Chapel - Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Order of Service: - Prelude - Opening Prayer: P: Lord Jesus Christ, grant us grace to pass the time of our sojourning here in daily watchfulness, prayer and faith; C: Always looking for, and hastening the day of Your second coming when You will appear again in the clouds of heaven, with all Your holy angels. P: Do not let that day surprise us in unbelief and sin, but by Your grace enable us with all Your saints to lift up our heads in joy, and behold the fullness of our redemption. C: Hear us, O eternal Son of the Father, in whom with You and the Holy Spirit, is all honor and glory, now and forevermore. Amen. - Hymn 544 - Wake, Awake, For Night is Flying: vv. 1, 2 - Matthew 25:1-13: “Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Now five of them were wise, and five were foolish. Those who were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them, but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. But while the bride-groom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept. “And at midnight a cry was heard: ‘Behold, the bridegroom is coming; go out to meet him!’ Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said to the wise, “Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’ But the wise answered, saying, “No, lest there should not be enough for us and you; but go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.’ And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding; and the door was shut. “Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’But he answered and said, “Assuredly, I say to you, I do not know you.’ “Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming. - Devotion - Hymn 544 - Wake, Awake, For Night is Flying: vv. 3 - Blessing - Postlude Service Participants: Chaplain Don Moldstad (Preacher), Laura Matzke (Organist)