Song of Songs Advent Devotion for Couples – Advent 2 Tuesday

Lo, how a rose e’er blooming. We hear these familiar words around Christmas. This unique image of Christ and the Church is from Song of Songs 2, and it can teach us about our relationship to Christ, and to those closest to us.

Opening Prayer

The first and second Advent candles (violet) are lit.

The husband may say, or the couple may say together:

In the name of the Father and of † the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Heavenly Father, who has created man and woman and provided them with the estate of marriage, provide us in our relationship the kind of love that reflects your love for us. For you gave your Son to purchase us by his blood, and you will send him again to bring us to the heavenly wedding feast on the Last Day. Strengthen us by your Word as we expect his Advent.  In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.

Together you may confess the Apostles’ Creed and pray the Lord’s Prayer.

Song of Songs 2:1-2

Wedding – Marital Bliss

Wife: I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys.

Husband: As a lily among brambles, so is my love among the young women.

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Discussion

Rose:   The “Rose of Sharon” has traditionally been used as an image of the Virgin Mary, who bore and gave birth to God’s Son; it is also an image of the Church. 

Why might a rose be a picture of the Church?  

When the angel Gabriel announced God’s Word to Mary that she would be the mother of God, she believed the angel’s words and so received Jesus in her womb as “conceived by the Holy Spirit.”

When we hear God’s Word, what (or whom) do we receive?

Through Christ, we who were “thorny” become lovely.

Hymn

Hymn verses this week: “The Bridegroom Soon Will Call Us,” vv. 3, 6

(Listen to the melody here)

3. They will not blush to own us
As brothers, sisters dear;
Love ever will be shown us
When we with them appear.
We all shall come before Him
Who for us Man became,
As Lord and God adore Him,
And ever bless His name.

6. In mansions fair and spacious
Will God the feast prepare
And, ever kind and gracious,
Bid us its riches share.
There bliss that knows no measure
From springs of love shall flow,
And never-changing pleasure
His bounty will bestow.

Author: Johann Walter; Translator: Matthias Loy

Benediction

The almighty and most merciful Lord, the Father, the † Son, and the Holy Spirit bless and preserve us. Amen.

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Devotions by Rev. Michael Lilienthal and Rev. Jeff Hendrix.