Opening Hymn:   #206 – Christ the Lord is Risen Today

Christ the Lord is risen today, Alleluia!

Earth and heaven in chorus say, Alleluia!

Raise your joys and triumphs high, Alleluia!

Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply, Alleluia!

Love's redeeming work is done, Alleluia!

Fought the fight, the battle won, Alleluia!

Death in vain forbids him rise, Alleluia!

Christ has opened paradise, Alleluia!

Lives again our glorious King, Alleluia!

Where, O death, is now thy sting? Alleluia!

Once he died our souls to save, Alleluia!

Where's thy victory, boasting grave? Alleluia!

Soar we now where Christ has led, Alleluia!

Following our exalted Head, Alleluia!

Made like him, like him we rise, Alleluia!

Ours the cross, the grave, the skies, Alleluia!

Hail the Lord of earth and heaven, Alleluia!

Praise to thee by both be given, Alleluia!

Thee we greet triumphant now, Alleluia!

Hail the Resurrection, thou, Alleluia!

 

Officiant Opening Prayer:

Alleluia! The Lord has risen indeed: O come, let us worship.

From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same, the LORD'S name is to be praised. Ps 113:3

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.

Almighty God, to you all hearts are open, all desires known, and from you no secrets are hidden. Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of your Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love you, and worthily magnify your holy name; through Christ our Lord. Amen

The Jubilate  Be joyful in the Lord, all you lands; serve the Lord with gladness and come before his presence with a song.  Know this: The Lord himself is God; he himself has made us, and we are his; we are his people and the sheep of his pasture.  Enter his gates with thanksgiving; go into his courts with praise; give thanks to him and call upon his Name.  For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his faithfulness endures from age to age. *** Glory be to the Father, and to the Son : and to the Holy Spirit; as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be : world without end.*** Amen.

Let us confess our sins against God and our neighbor (silence is held)

The Readings: (Lynn Gray)

1st Lesson: ISAIAH 25:6-9

The PSALM   118:1-2, 14-24   REFRAIN: On this day the Lord has acted; we will rejoice and be glad.  

2nd Lesson: ACTS 10:34-43

Gospel Hymn: My Love Colours Outside the Lines

My love colours outside the lines,

Exploring paths that few could ever find

And takes me into places where I’ve never been before

And opens doors to worlds outside the lines.

Refrain: We’ll never walk on water if we’re not prepared to

drown, body and soul need a soaking from time to time.

And we’ll never move the gravestones if we’re not prepared to

die and realize there are worlds outside the lines.

My Lord colours outside the lines,

turns wounds to blessings, water into wine;

and takes me into places where I’ve never been before

and opens doors to worlds outside the lines.

My soul longs to colour outside the lines,

tear back the curtains, sun come in and shine,

I want to walk beyond the boundaries,

where I’ve never been before,

throw open doors to worlds outside the lines.

The Gospel:   JOHN 20:1-18

Reflection: “Colouring Outside the Lines”

The Creed: I believe in God, The Father almighty, Creator of heaven and earth. I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord. He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit And born of the Virgin Mary. He suffered under Pontius Pilate, Was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended to the dead. On the third day he rose again. He ascended into heaven, And is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again To judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, The holy catholic Church, The communion of saints, The forgiveness of sins, The resurrection of the body, And the life everlasting.  Amen.

The Offertory: God our strength and salvation, receive all we offer you this day, and grant that we who have confessed your name, and received new life in baptism, may live in the joy of the resurrection, through Jesus Christ the Lord.

Prayers of People (Fr. Michael Booth)

The Lord’s Prayer (spoken in our mother tongue)

A Collect: Lord of life and power, through the mighty resurrection of your Son, you have overcome the old order of sin and death and have made all things new in him. May we, being dead to sin and alive to you in Jesus Christ, reign with him in glory, who with you and the Holy Spirit is alive, one God, now and for ever. Amen

Closing Hymn: #237 Now the Green Blade Rises

Now the green blade rises, from the buried grain,

Wheat that in dark earth many days has lain;

Love lives again, that with the dead has been:

Love is come again like wheat arising green.

In the grave they laid Him, Lord by hatred slain,

Thinking that He would never wake again,

Laid in the earth like grain that sleeps unseen:

Love is come again like wheat arising green.

Forth He came at Easter, like the risen grain,

He that for three days in the grave had lain;

raised from the dead, my living Lord is seen:

Love is come again like wheat arising green.

When our hearts are wintry, grieving, or in pain,

your touch can call us back to life again,

Fields of our hearts that dead and bare have been:

Love is come again like wheat arising green.

Rev. Alastair’s Sunday Quote:

“Jesus loves me this I know, for the bible tells me so”

~Anna Barlett Warner (b. 1827, hymn writer)