Daily Devotion for 24 April 2024 (Easter 4, Wednesday)

• Psalm 19
• Psalm 50
• Leviticus 16:1–24
• Luke 10:1–22
• Formula of Concord: Solid Declaration, VIII, 16–22

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.