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Trinity-St. Stephens United Church 1 Ratchford St., P.O. Box 413, Amherst, NS, B4H 3Z5
Email: [email protected] Web: www.tssuc.com
Nigel Weaver (902-667-8443)
Jeff Joudrey
Erika Benjamin (902-667-8483)
Terry Lawless
Intentional Interim Minister:
Director of Music:
Administrative Assistant:
Custodian:
Worship on the Easter Sunday
March 27, 2016
Easter sketch by TSSUC Youth - Hannah Jolly
Todays bulletin is given in loving memory of
Paul Cullen by Daphne and family.
mailto:[email protected]
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Prelude: Sonata Prima (movements 1 & 4) Giovanni Viviani Curtis Dietz - Trumpet
Lighting the Christ Candle and Welcome
We stand for the trumpet fanfare (Abblasen Fanfare J.S. Bach) and remain standing to sing:
Red Hymnbook 155
We sit and say:
ONE: Long before ever there was a long ago
ALL: God spoke.
ONE: Yes. Spoke words of love
ALL: and all creation came to be.
ONE: But soon God found
ALL: words were not enough.
ONE: God acted.
ALL:
ONE: Looking, and sounding,
ALL: thinking and feeling,
ONE: working and playing,
ALL: laughing and crying,
ONE: dreaming and sighing,
ALL: like one of us.
ONE: Gods love came.
ALL: Yes. Jesus came and lived with us.
ONE: Lived with us, and died like us.
ALL: Lived with us, and died like us.
ONE: But lives again.
ALL: Yes. Lives again.
ONE: The stone is rolled away.
ALL: The tomb is empty.
ONE: Grave wrappings lie folded.
ALL: Angels appear.
ONE: Friends to find
ALL:
ONE: News to share
ALL: Music to make, songs and hymns to sing.
Easter Music Memorials
We gratefully acknowledge the following memorial gifts
which support this mornings celebratory Easter music:
Susan Taylor and Gil Collicott
By Wanda McSorley
Lionel & Ruth Naylor, Ken Drury and James & Dorothy Trueman
By Ian & Kathy Naylor
Dorothy MacNeil
By Kathy Curtis and family
Ron Faulkner
By Vera and family
Gil Collicott
By Bruce Baxter
In memory of loved ones
By Treva and Peter Hebb
Eugene Gene Mooney
By Nancy and children
Walter & Courtenay Purdy
By Anne Purdy
Della Joudrey and Russell Garraway
By Jeff & Susan Joudrey and family
Phil Joudrey & Martin Provost
In memory of his parents, Lillian Broomhead & Leonard Weaver
By Rev. Nigel Weaver
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ONE: Lord God, early in the morning, when the world was young,
ALL: you made life in all its beauty and terror;
you gave birth to all that we know.
ONE: Early in the morning, when the world least expected it,
ALL: a newborn child crying in a cradle
announced that you had come among us,
that you were one of us.
ONE: Early in the morning,
surrounded by respectable liars, religious leaders,
anxious statesmen and silent friends,
ALL: you accepted the penalty for doing good,
for being God:
you shouldered and suffered the cross.
ONE: Early in the morning, a voice in a guarded graveyard
and footprints in the dew proved that you had risen,
ALL: that you had come back
to those, and for those
who had forgotten, denied, destroyed you.
ONE: Lord God, early in the morning,
ALL: in the multi -coloured company of your Church on earth and in heaven,
we celebrate your creation, your life,
your death and resurrection,
your interest in us.
Music - text and melody - printed in the bulletin is used by permission, all rights reserved,
and is licensed for our congregations use under Onelicense.net License No. A-725866 and
LicenSingOnline License No. 626270.
words and music: Natalie Sleeth 1976 Hinshaw Music, (VU 175);
words and music Jim Strathdee 1985 Desert Flower Music, (VU 974)
Liturgy: For the Darkness of Waiting, Janet Morley, All Desires Known 1988, 1992 Morehouse Press.
Other liturgy Nigel Weaver
Notes of thanks: We extend a warm welcome to guest trumpeter, Curtis Dietz and thank
him for contributing to the Ministry of Music this Easter Sunday. Curtis plays trumpet with
Symphony Nova Scotia and has participated in our last three Easter Sunday services - last
year with the Maritime Brass Quintet. He has been playing trumpet for over 30 years (even
though he doesn't look that old!) and is the proud father of two wonderful daughters Greta
and Kate, and a son Peter with wife Gina Patterson. We again express our appreciation to
Curtis for travelling from Hackett's Cove to share his music with us this Easter Sunday.
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ONE: Jesus stood among them and said,
ALL:
ONE: Then he breathed on them and said,
ALL: Receive the Holy Spirit.
ONE: If you forgive someones sins they are gone for good.
ALL: If you don't forgive sins,
ONE: The Peace of Christ be with you.
ALL: And also with you.
We share this greeting with one another then sing:
ONE: And we pray:
ALL: Bring new life
where we are worn and tired;
new love
where we have turned hard -hearted;
forgiveness
where we have been hurt
and where we have wounded. Amen.
ONE: For the darkness of loving
in which it is safe to surrender
to let go of our self-protection
and to stop holding back our desire,
ALL: we praise you O God
for the darkness and the light
are both alike to you.
