February 22, 2012

Immanuel Lutheran Church

616 Lake Street, Evanston, Illinois 60201

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Q: Why does your website change colors?

A: You will notice that our website changes colors with the liturgical seasons:

Advent - Blue is used for its references to hope.

Christmas - White/Gold is used, as a reference to the purity of the newborn Christ, and to our light and joy in him.

Lent - Purple is indicated, as the stark color of repentance and solemnity.

Easter - White/Gold as the color of joy in the Resurrection.

Pentecost - Red as the color of fire is used when we remember the tongues of fire descended on the crowd in Jerusalem.

Other Sundays of the year use green to indicate our growth in faith as we follow the teachings and ministry of Christ.

19 Feb 12

For the first Sunday in Lent we turn to Setting Three from the Lutheran Book of Worship (LBW) for the Service of Holy Communion. Organist Laurie Stivers will play variations on ERHALT UNS, HERR arranged by Culli, Koch, Bach, Walter, Rotermund, and others.

The Entrance Hymn and Kyrie will be replaced by the Great Litany. The Hymn of the Day is LBW 230 Lord, Keep Us Steadfast in Your Word and the Communion Hymn LBW 226 Draw Near and Take the Body of the Lord. The Sending Hymn is LBW 99 O Lord, Throughout These Forty Days.

As the anthem, the Adult Choir will sing Call to Remembrance by Richard Farrant (c.1530–1580). The text is based on Psalm 25:

Call to remembrance, O Lord,

Thy tender mercy and Thy loving kindness,

which hath been ever of old.

O remember not the sins and offences of my youth,
but according to Thy mercy, think Thou on me, O Lord,

for Thy goodness.