-1- THE TRIDUUM
At this moment in the church year, our common life reaches its climax. The word triduum literally means three days and is used to set the three Holy Days of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday apart from the rest of Holy Week.
The Triduum begins on Thursday evening with the Maundy Thursday liturgy, where we commemorate the institution of the Lord’s Supper and remember Christ’s example of love through the humble act of foot washing. At the conclusion of that liturgy, the altar is stripped and the church darkened. The church, strengthened one last time by the Eucharistic feast, now enters into the painful darkness of God crucified on Good Friday. On Holy Saturday, we gather first as if at a burial, facing the dreadful void following Jesus’ death. Then, as dusk falls, we gather outside the church just as the women gathered at the tomb. In hope, the Church lights new fire which sparks a new Paschal candle and, lest we have forgotten the story of our salvation over the darkness of these few days, we tell it to one another once more. Christ passes over from death into life, destroying death by death, tearing the veil of our sin and suffering and inviting us into the joy of the resurrection.
The liturgies of the Triduum are actually one service: after the opening greeting of the Maundy Thursday liturgy, there is no closing blessing until the Great Vigil and the first Eucharist of Easter. As such, this bulletin will guide you through these next three days. Place it in the designated place near the back of the church at the end of each liturgy so that it can be reused for the next portion of the Triduum. After Easter Vigil, we invite you to take your bulletin with you to remember these three sacred days.
Table of Contents Maundy Thursday ...... 2 7:00 p.m. Service and Stripping of the Altar ...... 3 Good Friday ...... 11 12:00 Noon Service ...... 12 7:00 p.m. Service of Silence, Lamentation, and Music ...... 16 Holy Saturday ...... 20 The Great Vigil of Easter ...... 21 7:00 p.m. Service for The Great Vigil of Easter ...... 22
-1- MAUNDY THURSDAY
That last night at supper lying mid the twelve, his chosen band, Jesus, with the Law complying, Keeps the feast its rites demand; then, more precious food supplying, gives himself with his own hand.
Therefore we before him bending, this great sacrament revere; types and shadows have their ending, for the newer rite is here; faith, our outward sense befriending, makes the inward vision clear.
It is believed that the term Maundy is derived from the Latin for Jesus’ new command to love one another (mandatum novum), or possibly the verb to wash (mundo). This is the day we follow the example of Jesus by humbly serving one another in the symbolic foot washing.
This is also the day we remember the institution of the Lord’s Supper. When Jesus made his last journey to Jerusalem, he did so for the express purpose of observing the Feast of the Passover with his disciples. We eat a simple evening meal together to remind us of the significance of the Passover to Jesus and why we know him to be “our Passover” who is “sacrificed for us.” At the Last Supper, Jesus broke bread and shared wine with his disciples. He told them that the bread was his body and the wine was his blood. He urged his disciples that when they eat and drank these things to “do this in remembrance of me.” The Eucharist on Maundy Thursday is a special commemoration of that Passover meal with Jesus and the disciples. It is followed by the traditional stripping of the altar, during which all movable hangings and ornaments are removed to the sacristy. As the altar is stripped we begin to walk with Christ in his Passion, seeing all the signs of God’s presence which had filled our church slowly taken away. At the end, the church is bare, God seems absent, and we are left to walk alone with Christ the rest of the way to the cross. Therein, however, we find Christ’s presence an inescapable comfort.
-2-- MAUNDY THURSDAY 7:00 P.M., MARCH 28, 2013 Please silence all cell phones and pagers. We invite you to put on a name tag, which can be found in your pew rack.
The People stand as the choir processes.
THE LITURGY OF THE WORD
Hymn 577 God is love Ubi caritas (Murray)
Celebrant Bless the Lord who forgives all our sins. People His mercy endures forever. Celebrant Almighty God, to you all hearts are open, all desires known and from you no secrets are hid: 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 Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Trisagion S102 (sung three times) Archangelsky
The Collect of the Day Celebrant The Lord be with you. People And also with you. Celebrant Let us pray. Almighty Father, whose dear Son, on the night before he suffered, instituted the Sacrament of his Body and Blood: Mercifully grant that we may receive it thankfully in remembrance of Jesus Christ our Lord, who in these holy mysteries gives us a pledge of eternal life; and who now lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
The People are seated.
The First Lesson Exodus 12:1–14 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt: This month shall mark for you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year for you. Tell the whole congregation of Israel that on the tenth of this month they are to take a lamb for each family, a lamb for each household. If a household is too small for a whole lamb, it shall join its closest neighbor in obtaining one; the lamb shall be divided in proportion to the number of people who eat of it. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a year-old male; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats. You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; then the whole assembled congregation of Israel shall slaughter it at
-3-- twilight. They shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. They shall eat the lamb that same night; they shall eat it roasted over the fire with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted over the fire, with its head, legs, and inner organs. You shall let none of it remain until the morning; anything that remains until the morning you shall burn. This is how you shall eat it: your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it hurriedly. It is the passover of the LORD. For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike down every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both human beings and animals; on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the LORD. The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you live: when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague shall destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt. This day shall be a day of remembrance for you. You shall celebrate it as a festival to the LORD; throughout your generations you shall observe it as a perpetual ordinance. Reader The Word of the Lord. People Thanks be to God.
Psalm 78:14–15, 17–19, 23–25 Peter R. Hallock
Choir He led them with a cloud by day, * and all the night through with a glow of fire. He split the hard rocks in the wilderness * and gave them drink as from the great deep. All Repeat the antiphon. Choir But they went on sinning against him, * rebelling in the desert against the Most High. They tested God in their hearts, * demanding food for their craving. All Repeat the antiphon. Choir They railed against God and said, * “Can God set a table in the wilderness?” So he commanded the clouds above * and opened the doors of heaven. All Repeat the antiphon. Choir He rained down manna upon them to eat * and gave them grain from heaven. So mortals ate the bread of angels; * he provided for them food enough. All Repeat the antiphon. © Ionian Arts, Inc.
The Second Lesson 1 Corinthians 11:23–26 For I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took a loaf of bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “This is my body that is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way he took the cup also, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes. Reader The Word of the Lord. People Thanks be to God.
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Hymn 581 Where charity and love prevail Cheshire
The Gospel Luke 22:14-30 Celebrant The Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Luke. People Glory to you, Lord Christ. When the hour came, Jesus took his place at the table, and the apostles with him. He said to them, “I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer; for I tell you, I will not eat it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.” Then he took a cup, and after giving thanks he said, “Take this and divide it among yourselves; for I tell you that from now on I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.” Then he took a loaf of bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” And he did the same with the cup after supper, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood. But see, the one who betrays me is with me, and his hand is on the table. For the Son of Man is going as it has been determined, but woe to that one by whom he is betrayed!” Then they began to ask one another, which one of them it could be who would do this. A dispute also arose among them as to which one of them was to be regarded as the greatest. But he said to them, “The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them; and those in authority over them are called benefactors. But not so with you; rather the greatest among you must become like the youngest, and the leader like one who serves. For who is greater, the one who is at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one at the table? But I am among you as one who serves. “You are those who have stood by me in my trials; and I confer on you, just as my Father has conferred on me, a kingdom, so that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and you will sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.” Celebrant The Gospel of the Lord. People Praise to you, Lord Christ.
The Sermon The Rev. Ann Gillespie
The Nicene Creed All We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is, seen and unseen. We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, of one Being with the Father. Through him all things were made. For us and for our salvation he came down from heaven: by the power of the Holy Spirit he became incarnate from the Virgin Mary, and was made man. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate; he suffered death and was buried. On the third day he rose again in accordance with the Scriptures; he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end. We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son. With the Father and the Son he is worshiped and glorified. He has spoken through the Prophets. We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church. We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins. We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.
