3/31/24 ~ The Resurrection of Our Lord
Service of Holy Communion ~ 8:00am
Prelude
Announcements
Proclamation of Christ’s Victory (Psalm 68 & Paschal Troparion)
Opening Hymn The Strife is O’er, the Battle Won, LBW 135
Invocation
Easter Proclamation of Forgiveness (Psalm 68, Rom 5 & Eph 2)
P: Let God arise; let His enemies be scattered!
C: Let those who hate Him flee before His face.
P: God shows His love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
C Even when we were dead in our trespasses, God made us alive together with Christ—by grace we
have been saved—and raised us up with Him.
P: Let the righteous be glad; let them exult before God:
Let them be jubilant with joy!
C: Sing to God, sing praises to His name!
P: Christ is risen!
C: He is risen indeed! Amen. Alleluia!
Hymn of Praise Thine is the Glory, LBW 145
Apostolic Greeting p. 57
Prayer of the Day
Almighty God, you have overcome death through your only-begotten Son, Jesus Christ, and have opened to us the gate of everlasting life. We humbly beseech you that as you put into our minds good desires, so by your continual help we may bring them to good effect; through Jesus Christ, our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.
Children’s Message
First Reading: Exodus 15:1-11
1Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the Lord, saying, “I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea. 2The Lord is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him. 3The Lord is a man of war; the Lord is his name. 4Pharaoh’s chariots and his host he cast into the sea, and his chosen officers were sunk in the Red Sea. 5The floods covered them; they went down into the depths like a stone. 6Your right hand, O Lord, glorious in power, your right hand, O Lord, shatters the enemy. 7In the greatness of your majesty you overthrow your adversaries; you send out your fury; it consumes them like stubble. 8At the blast of your nostrils the waters piled up; the floods stood up in a heap; the deeps congealed in the heart of the sea. 9The enemy said, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil, my desire shall have its fill of them. I will draw my sword; my hand shall destroy them.’ 10You blew with your wind; the sea covered them; they sank like lead in the mighty waters. 11Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods? Who is like you, majestic in holiness, awesome in glorious deeds, doing wonders?”
The Word of the Lord.
C: Thanks be to God.
New Testament Reading: 1 Corinthians 5:6b-8
6bDo you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? 7Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 8Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
The Word of the Lord.
C: Thanks be to God.
Gospel Acclamation This Joyful Eastertide WOV 676, v. 1
This joyful Eastertide, away with sin and sorrow!
My love, the Crucified, has sprung to life this morrow.
Had Christ who once was slain, not burst His three day prison,
Our faith had been in vain.
But now has Christ arisen, arisen, arisen, arisen!
The Holy Gospel: John 20:1-18
The Holy Gospel according to St. John, the 20th Chapter.
C: Glory to you, O Lord.
1Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. 2So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.” 3So Peter went out with the other disciple, and they were going toward the tomb. 4Both of them were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. 5And stooping to look in, he saw the linen cloths lying there, but he did not go in. 6Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying there, 7and the face cloth, which had been on Jesus’ head, not lying with the linen cloths but folded up in a place by itself. 8Then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed; 9for as yet they did not understand the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead. 10Then the disciples went back to their homes. 11But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb, and as she wept she stooped to look into the tomb. 12And she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and one at the feet. 13They said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.” 14Having said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, but she did not know that it was Jesus. 15Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?” Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.” 16Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned and said to him in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means Teacher). 17Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’” 18Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord” — and that he had said these things to her.
The Gospel of the Lord.
C: Praise to you, O Christ.
Gospel Response This Joyful Eastertide WOV 676 chorus
But now has Christ arisen, arisen, arisen, arisen!
Sermon
Hymn of Day Jesus Christ is Risen Today, LBW 151
Nicene Creed p. 64 LBW
Prayers of God’s People
Offering
Offertory The Doxology 564
Praise God from whom all blessings flow;
Praise Him, all creatures here below;
Praise Him above, Ye heav’nly host;
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost
Offertory Prayer p. 67 LBW
Great Thanksgiving and Proper Preface p. 68 LBW
Sanctus
Holy, holy, holy Lord,
God of pow’r and might:
Heaven and earth are full of your glory.
Hosanna. Hosanna. Hosanna in the highest.
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.
Hosanna in the highest.
Christ’s Words of Institution
The Lord’s Prayer & Invitation p. 71 LBW
Distribution of Communion
Post-Communion Blessing & Prayer p. 72 LBW
Benediction p. 74
Recessional Hymn Christ is Risen! Alleluia, LBW 131
Dismissal p. 74 LBW
Postlude
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