A Guide for Daily Prayer and Meditation: May 25 - June 1, 2025
Pray and confess out loud as much as you are able or based on your family size and ages. (Alternative orders in LSB pp295-8)
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The sign of the cross + may be made by all in remembrance of their baptism.
In the name of the Father and of the + Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
| Morning | Close of the Day |
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In the morning, O Lord, You hear my voice; In the morning I prepare a sacrifice for You and watch |
The Lord Almighty grant us a quiet night and peace at the last. Amen. |
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My mouth is filled with Your praise, And with Your glory all the day. |
It is good to give thanks to the Lord, To sing praise to Your name, O Most High; |
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O Lord, open my lips, And my mouth will declare Your praise. |
To herald Your love in the morning; Your truth at the close of the day. |
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit; as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen.
Hymn of the Month for May LSB 633 At the Lamb’s High Feast We Sing
Hymn of the Month for June LSB 709 The King of Love My Shepherd Is
One or more verses from the hymn of the month are sung, or another hymn may be chosen.
Verse of the Week: Romans 6:9; John 16:33
We know that Christ being raised from the dead will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him.
In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.
Daily Lectionary
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday | |
| Old Testament |
Numbers 3:1-16,39-48 |
Numbers 8:5-26 |
Numbers 9:1-23 |
Numbers 10:11-36 |
Numbers 11:1-23, 31-35 |
Numbers 11:24-29; 12:1-16 |
Numbers 13:1-3, 17-33 |
Numbers 14:1-25 |
| Psalms |
135:13-21 60 |
103:6-14 70 |
85:1-7 18 |
62:5-10 19 |
130 47 |
77:11-15 8 |
119:97-104 22 |
81:10-16 9 |
| New Testament |
Luke 14:25-15:10 |
Luke 15:11-32 |
Luke 16:1-18 |
Luke 16:19-31 |
Luke 17:1-19 |
Luke 17:20-37 |
Luke 18:1-17 |
Luke 18:18-34 |
What Holy Baptism Indicates
What does such baptizing with water indicate?
It indicates that the Old Adam in us should by daily contrition and repentance be drowned and die with all sins and evil desires, and that a new man should daily emerge and arise to live before God in righteousness and purity forever.
Where is this written?
St. Paul writes in Romans chapter six: We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.
(Go to bottom of next page for related Bible verses and/or excerpts from Large Catechism.)
The Apostles’ Creed is confessed † Lord’s Prayer † Prayers for Others and Ourselves (see LSB 305-318 for prayers)
In Our Prayers: Those who are suffering: Shirley Arndt, Fred Burkart (Tiffany Drinkman’s father), Anita Dommer, Duane Draeger (Janet Fischer’s brother), Dan Drinkman, JoAnn Ehlers, Lois Eichinger, Louis and Mary Gettler, Harold & Joan Grunwald (Susan’s parents), Chuck Heidtke (Ed’s brother), Marlys Jones, Pastor Jones, Rick Lahner (Carter’s grandfather), Greg Leland, Missy Lien (Thomas family friend), Lacie Miles (Chrystal’s sister-in-law), Marlene Paulson (Dianne Schroeder’s sister), Kathy Peterson, Doris Post, Mark Radl, Pastor Szedlak, Jeff Thomas (Pastor’s brother), Ethel Vance
Collect for the Sixth Sunday of Easter
O God, the giver of all that is good, by Your holy inspiration grant that we may think those things that are right and by Your merciful guiding accomplish them; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.
Prayer based on What Holy Baptism Indicates[1]
Heavenly Father, You have forgiven our sins, rescued us from death and the devil, and given us eternal life by Baptism into the death and resurrection of Your beloved Son. Strengthen our faith so that we daily put to death all sins and evil desires and, trusting Your sure promises, are raised to live before You in righteousness and purity. Finally, bring us to the fulfillment of our Baptism in the resurrections of the body to life everlasting: through Your Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.
| Morning | Close of the Day |
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Almighty God, merciful Father, who created and completed all things, on this day when the work of our calling begins anew, we implore You to create its beginning, direct its continuance, and bless its end, that our doings may be preserved from sin, our life sanctified, and our work be well pleasing to you; through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. I thank you my heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ, Your dear Son, that have kept me this night from all harm and danger; and I pray that You would keep me this day also from sin and every evil, that all my doings and life may please You. For into Your hands I commend myself, my body and soul, and all things. Let Your holy angel be with me, that the evil foe may have no power over me. Amen |
Visit our dwellings, O Lord, and in Your great mercy defend us from all perils and dangers of this night; for the love of Your only Son, our Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. I thank You, my heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ, Your dear Son, that You have graciously kept me this day; and I pray that You would forgive me all my sins where I have done wrong, and graciously keep me this night. For into Your hands I commend myself, my body and soul and all things. Let Your holy angel be with me that the evil foe may have no power over me. Amen. |
Let us bless the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
Bible Verses for Meditation on What Holy Baptism Indicates
-But when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God. Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.” Mark 10:14-15
-So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven, but whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven. Matthew 10:32-33
-And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.”
Luke 9:23
- But that is not the way you learned Christ!— assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness. Ephesians 4:20-24
-I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. Galatians 2:20
[1] Luther’s Small Catechism with Explanation. St. Louis: Concordia, 2017.