A Maundy Thursday hymn

Thee we adore, O hidden Savior, Thee,
Who in Thy sacrament dost deign to be;
Both flesh and spirit at Thy presence fail,
Yet here Thy presence we devoutly hail.

O blest memorial of our dying Lord,
Who living Bread to men doth here afford!
O may our souls forever feed on Thee,
And Thou, O Christ, forever precious be.

Fountain of gladness, Jesu, Lord and God,
Cleanse us, unclean, with Thy most cleansing blood;
Increase our faith and love, that we may know
The hope and peace which from Thy presence flow.

O Christ, whom now beneath a veil we see,
May what we thirst for soon our portion be,
To gaze on Thee unveiled, and see Thy face,
The vision of Thy glory and Thy grace.

A Wedding Prayer

This was for Brad Belschner's wedding, where I was asked to pray for the new couple's role in their church and community:

O Triune God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, who have united in one body people of every tribe and nation and tongue in your Church, we thank you that today you unite in one flesh Brad and Sarah, born of different nations, and brought together today from across many lands and a wide sea. We thank you that they have been united in your Church, by your Church, for your Church, and as a sacrament of that blessed marriage between Christ and the Church.
We pray today that they would never forget this high calling and purpose of their marriage, that they might not only give themselves for one another and for you, but for all your people, in this congregation, this nation, and the world. To each of them you have given great gifts, gifts of knowledge, of love and compassion, of patience and diligence, and we pray that, by uniting these gifts today, your Spirit would make them wiser, more powerful, and more tireless in their service of your people than they would ever have been alone.

We pray that you would use their knowledge and the great power of their minds to understand your Word in fresh and powerful ways, and to illumine those around them with the wisdom they glean. We pray that they may take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ, and cast down strongholds of unbelief in their community, their country, and the world.
We pray that you would use their deep love and compassion to reach out to the needy of this city, and of every place in which they find themselves. Enable them to follow Christ on the hard road of self-sacrifice and number themselves with the poor and the lowly, for on the side of the oppressors there is power, and the weak have no comforter.
And because these tasks are endless, O Lord, for the power of unbelief is stubborn, and the tears of the oppressed are without number, we pray that you would strengthen them with ever greater gifts of patience and diligence, that they would never grow weary in doing good. For Lord, we know that “Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall utterly fall; but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up on wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.” And so, Lord, we pray to you today for the blessings of your wings upon Brad and Sarah; to shelter them when they are afraid, to raise them up when they are weary, and to speed them on the road you have laid before them; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, world without end. Amen.

Putting on the Armour of Light

Almighty God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility, that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge both the quick and the dead, we may rise to the life immoral, through him who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, now and ever. Amen.

O Almighty God, Who sent Thy Son into our darkness that we might come into Thy light, give us the eyes of faith, that we might see clearly in the twilight of this present age, until the Sun of Righteousness returns in glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with Thee and with the Holy Ghost ever, one God, world without end. Amen.

Easter Collect

Almighty God, who hast displayed Thy power in raising Thy Son Jesus from the dead, and in him hath destroyed the power of death and made all things new, grant that we who are in Christ might share with Him in the abundant life that lies beyond death, that we too might triumph over the power of death day by day, and at last, when our bodies sleep in the brief night of death, may we rise again to share in the never-ending day, when Christ our life shall be revealed; through the Lord Jesus Christ, the great Conqueror Who has gone before us beyond the veil. Amen.

Two Advent Collects

So Dr. Leithart gave us the awesome assignment, for Liturgical Theology class, of writing a collect every single day of the term. Since there's enough days to do it, I've decided to write mine as one for each week of the Church calendar. Here are those for the first two Sundays of Advent.

Advent 1
O Almighty God, Who sent Thy Son into our darkness that we might come into Thy light, give us the eyes of faith, that we might see clearly in the twilight of this present age, until the Sun of Righteousness returns in glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with Thee and with the Holy Ghost ever, one God, world without end. Amen.

Advent 2
O Lord Jesus Christ, Who at Thy first coming found your people an unfruitful vineyard, and trampled them in your wrath, grant that we may be faithful stewards of Your kingdom, that our work may be approved in that dread day of judgment when you return to reign; through Thy powerful name, at which every knee shall bow. Amen.