Week of Trinity 3 - June 21-27, 2026
Theme: Jesus Seeks Our Repentance
Week of Pentecost - May 24-30, 2026
Theme: The Triune God Makes You His Home
Learn by Heart
Verse: Luke 10:27
And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”
Hymn: “These Are the Holy Ten Commands” | ELH #490:4-5
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The Catechism:
The Third Commandment
You shall keep the day of rest holy.
What does this mean?
We should fear and love God, so that we do not despise preaching and His Word, but regard it as sacred and gladly hear and learn it.
The Fourth Commandment
Honor your father and your mother, that it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth.
What does this mean?
We should fear and love God, so that we do not despise our parents and superiors, nor provoke them to anger, but honor, serve, obey, love and esteem them.
Week of Cantate - May 3-9, 2026
Theme: You Have Sorrow Now for a Little While
Learn by Heart
Verse: John 14:2-3
In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.
Hymn: “O Sing with Exultation” | ELH #365:1-2
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The Catechism:
Table of Duties
For Masters and Mistresses
Masters, do the same things to them, giving up threatening, knowing that your own Master also is in heaven, and there is no partiality with Him. Ephesians 6:9.
For Young Persons in General
You younger people, submit yourselves to your elders. Yes, all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time. 1 Peter 5:5-6.
Preschool +
The Tenth Commandment
You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, workers, animals, or anything that is his.
What does this mean?
We should fear and love God, so that we do not tempt, force or coax away from our neighbor his wife or his workers, but urge them to stay and fulfill their responsibility.
Week of Jubilate - April 26 - May 2, 2026
Theme: You Have Sorrow Now for a Little While
Learn by Heart
Verse: Mark 10:45
“For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
Hymn: “The Lord My Faithful Shepherd Is” | ELH #368:1-6
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The Catechism:
Table of Duties
Table of Duties
For Male and Female Servants, Hired Men, and Laborers
Servants, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in sincerity of your heart, as to Christ; not with eye service, as men-pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, with good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men, knowing that whatever good anyone does, he will receive the same from the Lord, whether he is a slave or free. Ephesians 6:5-8.
Preschool +
The Ninth Commandment
You shall not covet your neighbor’s house.
What does this mean?
We should fear and love God, so that we do not craftily seek to get our neighbor’s inheritance or home, nor get it by a show of right, but help and serve him in keeping it.