The Prayers of the People Intercessor Let us pray for the Church and for the world, responding, “Hear our prayer.” Grant, Almighty God, that all who confess your Name may be united in your truth, live together in your love, and reveal your glory in the world. Lord, in your mercy, People Hear our prayer. Intercessor Guide the people of this land, and of all the nations, in the ways of justice and peace; that we may honor one another and serve the common good. Lord, in your mercy, People Hear our prayer.
-5-- Intercessor Give us all a reverence for the earth as your own creation, that we may use its resources rightly in the service of others and to your honor and glory. Lord, in your mercy, People Hear our prayer. Intercessor Bless all those whose lives are closely linked with ours, and grant that we may serve Christ in them, and love one another as he loves us. Lord, in your mercy, People Hear our prayer. Intercessor Comfort and heal all those who suffer in body, mind, or spirit; give them courage and hope in their troubles, and bring them the joy of your salvation. Lord, in your mercy, People Hear our prayer. Intercessor We commend to your mercy all who have died, that your will for them may be fulfilled; and we pray that we may share with all your saints in your eternal kingdom. Lord, in your mercy, People Hear our prayer. Intercessor I invite you to pray aloud and bring your petitions to Almighty God on this sacred night. Let your prayer conclude with, “Lord, in your mercy,” to which we will all respond, “Hear our prayer.”
The Celebrant will add a concluding collect.
The Confession Celebrant Let us confess our sins against God and our neighbor. Silence for reflection is kept. People Most merciful God, we confess that we have sinned against you in thought, word, and deed, by what we have done, and by what we have left undone. We have not loved you with our whole heart; we have not loved our neighbors as ourselves. We are truly sorry and we humbly repent. For the sake of your Son Jesus Christ, have mercy on us and forgive us; that we may delight in your will, and walk in your ways, to the glory of your Name. Amen. Celebrant Almighty God have mercy on you, forgive you all your sins through our Lord Jesus Christ, strengthen you in all goodness, and by the power of the Holy Spirit keep you in eternal life. Amen.
The Peace Celebrant The peace of the Lord be always with you. People And also with you.
A Welcome
-6-- THE HOLY COMMUNION
The Celebrant says an offertory sentence.
Offertory Anthem Love bade me welcome, yet my soul drew back, guilty of dust and sin. But quick-ey'd Love, observing me grow slack from my first entrance in, Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning if I lack'd anything.
"A guest," I answer'd, "worthy to be here"; Love said, "You shall be he." "I, the unkind, the ungrateful? ah my dear, I cannot look on thee." Love took my hand and smiling did reply, "Who made the eyes but I?"
"Truth, Lord, but I have marr'd them; let my shame go where it doth deserve." "And know you not," says Love, "who bore the blame?" "My dear, then I will serve." "You must sit down," says Love, "and taste my meat." So I did sit and eat. Text: George Herbert (1593-1633) Music: David Hurd (b. 1950)
The People stand.
Hymn 304 I come with joy to meet my Lord Land of Rest
The Great Thanksgiving Celebrant The Lord be with you. People And also with you. Celebrant Lift up your hearts. People We lift them to the Lord. Celebrant Let us give thanks to the Lord, our God. People It is right to give him thanks and praise. Celebrant It is right, and a good and joyful thing, always and everywhere to give thanks to you, Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, through Jesus Christ our Lord. For our sins he was lifted high upon the cross, that he might draw the whole world to himself; and, by his suffering and death, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who put their trust in him. Therefore we praise you, joining our voices with Angels and Archangels and with all the company of heaven, who for ever sing this hymn to proclaim the glory of your Name:
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Sanctus S124 Hurd
The People stand or kneel.
Celebrant Holy and gracious Father: In your infinite love you made us for yourself; and, when we had fallen into sin and become subject to evil and death, you, in your mercy, sent Jesus Christ, your only and eternal Son, to share our human nature, to live and die as one of us, to reconcile us to you, the God and Father of all. He stretched out his arms upon the cross, and offered himself, in obedience to your will, a perfect sacrifice for the whole world. On the night he was handed over to suffering and death, our Lord Jesus Christ took bread; and when he had given thanks to you, he broke it, and gave it to his disciples, and said, “Take, eat: This is my Body, which is given for you. Do this for the remembrance of me.” After supper he took the cup of wine; and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, and said, “Drink this, all of you: This is my Blood of the new Covenant, which is shed for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins. Whenever you drink it, do this for the remembrance of me.” Therefore we proclaim the mystery of faith: All Christ has died. Christ is risen. Christ will come again. Celebrant We celebrate the memorial of our redemption, O Father, in this sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving. Recalling his death, resurrection, and ascension, we offer you these gifts. Sanctify them by your Holy Spirit to be for your people the Body and Blood of your Son, the holy food and drink of new and unending life with him. Sanctify us also that we may faithfully receive this holy Sacrament, and serve you in unity, constancy, and peace; and at the last day bring us with all your saints into the joy of your eternal kingdom. All this we ask through your Son Jesus Christ. By him, and with him, and in him, in the unity of the Holy Spirit all honor and glory is yours, Almighty Father, now and for ever. AMEN. And now, as our Savior Christ has taught us, we are bold to say, All Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.
The Breaking of the Bread
A period of silence is kept.
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Fraction Anthem S161 Hurd
Celebrant The Gifts of God for the People of God.
Whoever you are and wherever you are in your spiritual journey, all are welcome to the table, either to receive a blessing, or, if you are baptized, communion. Cross your arms over your chest for a blessing; extend your hands for the bread. If you require a gluten-free wafer, please ask the clergy administering the bread. Please follow the directions of the ushers.
Communion Anthem Let us therefore, bowing low, Venerate so great a Sacrament; And let the old Law Give way to the new rite; Let faith afford assistance To the deficiency of the senses. To the Begetter and the Begotten Let there be praise and jubilation, Salvation and honor, And power and blessing; And to the One proceeding from both Let there be equal praise. Amen. Text: Latin, Tantum ergo, St. Thomas Aquinas Music: Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986)
Communion Hymn 329 Now my tongue, the mystery telling Pange lingua
Celebrant Let us pray. All Eternal God, heavenly Father, you have graciously accepted us as living members of your Son our Savior Jesus Christ, and you have fed us with spiritual food in the Sacrament of his Body and Blood. Send us now into the world in peace, and grant us strength and courage to love and serve you with gladness and singleness of heart; through Christ our Lord. Amen.
The People kneel.
Celebrant Almighty God, we pray you graciously to behold this your family, for whom our Lord Jesus Christ was willing to be betrayed, and given into the hands of sinners, and to suffer death upon the cross; who lives and reigns for ever and ever. Amen.
The People remain kneeling in silence.
-9-- The Stripping of the Altar
Psalm 22 Peter Hallock The Antiphon is sung twice at the beginning, first by the choir, then everyone.
Choir My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? And are so far from my cry and from the words of my distress? O my God, I cry in the daytime, but you do not answer; by night as well, but I find no rest. All Repeat the Antiphon. Choir All who see me laugh me to scorn; they curl their lips and wag their heads, saying, “He trusted in the Lord; let him deliver him; let him rescue him, if he delights in him.” All Repeat the Antiphon. Choir I am poured out like water; all my bones are out of joint; my heart within my breast is melting wax. My mouth is dried out like a pot-sherd; my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth; and you have laid me in the dust of the grave. All Repeat the Antiphon. Choir Packs of dogs close me in, and gangs of evildoers circle around me; they pierce my hands and my feet; I can count all my bones. They stare and gloat over me; they divide my garments among them; they cast lots for my clothing. All Repeat the Antiphon. Choir Be not far away, O Lord; you are my strength; hasten to help me. Save me from the sword, my life from the power of the dog. All Repeat the Antiphon. Choir Save me from the lion’s mouth, my wretched body from the horns of wild bulls. I will declare your Name to my brethren; in the midst of the congregation I will praise you. All Repeat the Antiphon. © Ionian Arts, Inc.
