Daily Devotion for 24 April 2023 (Easter 3, Monday)

• Psalm 80
• Psalm 27
• Exodus 33:1–23
• Luke 7:1–17
• Formula of Concord: Solid Declaration, VII, 77–84

Commemoration

Today we commemorate Johann Walter, Kantor. Having begun his service — as a composer and bass singer — in the court of Frederick the Wise at the age of twenty-one, Johann Walter would go on to publish a collection of hymns that would become the basis of many subsequent hymnals. Walter would serve for a total of thirty years as kantor in the cities of Torgau and Dresden. Additionally, he aided Martin Luther in the preparation of the German Mass.