For All Your Saints, O Lord, ELW 427, v. 4 & 5
Devotion
Former Luther Seminary Presidents David Tiede, in his commentary on Luke in this week’s Working Preacher entry (www.workingpreacher.org), states that All Saints Day is “a day of two miracles.” All Saints Day – as beautiful and poignant as it is – can lead us to focus primarily on those who have gone before us. But for Tiede, the power of All Saints has to start with God – God, in whom all things are possible: God, who can work all things together for good: God, who pours out love for the whole world in the form of Jesus; God, who is able to conquer death. Perhaps, then, we ought to start with praise and sing this hymn from the end first:
Prayer
(v. 4) For this, your name we bless and humbly pray anew that we like them in holiness may live and die in you.
(v.5) To God, the Father, Son, and Spirit, ever blest, the One in Three, the Three in One, be endless praise addressed.