The service concludes without a procession as everyone departs in silence. Shortly after the service, we invite you to process with the reserved sacrament to the Chapel, where you may sit and pray as long as you like. People will be coming and going as part of the Prayer Vigil. You may also return tomorrow for the 7:15 a.m. Holy Eucharist in the Chapel. It is our last Eucharist before the Easter Vigil.
These booklets are designed to be reused after each service. Thank you for placing yours in the designated place for recycling.
-10-- GOOD FRIDAY
O come and mourn with me a while; O come ye to the Saviour’s side; O come, together let us mourn: Jesus, our Lord, is crucified!
O love of God, O sin of man! In this dread act your strength is tried! And victory remains with love For He, our Love, is crucified!!
In the Episcopal Church, Good Friday is one of the days in the church calendar set aside for “special acts of discipline and self-denial” (BCP p. 17). Traditionally that has been understood to mean fasting and attendance at church some time during the day or evening.
Jesus’ first followers did not know—although they had been told—that there would be a resurrection. When he was crucified, died on the cross, and was taken down and buried, the disciples and the women who followed Jesus thought that Jesus’ ministry was ended and that their relationship with him was now over. The purpose of this Good Friday service is to allow us to enter into the experience of apparent abandonment by God as Jesus expressed it in his cry from the cross and as some of his followers must surely have felt during the interim between his crucifixion and resurrection. We enter into this time of silence and lamentation as a way of affirming and entering into our own sense of abandonment and despair, which many of us experience from time to time, but which we are not always encouraged, allowed or enabled to voice. And within our shared pain, we discover a Christ who does not merely “fix” it, but who, instead, enters it, shares it, and redeems it. The first liturgy comes from The Book of Common Prayer. The second liturgy is adapted from one in Journey through the Psalms, by Denise Dombkowski Hopkins, pages 154–161.
-11-- GOOD FRIDAY 12:00 NOON, MARCH 29, 2013 Please silence all cell phones and pagers. We invite you to put on a name tag, which can be found in your pew rack.
The procession is in silence.
Presider Blessed be our God. People For ever and ever. Amen. Presider Let us pray. Almighty God, we pray you graciously to behold this your family, for whom our Lord Jesus Christ was willing to be betrayed, and given into the hands of sinners, and to suffer death upon the cross; who now lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
The People stand.
Hymn 167 There is a green hill far away Horsley
The People are seated.
The Passion John 18:1–19:42 Reader The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John. After Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples across the Kidron valley to a place where there was a garden, which he and his disciples entered. Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, because Jesus often met there with his disciples. So Judas brought a detachment of soldiers together with police from the chief priests and the Pharisees, and they came there with lanterns and torches and weapons. Then Jesus, knowing all that was to happen to him, came forward and asked them, “Whom are you looking for?” They answered, “Jesus of Nazareth.” Jesus replied, “I am he.” Judas, who betrayed him, was standing with them. When Jesus said to them, “I am he,” they stepped back and fell to the ground. Again he asked them, “Whom are you looking for?” And they said, “Jesus of Nazareth.” Jesus answered, “I told you that I am he. So if you are looking for me, let these men go.” This was to fulfill the word that he had spoken, “I did not lose a single one of those whom you gave me.” Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it, struck the high priest’s slave, and cut off his right ear. The slave’s name was Malchus. Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword back into its sheath. Am I not to drink the cup that the Father has given me?”
So the soldiers, their officer, and the Jewish police arrested Jesus and bound him. First they took him to Annas, who was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, the high priest that year. Caiaphas was the one who had advised the Jews that it was better to have one person die for the people.
Simon Peter and another disciple followed Jesus. Since that disciple was known to the high priest, he went with Jesus into the courtyard of the high priest, but Peter was standing outside at the gate. So the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out, spoke to the woman who guarded the gate, and brought Peter in. The woman said to Peter, “You are not also one of this man’s disciples, are you?” He said, “I am not.” Now the slaves and the police had made a charcoal fire because it was cold, and they were standing around it and warming themselves. Peter also was standing with them and warming himself.
Then the high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching. Jesus answered, “I have spoken openly to the world; I have always taught in synagogues and in the temple, where all the Jews come together. I have said nothing in secret. Why do you ask me? Ask those who heard what I said to them; they know what I said.” When he had said this, one of the police standing nearby struck -12-- Jesus on the face, saying, “Is that how you answer the high priest?” Jesus answered, “If I have spoken wrongly, testify to the wrong. But if I have spoken rightly, why do you strike me?” Then Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas the high priest.
Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They asked him, “You are not also one of his disciples, are you?” He denied it and said, “I am not.” One of the slaves of the high priest, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, asked, “Did I not see you in the garden with him?” Again Peter denied it, and at that moment the cock crowed.
Then they took Jesus from Caiaphas to Pilate’s headquarters. It was early in the morning. They themselves did not enter the headquarters, so as to avoid ritual defilement and to be able to eat the Passover. So Pilate went out to them and said, “What accusation do you bring against this man?” They answered, “If this man were not a criminal, we would not have handed him over to you.” Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and judge him according to your law.” The Jews replied, “We are not permitted to put anyone to death.” (This was to fulfill what Jesus had said when he indicated the kind of death he was to die.)
Then Pilate entered the headquarters again, summoned Jesus, and asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” Jesus answered, “Do you ask this on your own, or did others tell you about me?” Pilate replied, “I am not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests have handed you over to me. What have you done?” Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not from this world. If my kingdom were from this world, my followers would be fighting to keep me from being handed over to the Jews. But as it is, my kingdom is not from here.” Pilate asked him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.” Pilate asked him, “What is truth?”
After he had said this, he went out to the Jews again and told them, “I find no case against him. But you have a custom that I release someone for you at the Passover. Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?” They shouted in reply, “Not this man, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a bandit.
Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. And the soldiers wove a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and they dressed him in a purple robe. They kept coming up to him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and striking him on the face. Pilate went out again and said to them, “Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no case against him.” So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Here is the man!” When the chief priests and the police saw him, they shouted, “Crucify him! Crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and crucify him; I find no case against him.” The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and according to that law he ought to die because he has claimed to be the Son of God.”
Now when Pilate heard this, he was more afraid than ever. He entered his headquarters again and asked Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer. Pilate therefore said to him, “Do you refuse to speak to me? Do you not know that I have power to release you, and power to crucify you?” Jesus answered him, “You would have no power over me unless it had been given you from above; therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin.” From then on Pilate tried to release him, but the Jews cried out, “If you release this man, you are no friend of the emperor. Everyone who claims to be a king sets himself against the emperor.”
When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus outside and sat on the judge’s bench at a place called The Stone Pavement, or in Hebrew Gabbatha. Now it was the day of Preparation for the Passover; and it was about noon. He said to the Jews, “Here is your King!” They cried out, “Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!” Pilate asked them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but the emperor.” Then he handed him over to them to be crucified.
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The People stand.
Hymn 170 To mock your reign The Third Tune
The People remain standing.
Reader So they took Jesus; and carrying the cross by himself, he went out to what is called The Place of the Skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha. There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, with Jesus between them. Pilate also had an inscription written and put on the cross. It read, “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.” Many of the Jews read this inscription, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek. Then the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but, ‘This man said, I am King of the Jews.’” Pilate answered, “What I have written I have written.” When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and divided them into four parts, one for each soldier. They also took his tunic; now the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from the top. So they said to one another, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to see who will get it.” This was to fulfill what the scripture says, “They divided my clothes among themselves, and for my clothing they cast lots.” And that is what the soldiers did.
