2: Matins for Transfiguration

Service of Matins
2008 February 4: Monday, 12:00 AM
Concordia University Wisconsin, Rogate Chapel

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EXALT THE LORD OUR GOD; worship at His footstool! Holy is He!
Moses and Aaron were among His preists, Samuel also was among those who called upon His name. They called to the LORD, and He answered them.
In the pillar of cloud He spoke to them; they kept His testimonies and the statute that He gave them.
O LORD our God, You answered them; You were a forgiving God to them, but an avenger of their wrongdoings.
Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at His holy mountain; for the LORD our God is holy!
(Psalm 99, ESV)
Glory be to the Father...

:Hymn:
Alleluia, song of gladness, voice of joy that cannot die; alleluia is the anthem ever raised by choirs on high; In the house of God abiding thus they sing eternally.

Alleluia, thou resoundest, true Jerusalem and free; alleluia, joyful mother, all thy children sing with thee, but by Babylon's sad waters mourning exiles now are we.

Alleluia cannot always be our song while here below; alleluia, our transgressions make us for a while forgo; for the solemn time is coming when our tears for sin must flow.

Therefore in our hymns we pray Thee, grant us, blessed Trinity, at the last to keep Thine Easter with Thy faithful saints on high; there to Thee forever singing alleluia joyfully.

Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit now and ever and unto ages. Amen. Yes, amen.
On the mountain you were transfigured, O Christ, God, and Your disciples beheld Your glory as far as they could see it, so that when they would behold You crucified, they would understand that Your suffering was voluntary, and would proclaim to the world that You are truly the Radiance of the Father.

:Reading:
About eight days after Jesus said this, he took Peter, John and James with him and went up onto a mountain to pray. As he was praying, the appearance of his face changed, and his clothes became as bright as a flash of lightning. Two men, Moses and Elijah, appeared in glorious splendor, talking with Jesus. They spoke about his departure, which he was about to bring to fulfillment at Jerusalem. Peter and his companions were very sleepy, but when they became fully awake, they saw his glory and the two men standing with him. As the men were leaving Jesus, Peter said to him, "Master, it is good for us to be here. Let us put up three shelters—one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah." (He did not know what he was saying.)

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[gasness1]

Some history on this chapel: This is the Rogate Chapel at Concordia University Wisconsin. The school purchased the campus from the School Sisters of Notre Dame. So the chapel was originally "Catholic." However, I don't know what everybody is seeing that looks like a tabernacle. I was around this chapel for four years and I only saw one leftover in the sacristy. Up there on the altar is the Gospel, an icon of Mary on the left, Christ on the right, and as I recall, a slip of paper with a ...

[gasness1]

prayer request written on it. Those icons belonged to my friend, not to the chapel. They were only there for a couple weeks. Before the altar is a little lecturn from which we read the Scriptures. I thank God that we inherited this space from the Roman Catholics, along with our greater Chapel of Christ Triumphant and Chapel of Prayer and Meditation. If LCMS Lutherans had built the place, I doubt we would have had a chapel like this at all!

[pipeup1]

Truly a revelation that Lutherans can worship in this form. The presence of the tabernacle and what it contains is interesting since I never thought that Lutherans would reserve the sacrament. Interesting.

[gasness1]

@pipeup1 That is not a tabernacle. You're right Lutherans don't reserve the Sacrament. I guess I don't know what you're looking at. Maybe one of the icons on the altar. But even those are used by Lutherans differently than by the Orthodox.

[RevWarRev]

@brassspitoon Lutherans have a wide variety of Liturgical expression, from high church that rivals any Anglican or Orthodox liturgy, to high tech seekers services. I grew up in a Lutheran congregation that did beautiful high lit, especially on Festivals -banners, incense, torches, crucifers- but it was the spirit wedded to the liturgy that made it beautiful and profound.

[RevWarRev]

Some Lutherans do reserve the Sacrament

[Shocknlawl]

@stpaulLCMSchurch Exactly: all the great taste of catholocism, minus all the calories :).... Calories are like the whole praying to saints thing and other such non scriptural stuff.

[RainShowers2505]

@pipeup1  It's definitely not a tabernacle; Lutherans don't reserve the sacrament for adoration.

Leftover Communion elements are either consumed, kept in the sacristy for future use (bread and wine in the flagon only; wine in the chalice is usually consumed or poured out) poured onto the earth/buried or put down a special sink that empties directly into the ground, rather than the sewer system.

[mkl62]

I am an ELCA Lutheran from South Carolina. I play the piano and organ. Today (March 6, Transfiguration Sunday), we sang this as our opening hymn. I also played it as the closing hymn at a local Lutheran Church that I filled in at. It is #318 in Evangelical Lutheran Worship. So ends the Alleluia's until Easter.

[stpaulLCMSchurch]

@pipeup1 This is Lutheran. Lutherans are Catholic-Lite.