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Lutheran Service Book (LSB) is the newest official hymnal of The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod (LCMS). It was prepared by the LCMS Commission on Worship and published by Concordia Publishing House, the official publisher of the LCMS. It is the fourth official English-language hymnal of the LCMS published since the synod began transitioning form German to English in the early 1900s. LSB is intended to succeed both The Lutheran Hymnal (TLH) and Lutheran Worship (LW) as the common hymnal of the LCMS. Supplemental and companion editions to the hymnal are scheduled for release throughout the end of 2006 and into 2007. The hymnal was officially approved by the LCMS at the 2004 LCMS National Convention in St. Louis. It was officially released on September 1, 2006, but many customers who pre-ordered the hymnal received their copies several weeks earlier.

Lutheran Service Book is, coincidentally, one of two major Lutheran hymnals that were published almost simultaneously in the fall of 2006. Evangelical Lutheran Worship, the new hymnal of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, was released in October 2006. The projects are in no way related.

Contents 1 Contents 2 Editions 3 Lutheran Service Builder 4 References 5 External links

• Most of the 150 Psalms
• Five musical settings of the Divine Service
  • Setting One (by Richard W. 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 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
• 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

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
• Lectionaries
  • Three-Year Lectionary—Year A
  • Three-Year Lectionary—Year B
  • Three-Year Lectionary—Year C
  • One-Year Lectionary
• Agenda
• Pastoral Care Companion

In addition to the myriad 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 containing readings, hymns, and service music.

• Lutheran Service Book published by Concordia Publishing House ISBN 0-7586-1217-6

• Official site