Meanwhile, standing near the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing beside her, he said to his mother, “Woman, here is your son.” Then he said to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” And from that hour the disciple took her into his own home.
After this, when Jesus knew that all was now finished, he said (in order to fulfill the scripture), “I am thirsty.” A jar full of sour wine was standing there. So they put a sponge full of the wine on a branch of hyssop and held it to his mouth. When Jesus had received the wine, he said, “It is finished.” Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
Since it was the day of Preparation, the Jews did not want the bodies left on the cross during the sabbath, especially because that sabbath was a day of great solemnity. So they asked Pilate to have the legs of the crucified men broken and the bodies removed. Then the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and of the other who had been crucified with him. But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. Instead, one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once blood and water came out. (He who saw this has testified so that you also may believe. His testimony is true, and he knows that he tells the truth.) These things occurred so that the scripture might be fulfilled, “None of his bones shall be broken.” And again another passage of scripture says, “They will look on the one whom they have pierced.”
After these things, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, though a secret one because of his fear of the Jews, asked Pilate to let him take away the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him permission; so he came and removed his body. Nicodemus, who had at first come to Jesus by night, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, weighing about a hundred pounds. They took the body of Jesus and wrapped it with the spices in linen cloths, according to the burial custom of the Jews. Now there was a garden in the place where he was crucified, and in the garden there was a new tomb in which no one had ever been laid. And so, because it was the Jewish day of Preparation, and the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.
Hymn 168 O sacred head, sore wounded Herzlich tut mich verlangen
The People are seated.
-14-- The Meditation The Rev. Heather VanDeventer Offertory
Today’s collection is offered to the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem for continued ministry and relief.
The People kneel as they are able. Solemn Collects Gracious and merciful God, look with mercy on this your family for which our Lord Jesus Christ was willing to be betrayed into the hands of his adversaries and to suffer death upon the cross; and grant us to rejoice in the benefits of his passion; through him who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God now and forever. Silence. Lord Jesus Christ, as we kneel at the foot of your cross, help us to see and know your love for us, so that we may place at your feet all that we have and are. Lord Jesus Christ, crucified for us, we kneel at the foot of your cross to watch with you. Help us to see the cost of our forgiveness so that we may be made new through your love. Silence. Almighty and everlasting God, by your Spirit the whole body of the Church is governed and sanctified; hear the prayers we offer for all your faithful people, that in the particular ministry to which you have called us, we may serve you in holiness and truth; through Jesus Christ our Savior. Silence. Crucified savior, naked God, you hang disgraced and powerless. Grieving, we dare to hope, as we wait at the cross with your mother and your friend. God of all the world whose Son was born a Jew, have mercy on your ancient people; on all who have not known you or deny the faith of Christ crucified. Fetch us home to your fold so that we become one flock under one shepherd, Jesus Christ our Lord. Silence. Merciful God, creator of all the peoples of the earth and lover of every soul; have compassion on all who do not know you, let your gospel be preached with grace and power to those who have not heard it, turn the hearts of those who oppose it, and bring home to your fold all who have gone astray; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Silence. The People remain kneeling. Hymn 172 Were you there when they crucified my Lord? Were you there? Presider And now, as our Savior Christ has taught us, we are bold to say, All Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen. Presider Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the living God, we pray you to set your passion, cross, and death between your judgment and our souls, now and in the hour of our death. Give mercy and grace to the living; pardon and rest to the dead; to your holy Church peace and concord; and to us sinners everlasting life and glory; for with the Father and the Holy Spirit you live and reign, one God, now and for ever. Amen. The People are invited to remain and pray or leave in silence.
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-15-- GOOD FRIDAY: A SERVICE OF SILENCE, LAMENTATION, AND MUSIC 7:00 P.M., MARCH 29, 2013 Please silence all cell phones and pagers. We invite you to put on a name tag, which can be found in your pew rack.
Please take a moment to write a prayer of lamentation on the card provided. The People stand as the clergy process in silence.
Anthem O vos omnes O ye people that are passing by and see me, behold and see and consider if there can be any sorrow as mine? O ye people, is it nothing to you? Text: Latin, Lamentations 1:12 Music: Pablo Casals (1876-1973)
Presider My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Litany of Complaint Presider O God, where are you? People We sit at dusk, longing for your presence. Presider We have heard of your love. Many of us have known your love. People But tonight your love seems far away. Presider We have heard of your Spirit. We have experienced your Spirit’s warmth and energy and light. People But tonight we wonder if we only dreamed of your presence and your power. Presider We have stood before your Word and listened to your truth for our lives. But now all is silence, and there is no word from God.
Two or three minutes of silence. Handwritten prayers are collected during the hymn.
Hymn 158 Ah, Holy Jesus Herzliebster Jesu
The People are seated.
The Prayers of the People The response to each prayer offering will echo the lament of Psalm 22, “My God, My God, why have you forsaken us?”
Concluding Collect Presider Lord, you are punctured, no longer divided between inside and out, knowing in your flesh the sharp violence that kills what it fears: take us through the narrow door from which an endless river flows into a new body—wounded but unafraid; through Jesus Christ, the passion of God. Amen.
Anthem Tenebrae factae sunt Darkness covered the earth when Jesus was crucified, and about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice: “My God, why hast thou forsaken me?” And, with his head inclined, he gave up his spirit. Jesus, crying out again with a loud voice, said, “Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit.” Text: Latin, Isaiah 60:2, Mark 27:45-46, Luke 23:46 Music: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594)
-16-- The Lesson Jeremiah 20:14–18, 31:15 Cursed be the day on which I was born! The day when my mother bore me, let it not be blessed! Cursed be the man who brought the news to my father, saying, ‘A child is born to you, a son’, making him very glad. Let that man be like the cities that the Lord overthrew without pity; let him hear a cry in the morning and an alarm at noon, because he did not kill me in the womb; so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb for ever great. Why did I come forth from the womb to see toil and sorrow, and spend my days in shame? Thus says the Lord: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping. Rachel is weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more. Reader The Word of the Lord. People Thanks be to God. Meditation The Rev. Pierce W. Klemmt A Welcome
Today’s collection is offered to the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem for continued ministry and relief.
Offertory Anthem How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people: how is she become as a widow! She that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces: how is she become tributary! She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears on her cheeks: among all her lovers, she hath none to comfort her. The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly: all her gates are desolate, and she herself is in bitterness. The Lord hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy. All they that go by clap their hands at her: they hiss, and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem saying, “Is this the city that men called the perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth?” Jerusalem, Jerusalem, return unto the Lord thy God, For these things I weep: mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water. From on high hath the Lord sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day. My flesh and my skin hath he made old: he hath broken my bones. He hath builded against me; and compassed me with gall and travail. He hath made me to dwell in dark places: as those that have been long dead. I am become a derision to all my people: and their song all the day. Let him give his cheek to him that smiteth him: let him be filled full with reproach. Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by: behold and see if there by any sorrow like unto my sorrow. Remember mine affliction and my misery: the worm-wood and the gall. Jerusalem, Jerusalem, return unto the Lord thy God. Remember O Lord, what is come upon us: behold and see our reproach. The joy of our heart is ceased: our dance is turned into mourning. The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, for we have sinned. For this our heart is faint: for these things our eyes are dim. Let us search and try our ways: and turn again unto the Lord. Turn thou unto thee O Lord, and we shall be turned: renew our days as of old. It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed: because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. The Lord is my portion, saith my soul: therefore will I hope in him. O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul: thou hast redeemed my life. Jerusalem, Jerusalem, return unto the Lord thy God. Text: Lamentations of Jeremiah, arr. The Very Rev. E.M. Milner-White Music: Edward C. Bairstow (1874-1946)
This anthem was given by Jane Gilchrist in honor of our fellow Christians in the Holy Land.
