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.

Week of Misericordias Domini - April 19-25, 2026

Theme: The Good Shepherd Calls with His Voice

Learn by Heart

Verse: Proverbs 3:11-12

My son, do not despise the Lord's discipline

or be weary of his reproof,

for the Lord reproves him whom he loves,

as a father the son in whom he delights.

Hymn: “The Lord My Faithful Shepherd Is” | ELH #368:1-4

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The Catechism:

Table of Duties

For Parents

Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord. Ephesians 6:4.

For Children

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with promise: “that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth.” Ephesians 6:1-3.

Preschool +

The Eighth Commandment

You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

What does this mean?

We should fear and love God, so that we do not lie about, betray or slander our neighbor, but excuse him, speak well of him, and interpret everything in the best possible way.

Week of Quasimodogeniti - April 12-18, 2026

Theme: You Have Life in the Name of the Risen Christ

Learn by Heart

Verse: John 11:25-26a

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die.”

Hymn: “The Lord My Faithful Shepherd Is” | ELH #368:1-2

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The Catechism: The Table of Duties

For Wives

Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Lord . . . as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose daughters you are as long as you do good and are not afraid with any terror. Ephesians 5:22; 1 Peter 3:6.

Preschool +

The Seventh Commandment

You shall not steal.

What does this mean?

We should fear and love God, so that we do not take our neighbor’s money or possessions, nor get them in any dishonest way, but help him to improve and protect his possessions and means of making a living.

Week of the Resurrection of Our Lord - April 5-11, 2026

Theme: Christ Alone Our Souls Will Feed

Learn by Heart

Verse: Matthew 10:32-33

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.

Hymn: “Christ Jesus Lay in Death’s Strong Bands” | ELH #343:1-7

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The Catechism: The Table of Duties

For Husbands

Likewise you husbands, dwell with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers not be hindered. 1 Peter 3:7.

Husbands, love your wives and do not be bitter toward them. Colossians 3:19.

Preschool +

The Sixth Commandment

You shall not commit adultery.

What does this mean?

We should fear and love God, so that we lead a sexually pure and decent life in word and deed, and that husband and wife each love and honor the other.