ONE: For the darkness of choosing
when you give us the moment
to speak, and act, and change,
and we cannot know
what we have set in motion,
but still we have to take the risk,
ALL: we praise you O God
for the darkness and the light
are both alike to you.
ONE: For the darkness of hoping
in a world which longs for you,
for the wrestling and the labouring
of all creation
for wholeness and justice and freedom,
ALL: we praise you O God
for the darkness and the light
are both alike to you.
Hymn: Hail the Day that Sees Him Rise Red Hymnbook 189 (tune: Llanfair pg. 875)
We stand for the Sending Forth and Blessing and remain standing to sing:
Postlude: Marc Antoine Charpentier
Curtis Dietz Trumpet
The postlude concludes worship; it is not a performance. Applause is not required. p. 4
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ONE: Let us present our offerings with prayer and praise. Let us pray:
ALL: Out of love and duty,
faithful women brought perfume and ointment
to a garden tomb.
Intending to preserve the dead,
they found new life, instead.
Now, out of love and duty,
we bring our gifts.
May they bring life to us and to others. Amen.
We stand and sing while the Offering is brought to the front:
O Jesus, risen now to bless,
do thou thyself our hearts possess.
Sing praises, hallelujah!
So we shall give you all our days
the willing tribute of our praise!
Sing praises, hallelujah! Sing praises, hallelujah! Hallelujah!
A Reading from the Prophets Isaiah 65.16b-25
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The former troubles are to be forgotten,
and they will be hidden from my eyes.
For I am about to create
new heavens and a new earth!
The things of the past
will not be remembered or come to mind!
Be glad and rejoice forever and ever in what I create,
because I now create Jerusalem to be a joy
and its people to be a delight!
I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and delight in my people;
no more shall the sound of weeping be heard in it
or the cry of distress.
No longer will there be in it an infant who lives but a few days,
or old people who do not live out their days.
Gospel Reading Luke 24.1-12
On the first day of the week, at the first sign of dawn, the women came to the tomb bring-
ing the spices they had prepared. They found the stone rolled back from the tomb; but
when they entered the tomb, they didnt find the body of Jesus. While they were still at a
loss over what to think of this, two figures in dazzling garments stood beside them. Terri-
fied, the women bowed to the ground. The two said to them, Why do you search for the
Living One among the dead? Jesus is not here; Christ has risen. Remember what Jesus
said to you while still in Galilee that the Chosen One must be delivered into the hands
of sinners and be crucified, and on the third day would rise again. With this reminder,
the words of Jesus came back to them. When they had returned from the tomb, they told
all these things to the eleven and the others. The women were Mary of Magdala, Joanna,
and Mary the mother of James. The other women with them also told the apostles, but the
story seemed like nonsense and they refused to believe them. Peter, however, got up and
ran to the tomb. He stooped down, but he could see nothing but the wrappings. So he
went away, full of amazement at what had occurred.
Ministry of Music: Glory to God G. F. Handel
Sermon:
Hymn: The Risen Christ Red Hymnbook 168
ONE: For the darkness of waiting
of not knowing what is to come
of staying ready and quiet and attentive,
ALL: we praise you O God
for the darkness and the light
are both alike to you.
ONE: For the darkness of staying silent
for the terror of having nothing to say
and for the greater terror
of needing to say nothing,
ALL: we praise you O God
for the darkness and the light
are both alike to you.
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They die as mere youths
who reach but a hundred years,
and those who fall short of a hundred
will be thought accursed.
At last they will live in the houses they build,
and eat the fruit of the vineyard they plant.
They will not build for another to inhabit;
they will not plant for another to eat.
For the days of my people
will be like the days of a tree,
and my chosen ones will enjoy t
he fruit of their labors.
They will not labor in vain
or bear children doomed to die;
for they and their descendants
are a people blessed by God.
Even before they call upon me, I will answer;
and while they speak, I will hear.
The wolf and the lamb will feed side by side;
the lion will eat straw like an ox.
Serpents will be content to crawl on the ground;
they will not injure or destroy in all my Holy mountain,
says YHWH.
Psalm of Response Psalm 118.1-2, 14-24
We remain seated:
ONE: I thank you, YHWH (LORD), for your goodness!
Your love is everlasting!
Let Israel say it:
ALL:
ONE: God is my strength and my song;
God has become my salvation!
ALL: Raise shouts of joy
and victory in the tents of the upright:
ONE: YHWHs (the LORDS) right hand is doing mighty acts!
YHWHs (the LORDS) right hand is winning;
ALL: ORD S) right hand is doing mighty acts!
ONE: No, I will not die
I will live to proclaim the deeds of YHWH (the LORD);
ALL: though YHWH (the L ORD ) has disciplined me often,
I am not abandoned to Death.
ONE: Open the gates of justice for me,
let me come in and thank you, YHWH (LORD)!
ALL: This is the gate of YHWH (the L ORD ),
and only the upright can enter!
ONE: Thank you for hearing me,
for saving me.
ALL: It was the stone which the builders rejected
that became the keystone;
ONE: this is YHWHs (the LORDS) doing, and it is wonderful to see.
ALL: This is the day YHWH (the L ORD ) has made
let us celebrate with joy!
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