# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_1983_S359
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

PROPOSED AGENDA 359

and keep her in sickness and in health and, forsaking all others, be husband to her as
long as you both shall live?

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The pastor asks the bride:
Py ___-- ___. will you have this man to be your husband, to live with him in hols
marriage according to the Word of God? Will you love him, comfort him, honor
him, obey him. and keep him in sickness and in health and, forsaking all others. be
wife to him as long as you both shall live?

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&. The pastor leads the bride and bridegroom to the altar

9. The bridegroom. taking the night hand of the bride and facing her. say vatter the
pastor:

I, an the presence of God and these witnesses. take sou.
cans / to be my wite, to have and to hold trom this day forward. for

better. for Worse. for richer, for poorer. in sickness and in health. to love and to

cherish, until death parts us. and [ pledge you my taithtulness

HL. The bride and bridegroom exchange rings, saving

Receive this cing as a pledge and token ot wedded love und huthtulness

12 The paster mas speak a blessing upon the pledging ot thew love with the
exchange of rines

» Grant your blessing, O Lord, to your servants —__-_ and __-_
that they may be ever mindful of their solemn pledge and. trusting in your mercy,
abound evermore in love all their days: through Jesus Christ. our Lord.

s Amen

13. The bride and bridegroom kneel, and the pastor sass

P Now that — and ___ have consented together in holy
marriage, have given themselves to each other by their solemn pledges, and have
declared the same before God and these witnesses. I pronounce them to be
husband and wife, in the name of the Father and of the + Son and of the Hols
Spint.

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PROPERS

INTROIT

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The Lord ts good and his love For the Lerd ss good and his love
endures forever.” endures tore
His tarthruiness continues through fis fuithfuiness continues through
all generations all generatrons
Shout tor vey te the Lord.* Glory be te the Father and te the Sor*
all the earth and to the Hois Spin:

as it Was in the be
snow und will be forever. Ames

Serve the Lord with gadness.*

come bet mm with losfui songs

The Lord is good and his love
endures fores
His taithiuiness continues through

Know that the Lord is God.*
Tuas he who made us, und we are

hiss we are his people. the sheep
peor r all generations
ot hts pasture *

f4ntiphon Ps fetes. Ps. [00
Enter his gates w:th thunksgn ing P ,

and his courts with praise.*
gtve thanks to him and praise his
name

COLLECT

O God. our dwelting place in al! generations. look with favor upon the homes of our
land. Embrace husbands and wives. parents and children, in the arms of your love.
Bless our homes that they may ever be a shelter for the defenseless, a bulwark for
the tempted, a resting place for the weary. and a foretaste of our eternal home in
you: through Jesus Christ, your Son, our Lord. who lives and reigns with you and
the Holy Spirit. one God, now and forever.

What God has joined together. let no one separate.
@ Amen

P The almighty and gracious God abundantly grant you his favor, and sanctify
and bless you with the blessing given our first parents in paradise that you may
please him in both body and soul and live together in holy love until your life's
end.

@ Amen
Stand
P Let us pray.

Almighty. everlasting God, our heavenly Father, grant that by your blessing
and ___ may live together according to your Word and
promise. Strengthen them in faithfulness and love toward each other. Sustain and
defend them in all trial and temptation. Help them to live in faith toward you in
the communion of your holy Church and in loving service to each other that they
may ever enjoy your heasenty blessing: through Jesus Christ. your Son, our Lord,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit. one God, now and forever.

@ Amen

@ Our Father who art in heaven. OR @ Our Father in heaven.

hallowed be thy name. hallowed be your name.
thy kingdom come. sour kingdom come,
thy will be done sour will be done
on earth as itis in heaven on garth as in heaven
Give us this day our dads bread: Give us todays our daily bread
und forgive US OUT [fespasses Forgive us our sins
as We forgive those us We forgive those
Who trespass against us: who sin against us
and lead us not inte temptauen, Lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from esi) but deliver us from evil
For thing is the kingdom For the kingdom, the power,
and the power and the glon and the vlon are sours

ver and ever. Amen now and forever. Amen

14. The pastor pronounces the Blessing

P The eternal God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. grant you his Holy
Spirit. be with you, and richly bless you now and forever.

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READINGS

Psalm 121
Genests 2:13-25
Ephesians $:21-33
John 21-t1

or John, 1$:12-18
or Matthew 19:46

GRADUAL

Blessed are all whe tear the Lord.*
wsho walk in his ways.
You sili eat the truut of your
labor.*
blessings and pros

be sours (Ps 22k f

VERSE