-17-- Witnesses Presider Listen to the voices of Holy Scriptures. Listen to the cries of abandonment and distress. Listen, and hear the sounds of your own tears, your own grief.
Sarah, Benjamin, John, Johanna
Psalm 22 Peter Hallock The Antiphon is sung twice at the beginning, first by the choir, then everyone.
Choir My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? And are so far from my cry and from the words of my distress? O my God, I cry in the daytime, but you do not answer; by night as well, but I find no rest. All Repeat the Antiphon. Choir All who see me laugh me to scorn; they curl their lips and wag their heads, saying, “He trusted in the Lord; let him deliver him; let him rescue him, if he delights in him.” All Repeat the Antiphon. Choir I am poured out like water; all my bones are out of joint; my heart within my breast is melting wax. My mouth is dried out like a pot-sherd; my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth; and you have laid me in the dust of the grave. All Repeat the Antiphon. Choir Packs of dogs close me in, and gangs of evildoers circle around me; they pierce my hands and my feet; I can count all my bones. They stare and gloat over me; they divide my garments among them; they cast lots for my clothing. All Repeat the Antiphon. Choir Be not far away, O Lord; you are my strength; hasten to help me. Save me from the sword, my life from the power of the dog. All Repeat the Antiphon. Choir Save me from the lion’s mouth, my wretched body from the horns of wild bulls. I will declare your Name to my brethren; in the midst of the congregation will praise you. All Repeat the Antiphon. © Ionian Arts, Inc.
An Invitation to Silent Reflection Presider If we cannot be honest here, where can we be honest? If we cannot be honest before God, is it worth being honest anywhere? If we cannot bring our pain to this holy place, where can we take our pain?
Two to three minutes of silence.
-18-- Anthem There is a green hill far away, Without a city wall, Where the dear Lord was crucified Who died to save us all.
We may not know, we cannot tell, What pains he had to bear But we believe it was for us He hung and suffer’d there.
He died that we might be forgiv’n, He died to make us good; That we might go at last to heav’n Sav’d by his precious blood.
There was no other good enough To pay the price of sin; He only could unlock the gate of heav’n, And let us in.
O dearly, dearly has he lov’d, And we must love him too, And trust in his redeeming blood, And try his works to do. Text: Mrs. C.F. Alexander Music: Herbert Sumsion (1899-1995)
The People are seated.
The Sending My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? That is how we began our time of worship together this evening. Old Testament scholar Walter Brueggemann has said that this haunting, plaintive, terrible cry is in its essence “an act of hope, knowing that full communion is the measure of being a finished self in the presence of God.” If we can only be finished selves in the presence of God, perhaps living for a little while with the sense of how very unfinished, how very needy, we are, we will draw ever closer to the mysterious absence we have invoked tonight. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? We have lingered over this cry this evening. We have heard its echo in the pages of scripture and music. We have heard its echo in our lives and in our own world. We have tried to enter into the despair and loneliness of those who heard the One they thought was their Master and Savior cry out with those words as he took his final breath. As you leave in the dark and silence this evening, may that cry echo in your heart and may you hear in that cry the voice of hope. Go in peace to pray and meditate on this fearful and holy night.
The People depart in silence.
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-19-- Holy Saturday
O worthy and eternal Judge, do not let the pains of death turn us away from you at our last hour.
This service occurs at 10:00 a.m. in the Chapel.
On Holy Saturday, the Liturgy of the Day is brief and powerful. Its burial anthem reminds us of the grief and profound loss Jesus’ disciples must have felt. But this death stands out. We commemorate the time between Jesus’ burial and resurrection because during that time, he mysteriously and miraculously conquered death and constructed a pathway for us to follow him into everlasting life. What important and joyful work, then, lies for us when we lie in our own literal and figurative tombs?
-20-- The Great Vigil of Easter
Let none fear death, for the death of the Savior has set us free. Christ has risen and the demons have fallen. Christ has risen and the angels rejoice!
The Great Vigil of Easter is the most joyous and beautiful liturgy of the Church year. This most ancient of holy days is rich in symbolism, saturated with the word of God, and is, in fact, the principal celebration of the resurrection of our Lord. Throughout the ages, it has been in this service that countless saints have proclaimed, “Alleluia, Christ is risen!” Indeed, when Easter Vigil is not celebrated, there is a significant loss in the Christian’s subsequent Easter worship. If we are to “die with Christ” in baptism, then it is unthinkable that we should not experience the total darkness of the tomb, in order that the splendid light of the resurrection might be all the more glorious. The climax of the Christian year, the Great Vigil of Easter is a service of transition, bridging the time between Lent and Easter, Passion and Resurrection, great sorrow and resounding joy. The Vigil allows us, like Mary Magdalene, to visit the dark tomb only to find it empty, the light of the world having risen from the dead. It is a lengthy and elaborate service, rich with scripture, music and ceremony.
The Vigil begins in total darkness, like the darkness of the tomb. The Paschal candle is lighted from the New Fire and carried into the darkened church as The Exsultet, the oldest distinctively Christian melody and an expansive hymn of praise, is sung. The readings from scripture chronicle the history of humankind’s relationship with God, from the creation and the fall to Israel’s deliverance and God’s renewed covenant with his children. These lessons are shortened versions of the final instruction given to the early Church’s catechumen, or candidates for baptism. Following these lessons, the celebrant says the Great Alleluia. The church is flooded with light, the tomb is empty, death is conquered! The veils of mourning are lifted, bells ring, the organ blasts out its mighty fanfare, and the people proclaim, “Alleluia, the Lord is risen, indeed.” Alleluia! Alleluia! Christ is risen and we are there to celebrate His triumph over the grave. In an explosion of joy, we sing alleluias for the first time since Shrove Tuesday, rejoicing in the promise of life in Christ and celebrating the change of the course of creation from death to life. Following the Gospel and sermon is the Renewal of Baptismal Vows. Afterwards, the Celebrant blesses the congregation with water from the font (the Asperges) as a reminder of our own baptism into Christ’s Passion and Resurrection.
-21-- THE GREAT VIGIL OF EASTER 7:00 P.M., MARCH 30, 2013 Please gather in the churchyard as we kindle the new fire. Please turn off all cell phones and pagers. As the liturgy begins in darkness, we invite you simply to listen to the prayers and readings and to join in the refrains as you feel led.
THE LIGHTING OF THE PASCHAL CANDLE
Celebrant Dear friends in Christ: On this most holy night, in which our Lord Jesus passed over from death to life, the Church invites her members, dispersed throughout the world, to gather in vigil and prayer. For this is the Passover of the Lord, in which, by hearing his Word and celebrating his Sacraments, we share in his victory over death.
A Prayer Over the New Fire (said in the churchyard) Celebrant Let us pray. O God, through your Son you have bestowed upon your people the brightness of your light: Sanctify this new fire, and grant that in this Paschal feast we may so burn with heavenly desires, that with pure minds we may attain to the festival of everlasting light; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
The Procession
The People follow the crucifer and thurifer into the church. Once inside, the clergy enter with the Paschal candle.
