Evening Prayer is on Wednesdays at 6:30pm during Advent and Lent.
What is Evening Prayer?
Evening Prayer is a simple service of scripture and prayer. The tradition comes from the practices of monks and nuns that regulated their days with moments of prayer and worship. This reminded them during the day that all they have is due to the gifts of God. Martin Luther was also one of these monks and encouraged the church to keep the practice of Morning and Evening Prayer. Luther was so frustrated with his own followers not keeping this practice that he created a smaller version that people could say in bed. So join us one afternoon and take a break from the hectic modern world to experience God in simple worship.
Luther’s Morning Prayer
We give thanks to you, heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ your dear Son, that you have protected us through the night from all danger and harm. We ask you to preserve and keep us, this day also, from all sin and evil, that in all our thoughts, words, and deeds we may serve and please you. Into your hands we commend our bodies and souls and all that is ours. Let your holy angels have charge of us, that the wicked one have no power over us. Amen.
Luther’s Evening Prayer
We give thanks to you, heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ your dear Son, that you have this day so graciously protected us. We beg you to forgive us all our sins and the wrong which we have done. By your great mercy defend us from all the perils and dangers of this night. Into your hands we commend our bodies and souls and all that is ours. Let your holy angels have charge of us, that the wicked one have no power over us. Amen.
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