Old Lutheran Quote of the Day

Indeed, the church learned to praise and give thanks in his [our Lord's] thanksgiving and in his praise. With her thanksgiving she joins together in his, in the praise which the eternal Son brings to the Father. The church learned this in the Eucharist, in the Supper, just as she on the whole first learned there to pray correctly. For the liturgy, the prayer of the church, proceeds from the celebration of the Supper. -- Hermann Sasse, *The Lonely Way* I:481,482