The Exsultet Rejoice now, heavenly hosts and choirs of angels, and let your trumpets shout Salvation for the victory of our mighty King. Rejoice and sing now, all the round earth, bright with a glorious splendor, for darkness has been vanquished by our eternal King. Rejoice and be glad now, Mother Church, and let your holy courts, in radiant light, resound with the praises of your people. All you who stand near this marvelous and holy flame, pray with me to God the Almighty for the grace to sing the worthy praise of this great light; through Jesus Christ his Son our Lord, who lives and reigns with him, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God,
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It is truly right and good, always and everywhere, with our whole heart and mind and voice, to praise you, the invisible, almighty, and eternal God, and your only-begotten Son, Jesus Christ our Lord; for he is the true Paschal Lamb, who at the feast of the Passover paid for us the debt of Adam’s sin, and by his blood delivered your faithful people. This is the night, when you brought our fathers, the children of Israel, out of bondage in Egypt, and led them through the Red Sea on dry land. This is the night, when all who believe in Christ are delivered from the gloom of sin, and are restored to grace and holiness of life. This is the night, when Christ broke the bonds of death and hell, and rose victorious from the grave. How wonderful and beyond our knowing, O God, is your mercy and loving-kindness to us, that to redeem a slave, you gave a Son. How holy is this night, when wickedness is put to flight, and sin is washed away. It restores innocence to the fallen, and joy to those who mourn. It casts out pride and hatred, and brings peace and concord. How blessed is this night, when earth and heaven are joined and man is reconciled to God. Holy Father, accept our evening sacrifice, the offering of this candle in your honor. May it shine continually to drive away all darkness. May Christ, the Morning Star who knows no setting, find it ever burning—he who gives his light to all creation, and who lives and reigns
The People are seated.
Celebrant Let us hear the record of God’s saving deeds in history, how he saved his people in ages past; and let us pray that our God will bring each of us to the fullness of redemption.
THE LITURGY OF THE WORD
The Flood Genesis 7:1–5, 11–18, 8:6–18, 9:8–13 The LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you alone are righteous before me in this generation. Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals, the male and its mate; and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and its mate; and seven pairs of the birds of the air also, male and female, to keep their kind alive on the face of all the earth. For in seven days I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.” And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him. In the six-hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened. The rain fell on the earth for forty days and forty nights. On the very same day Noah with his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons, entered the ark, they and every wild animal of every kind, and all domestic animals of every kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every bird of every kind—every bird, every winged creature. They went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there was the breath of life. And those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him; and the LORD shut him in. The flood continued for
-23-- forty days on the earth; and the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth. The waters swelled and increased greatly on the earth; and the ark floated on the face of the waters. At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made and sent out the raven; and it went to and fro until the waters were dried up from the earth. Then he sent out the dove from him, to see if the waters had subsided from the face of the ground; but the dove found no place to set its foot, and it returned to him to the ark, for the waters were still on the face of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and took it and brought it into the ark with him. He waited another seven days, and again he sent out the dove from the ark; and the dove came back to him in the evening, and there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf; so Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the earth. Then he waited another seven days, and sent out the dove; and it did not return to him any more. In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and saw that the face of the ground was drying. In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry. Then God said to Noah, “Go out of the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons’ wives with you. Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh—birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth—so that they may abound on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.” So Noah went out with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives. Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him, “As for me, I am establishing my covenant with you and your descendants after you, and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the domestic animals, and every animal of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark. I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.” God said, “This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations: I have set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.”
Psalm 46 Deus noster refugium The Antiphons are sung first by the Cantor, then by the People following each ring of the bells.
God is our refuge and strength, * a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth be moved, * and though the mountains be toppled into the depths of the sea; Though its waters rage and foam, * and though the mountains tremble at its tumult. The LORD of hosts is with us; * the God of Jacob is our stronghold. There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, * the holy habitation of the Most High. God is in the midst of her; she shall not be overthrown; * God shall help her at the break of day. The nations make much ado, and the kingdoms are shaken; * God has spoken, and the earth shall melt away. The LORD of hosts is with us; * the God of Jacob is our stronghold. Come now and look upon the works of the LORD, * what awesome things he has done on earth. It is he who makes war to cease in all the world; * he breaks the bow, and shatters the spear, and burns the shields with fire. “Be still, then, and know that I am God; * I will be exalted among the nations; I will be exalted in the earth.” The LORD of hosts is with us; * the God of Jacob is our stronghold.
The People stand.
-24-- Celebrant Let us pray. A period of silence. Almighty God, you have placed in the skies the sign of your covenant with all living things: Grant that we, who are saved through water and the Spirit, may worthily offer to you our sacrifice of thanksgiving; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
The People are seated.
Israel’s Deliverance at the Red Sea Exodus 14:10–31, 15:20–21 As Pharaoh drew near, the Israelites looked back, and there were the Egyptians advancing on them. In great fear the Israelites cried out to the LORD. They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us, bringing us out of Egypt? Is this not the very thing we told you in Egypt, ‘Let us alone and let us serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.” But Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid, stand firm, and see the deliverance that the LORD will accomplish for you today; for the Egyptians whom you see today you shall never see again. The LORD will fight for you, and you have only to keep still.” Then the LORD said to Moses, “Why do you cry out to me? Tell the Israelites to go forward. But you lift up your staff, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, that the Israelites may go into the sea on dry ground. Then I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will go in after them; and so I will gain glory for myself over Pharaoh and all his army, his chariots, and his chariot drivers. And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have gained glory for myself over Pharaoh, his chariots, and his chariot drivers.” The angel of God who was going before the Israelite army moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from in front of them and took its place behind them. It came between the army of Egypt and the army of Israel. And so the cloud was there with the darkness, and it lit up the night; one did not come near the other all night. Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea. The LORD drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night, and turned the sea into dry land; and the waters were divided. The Israelites went into the sea on dry ground, the waters forming a wall for them on their right and on their left. The Egyptians pursued, and went into the sea after them, all of Pharaoh’s horses, chariots, and chariot drivers. At the morning watch the LORD in the pillar of fire and cloud looked down upon the Egyptian army, and threw the Egyptian army into panic. He clogged their chariot wheels so that they turned with difficulty. The Egyptians said, “Let us flee from the Israelites, for the LORD is fighting for them against Egypt.” Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea, so that the water may come back upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots and chariot drivers.” So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at dawn the sea returned to its normal depth. As the Egyptians fled before it, the LORD tossed the Egyptians into the sea. The waters returned and covered the chariots and the chariot drivers, the entire army of Pharaoh that had followed them into the sea; not one of them remained. But the Israelites walked on dry ground through the sea, the waters forming a wall for them on their right and on their left. Thus the LORD saved Israel that day from the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore. Israel saw the great work that the LORD did against the Egyptians. So the people feared the LORD and believed in the LORD and in his servant Moses. Then the prophet Miriam, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dancing. And Miriam sang to them: “Sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; horse and rider he has thrown into the sea.”
-25-- Canticle 8 The Song of Moses Cantemus Domino
I will sing to the Lord, for he is lofty and uplifted; the horse and its rider he has hurled into the sea. The Lord is my strength and my refuge; the Lord has become my Savior. This is my God and I will praise him, the God of my people and I will exalt him. The Lord is a mighty warrior; Yahweh is his Name. The chariots of Pharaoh and his army has he hurled into the sea; the finest of those who bear armor have been drowned in the Red Sea. The fathomless deep has overwhelmed them; they sank into the depths like a stone. Your right hand, O Lord, is glorious in might; your right hand, O Lord, has overthrown the enemy. Who can be compared with you, O Lord, among the gods? who is like you, glorious in holiness, awesome in renown, and worker of wonders? You stretched forth your right hand; the earth swallowed them up. With your constant love you led the people you redeemed; with your might you brought them in safety to your holy dwelling. You will bring them in and plant them on the mount of your possession, The resting-place you have made for yourself, O Lord, the sanctuary, O Lord, that your hand has established. The Lord shall reign for ever and ever.
The People stand.
Celebrant Let us pray. A period of silence. O God, whose wonderful deeds of old shine forth even to our own day, you once delivered by the power of your mighty arm your chosen people from slavery under Pharaoh, to be a sign for us of the salvation of all nations by the water of Baptism: Grant that all the peoples of the earth may be numbered among the offspring of Abraham, and rejoice in the inheritance of Israel; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
The People are seated.
