The Rev. Mark Surburg has written a helpful overview of celebrating the sacrament of the altar every Sunday: viewed in light of scripture, tradition, the Lutheran confessions, and contemporary American Lutheran practice.

Two LCMS services for the Feast of All Saints, November 1, 2026:

The Hebrew chesed is normally translated as “mercy,” which doesn’t quite do it justice, because the term contains also elements of eager zeal and desire, that is, fierceness; and it is commonly used in the imprecatory Psalms.