Lutheran Service Book

Lutheran Service Book
Publisher		Concordia Publishing House
Pages	1024
No. of Hymns	635
Psalms	107
Service music	5 settings of the Divine Service, 5 Daily Offices, other services
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Lutheran Service Book (LSB) is the newest official

. It was officially released on September 1, 2006, but many customers who pre-ordered the hymnal received their copies several weeks earlier.

In April 2015, Lutheran Service Book became the first Lutheran hymnal to be made available in ebook format.

Contents

• A selection of Psalms
• Five musical settings of the Divine Service
  • Setting One (by Richard Hillert, first introduced in Lutheran Book of Worship)
  • Setting Two (by Ronald A. Nelson, first introduced in Lutheran Book of Worship)
  • Setting Three (the
    Common Service
    of 1888)
  • Setting Four (first introduced in Hymnal Supplement 98)
  • Setting Five (based loosely on the Deutsche Messe by Martin Luther)
• Musical settings of the Daily Offices
  • Matins
  • Vespers
  • Morning Prayer
  • Evening Prayer
  • Compline
• Other orders of service
  • Service of Prayer and Preaching
  • Holy Baptism
  • Confirmation
  • Holy Matrimony
  • Funeral Service
  • Two orders for responsive prayer
    • Responsive Prayer 1 (Suffrages)
    • Responsive Prayer 2
  • The Litany
  • Corporate Confession and Absolution
  • Individual Confession and Absolution
  • Daily Prayer for Individuals and Families
• Daily Lectionary
• More than 100 prayers for various occasions and circumstances
• Martin Luther's Small Catechism
• 658 canticles, chorales, hymns, and songs, 23 of which are found in Lutheran Service Builder (see below)
• Comprehensive cross-referenced indexes

Editions

In addition to the pew edition, several other editions of LSB are available:

• Altar Book
• Accompaniment editions
  • LSB Accompaniment—Liturgy
  • LSB Accompaniment—Hymns
  • Guitar Edition
• Ebook Edition
• Lectionaries
  • Three-Year Lectionary—Year A
  • Three-Year Lectionary—Year B
  • Three-Year Lectionary—Year C
  • One-Year Lectionary
• Agenda
• Pastoral Care Companion

See also

• List of English-language hymnals by denomination

Lutheran Service Builder

In addition to the various print editions of the hymnal, the Commission on Worship prepared an electronic edition of Lutheran Service Book known as Lutheran Service Builder. This computer program is structured in order to allow churches to easily prepare printed orders of service and electronically presented orders of service, containing readings, hymns, and service music.

References

• Lutheran Service Book. St. Louis:
  ISBN 0-7586-1217-6
  .

External links

• Official site
• Official site for ebook edition^{[permanent dead link]}
• Database of Lutheran Hymns, shows which hymn is in which hymnal