Salvation Offered Freely to All Isaiah 55:1–11 Ho, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you that have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labour for that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food. Incline your ear, and come to me; listen, so that you may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David. See, I made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander for the peoples. See, you shall call nations that you do not know, and nations that do not know you shall run to you, because of the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you. Seek the LORD while he may be found, call upon him while he is near; let the wicked forsake their way, and the unrighteous their thoughts; let them return to the LORD, that he may have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return there until they have watered the earth, making it
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Psalm 42:1–7 Quemadmodum The Antiphon is sung first by the Cantor, then by the People following each ring of the bells.
As the deer longs for the water-brooks, * so longs my soul for you, O God. My soul is athirst for God, athirst for the living God; * when shall I come to appear before the presence of God? My tears have been my food day and night, * while all day long they say to me, “Where now is your God?” I pour out my soul when I think on these things: * how I went with the multitude and led them into the house of God, With the voice of praise and thanksgiving, * among those who keep holy-day. Why are you so full of heaviness, O my soul? * and why are you so disquieted within me? Put your trust in God; * for I will yet give thanks to him, who is the help of my countenance, and my God.
The People stand.
Celebrant Let us pray. A period of silence. O God, you have created all things by the power of your Word, and you renew the earth by your Spirit: Give now the water of life to those who thirst for you, that they may bring forth abundant fruit in your glorious kingdom; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
The People are seated.
The Valley of Dry Bones Ezekiel 37:1–14 The hand of the LORD came upon me, and he brought me out by the spirit of the LORD and set me down in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. He led me all round them; there were very many lying in the valley, and they were very dry. He said to me, “Mortal, can these bones live?” I answered, “O Lord GOD, you know.” Then he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones, and say to them: O dry bones, hear the word of the LORD. Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones: I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live. I will lay sinews on you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am the LORD.” So I prophesied as I had been commanded; and as I prophesied, suddenly there was a noise, a rattling, and the bones came together, bone to its bone. I looked, and there were sinews on them, and flesh had come upon them, and skin had covered them; but there was no breath in them. Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, mortal, and say to the breath: Thus says the Lord GOD: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.” I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood on their feet, a vast multitude. Then he said to me, “Mortal, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are cut off completely.’ Therefore prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: I am going to open your graves, and bring you up from your graves, O my people; and I will bring you back to the land of Israel. And you shall know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves, and bring you up from your graves, O my people. I will put my spirit within you, and you shall live, and I will place you on your own soil; then you shall know that I, the LORD, have spoken and will act,” says the LORD.
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LORD, hear my prayer, and in your faithfulness heed my supplications; * answer me in your righteousness. Enter not into judgment with your servant, * for in your sight shall no one living be justified. For my enemy has sought my life; he has crushed me to the ground; * he has made me live in dark places like those who are long dead. My spirit faints within me; * my heart within me is desolate. I remember the time past; I muse upon all your deeds; * I consider the works of your hands. I spread out my hands to you; * my soul gasps to you like a thirsty land. O LORD, make haste to answer me; my spirit fails me; * do not hide your face from me or I shall be like those who go down to the Pit. Let me hear of your loving-kindness in the morning, for I put my trust in you; * show me the road that I must walk, for I lift up my soul to you. Deliver me from my enemies, O LORD, * for I flee to you for refuge. Teach me to do what pleases you, for you are my God; * let your good Spirit lead me on level ground. Revive me, O LORD, for your Name’s sake; * for your righteousness’ sake, bring me out of trouble. Of your goodness, destroy my enemies and bring all my foes to naught, * for truly I am your servant.
The People stand.
Celebrant Let us pray. A period of silence. Almighty God, by the Passover of your Son you have brought us out of sin into righteousness and out of death into life: Grant to those who are sealed by your Holy Spirit the will and the power to proclaim you to all the world; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
The People are seated.
HOLY BAPTISM
The Presentation and Examination of the Candidates Celebrant The Candidates for Holy Baptism will now be presented. Sponsors I present N. to receive the Sacrament of Baptism. David Fish and Bethany Kucia Celebrant David and Bethany, do you desire to be baptized? Candidates I do.
Parents & Godparents I present N. to receive the Sacrament of Baptism. Travis Thomas Courtnage, Cael McVicker Howerton, Christopher Vance Hussey, Lila Ruth Jalbert, Isabel Lily Kerelchuk, Evie Rose Kerelchuk, Eloise Saunders Traynham
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The People stand.
Celebrant Will you who witness these vows do all in your power to support these persons in their life in Christ? People We will. Celebrant Let us join with those who are committing themselves to Christ and renew our own baptismal covenant.
The Baptismal Covenant Celebrant Do you believe in God the Father? People I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth. Celebrant Do you believe in Jesus Christ, the Son of God? People 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. Celebrant Do you believe in God the Holy Spirit? People 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. Celebrant Will you continue in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in the prayers? People I will, with God’s help. Celebrant Will you persevere in resisting evil, and, whenever you fall into sin, repent and return to the Lord? People I will, with God’s help. Celebrant Will you proclaim by word and example the Good News of God in Christ? People I will, with God’s help. Celebrant Will you seek and serve Christ in all persons, loving your neighbor as yourself? People I will, with God’s help. Celebrant Will you strive for justice and peace among all people, and respect the dignity of every human being? People I will, with God’s help.
Prayers for the Candidates Celebrant Let us now pray for these persons who are to receive the Sacrament of new birth. Intercessor Deliver them, O Lord, from the way of sin and death. People Lord, hear our prayer. Intercessor Open their hearts to your grace and truth. People Lord, hear our prayer. Intercessor Fill them with your holy and life-giving Spirit. People Lord, hear our prayer. Intercessor Keep them in the faith and communion of your holy Church. People Lord, hear our prayer. Intercessor Teach them to love others in the power of the Spirit.
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Thanksgiving over the Water Celebrant The Lord be with you. People And also with you. Celebrant Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. People It is right to give him thanks and praise. Celebrant We thank you, Almighty God, for the gift of water. Over it the Holy Spirit moved in the beginning of creation. Through it you led the children of Israel out of their bondage in Egypt into the land of promise. In it your Son Jesus received the baptism of John and was anointed by the Holy Spirit as the Messiah, the Christ, to lead us, through his death and resurrection, from the bondage of sin into everlasting life. We thank you, Father, for the water of Baptism. In it we are buried with Christ in his death. By it we share in his resurrection. Through it we are reborn by the Holy Spirit. Therefore in joyful obedience to your Son, we bring into his fellowship those who come to him in faith, baptizing them in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. At the following words, the Celebrant touches the water Now sanctify this water, we pray you, by the power of your Holy Spirit, that those who here are cleansed from sin and born again may continue for ever in the risen life of Jesus Christ our Savior. To him, to you, and to the Holy Spirit, be all honor and glory, now and for ever. Amen.
The People are seated.
The Baptism The Celebrant baptizes the adult candidates and then the children by pouring water upon each one and saying: N., I baptize you in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Then the Priest places a hand on the candidate’s head, marking on the forehead the sign of the cross, saying to each one N., you are sealed by the Holy Spirit in Baptism and marked as Christ’s own for ever. Amen. The Priest lights a candle from the Paschal Candle and presents it to the candidate, saying. N., receive the light of Christ so you may be a light to the world. Amen. Celebrant Let us pray. Heavenly Father, we thank you that by water and the Holy Spirit you have bestowed upon these your servants the forgiveness of sin, and have raised them to the new life of grace. Sustain them, O Lord, in your Holy Spirit. Give them inquiring and discerning hearts, the courage to will and to persevere, a spirit to know and to love you, and the gift of joy and wonder in all your works. Amen.
The People stand.
Celebrant Let us welcome the newly baptized. All We receive you into the household of God. Confess the faith of Christ crucified, proclaim his resurrection, and share with us in his eternal priesthood.
