 358 - Great God, Your Love Has Called Us - RYBURN

ELW 462 - Now We Join in Celebration - SCHMÜCKE DICH

ELW 468 - Around You, O Lord Jesus - O JESU, ÄN DE DINA

ELW 480 - O Bread of Life from Heaven - O WELT, ICH MUSS DICH LASSEN

ELW 488 - Soul, Adorn Yourself with Gladness - SCHMÜCKE DICH

ELW 494 - For the Bread Which You Have Broken - OMNI DIE

ELW 499 - O Lord, We Praise You - GOTT SEI GELOBET UND GEBENDEIET

LBW 122 - Love Consecrates the Humblest Act - TWENTY-FOURTH

LBW 127 - It Happened on That Fateful Night - BOURBON

LBW 199 - Thee We Adore, O Hidden Savior - ADORO TE DEVOTE

LBW 200 - For the Bread Which You Have Broken - OMNI DIE

LBW 203 - Now We Join in Celebration - SCHMÜCKE DICH

LBW 208 - Lord Jesus Christ, You Have Prepared - DU LEBENSBROT, HERR JESU CHRIST

LBW 215 - O Lord, We Praise You - GOTT SEI GELOBET UND GEBENDEIET

LBW 222 - O Bread of Life from Heaven - O WELT, ICH MUSS DICH LASSEN

LBW 224 - Soul, Adorn Yourself with Gladness - SCHMÜCKE DICH

LBW 226 - Draw Near and Take the Body of the Lord - COENA DOMINI

LSB 617 - O Lord, We Praise You - GOTT SEI GELOBET UND GEBENDEIET

LSB 618 - I Come, O Savior, to Thy Table - ICH STERBE TÄGLICH

LSB 619 - Thy Body, Given for Me, O Savior - ICH STERBE TÄGLICH

LSB 620 - Jesus Comes Today with Healing - ALLES IST AN GOTTES SEGEN

LBW 622 - Lord Jesus Christ, You Have Prepared - DU LEBENSBROT, HERR JESU CHRIST

LBW 623 - Lord Jesus Christ, We Humbly Pray - HERR JESU CHRIST, DICH ZU UNS WEND

LSB 627 - Jesus Christ, Our Blessed Savior - JESUS CHRISTUS, UNSER HEILAND

LSB 628 - Your Table I Approach - ST. MICHAEL

LSB 630 - Now, My Tongue, the Mystery Telling - GRAFTON

LSB 636 - Soul, Adorn Yourself with Gladness - SCHMÜCKE DICH

LSB 637 - Draw Near and Take the Body of the Lord - OLD 124TH

LSB 640 - Thee We Adore, O Hidden Savior - ADORO TE DEVOTE

RH 86 - O Lord, We Praise You - GOTT SEI GELOBET UND GEBENDEIET

ACS 963 - Jesus Christ, Our Blessed Savior - JESUS CHRISTUS, UNSER HEILAND