THE EASTER ACCLAMATION
The following is said three times.
Celebrant Alleluia. Christ is Risen. People The Lord is risen indeed. Alleluia.
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Celebrant The Lord be with you. People And also with you. Celebrant Let us pray. O God who made this most holy night to shine with the glory of the Lord’s resurrection: Stir up in your Church that Spirit of adoption which is given to us in Baptism, that we, being renewed both in body and mind, may worship you in sincerity and truth; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.
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The Lesson Romans 6:3–11 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? Therefore we have been buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin. For whoever has died is freed from sin. But if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. The death he died, he died to sin, once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. Reader The Word of the Lord. People Thanks be to God.
Psalm 114 Peter Hallock
Choir When Israel came out of Egypt, * the house of Jacob from a people of strange speech, Judah became God’s sanctuary * and Israel his dominion. All Repeat the Antiphon. Choir The sea beheld it and fled; * Jordan turned and went back. The mountains skipped like rams, * and the little hills like young sheep. All Repeat the Antiphon. Choir What ailed you, O sea, that you fled? * O Jordan, that you turned back? You mountains, that you skipped like rams? * you little hills like young sheep? All Repeat the Antiphon. Choir Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, * at the presence of the God of Jacob, Who turned the hard rock into a pool of water * and flint-stone into a flowing spring. All Repeat the Antiphon. © Ionian Arts, Inc.
The Gospel Luke 24:1-12 Celebrant The Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Luke. People Glory to you, Lord Christ. On the first day of the week, at early dawn, the women who had come with Jesus from Galilee came to the tomb, taking the spices that they had prepared. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they went in, they did not find the body. While they were perplexed about this, suddenly two men in dazzling clothes stood beside them. The women were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, "Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen. Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee, that the Son of Man must be handed over to sinners, and be crucified, and on the third day rise again." Then they remembered his words, and returning from the tomb, they told all this to the eleven and to all the rest. Now it was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them who told this to the apostles. But these words seemed to them an idle tale, and they did not believe them. But Peter got up and ran to the tomb; stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths by themselves; then he went home, amazed at what had happened. Celebrant The Gospel of the Lord. People Praise to you, Lord Christ. -32--
The Sermon The Rev. Ann Gillespie
Hymn 187 Through the red sea brought at last Straf mich nicht
The Peace Celebrant The peace of the Lord be always with you. People And also with you.
An Easter Welcome THE HOLY COMMUNION EASTER LOOSE PLATE OFFERING 2013 The Easter Offering has been designated to benefit the ministries of Outreach and Mission. The Outreach Committee has designated the Child and Family Network Center, Community Lodgings, and New Neighbors, ELL and Family Literacy Program, to receive funds to support youth and early childhood education programs. The Mission Committee has designated their portion of the offering to meet the needs of children living in the Holy Land and at Our Little Roses Home for Girls, San Pedro Sula, Honduras. Please be generous in your support to these areas of God’s work that sustain life and transform futures for children in our neighborhood and across the globe.
The Celebrant says an offertory sentence.
Offertory Anthem Moses sing unto Christ, thy King, His right hand, and his staff’s command Who hath won the victory. Did divide, at his decree, And hath laid low haughty Pharaoh The surging wave, and thereby did save Underneath the deep Red Sea. Us and ours from slavery. Yea, merry, merry, merry may we be, Then merry, merry, merry may we be, As bird upon the berry of the may or cherry tree, As bird upon the berry of the may or cherry tree, While as we stand with harp in hand While as we stand with harp in hand On the shore of the Red, Red Sea. On the shore of the Red, Red Sea. God perforce overthrew the horse, Thou dids’t blow, and entomb our foe Rider, car, and axletree. In the bottom of the sea: They sank as lead, and their men lie dead, And if dry-shod we went o’er by God, Dead as stone; so mote it be! Be ascribed the praise to Thee! Then merry, merry, merry may we be, Then merry, merry, merry may we be, As bird upon the berry of the may or cherry tree, As bird upon the berry of the may or cherry tree, While as we stand with harp in hand While as we stand with harp in hand On the shore of the Red, Red Sea. On the shore of the Red, Red Sea.
English Traditional Carol, Arr. G. H. Woodward
Hymn 207 Jesus Christ is risen today Easter Hymn
The Great Thanksgiving
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Sanctus S128 William Mathias
The People stand or kneel.
Celebrant We give thanks to you, O God, for the goodness and love which you have made known to us in creation; in the calling of Israel to be your people; in your Word spoken through the prophets; and above all in the Word made flesh, Jesus, your Son. For in these last days you sent him to be incarnate from the Virgin Mary, to be the Savior and Redeemer of the world. In him, you have delivered us from evil, and made us worthy to stand before you. In him, you have brought us out of error into truth, out of sin into righteousness, out of death into life. On the night before he died for us, our Lord Jesus Christ took bread; and when he had given thanks to you, he broke it, and gave it to his disciples, and said, "Take, eat: This is my Body, which is given for you. Do this for the remembrance of me." After supper he took the cup of wine; and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, and said, "Drink this, all of you: This is my Blood of the new Covenant, which is shed for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins. Whenever you drink it, do this for the remembrance of me." Therefore, according to his command, O Father, All We remember his death, we proclaim his resurrection, we await his coming in glory; Celebrant And we offer our sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving to you, O Lord of all; presenting to you, from your creation, this bread and this wine. We pray you, gracious God, to send your Holy Spirit upon these gifts that they may be the Sacrament of the Body of Christ and his Blood of the new Covenant. Unite us to your Son in his sacrifice, that we may be acceptable through him, being sanctified by the Holy Spirit. In the fullness of time, put all things in subjection under your Christ, and bring us to that heavenly country where, with all your saints, we may enter the everlasting heritage of your sons and daughters; through Jesus Christ our Lord, the firstborn of all creation, the head of the Church, and the author of our salvation. By him, and with him, and in him, in the unity of the Holy Spirit all honor and glory is yours, Almighty Father,
now and for e------ver. And now, as our Savior Christ has taught us, we are bold to say, All Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.
-34-- The Breaking of the Bread Celebrant Alleluia. Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us; People Therefore let us keep the feast. Alleluia. Celebrant The Gifts of God for the People of God.
Whoever you are and wherever you are in your spiritual journey, all are welcome to the table, either to receive a blessing, or, if you are baptized, communion. Cross your arms over your chest for a blessing; extend your hands for the bread. If you require a gluten-free wafer, please ask the clergy administering the bread. Please follow the directions of the ushers.
Communion Anthem Most glorious Lord of life, that on this day Didst make Thy triumph over death and sin, And having harrowed hell, didst bring away Captivity thence captive, us to win.
This joyous day, dear Lord, with joy begin, And grant that we for whom Thou diddest die, Being with Thy dear blood clean washed from sin, May live forever in felicity.
And that Thy love we weighing worthily, May likewise love Thee for the same again; And for Thy sake, that all like dear didst buy, With love may one another entertain.
So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught. Text: Edmund Spenser (c. 1522-1599) Music: William H. Harris (1883-1973) Communion Hymns 178 Alleluia, alleluia Alleluia No. 1 188 Love’s redeeming work is done Savannah 200 Come, ye faithful, raise the strain Gaudeamus pariter
Celebrant Let us pray. All Eternal God, heavenly Father, you have graciously accepted us as living members of your Son our Savior Jesus Christ, and you have fed us with spiritual food in the Sacrament of his Body and Blood. Send us now into the world in peace, and grant us strength and courage to love and serve you with gladness and singleness of heart; through Christ our Lord. Amen.
The Easter Blessing Celebrant May Almighty God, who has redeemed us and made us his children through the resurrection of his Son our Lord, bestow upon you the riches of his blessing. And the blessing of God Almighty, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, be upon you and remain with you for ever. Amen.
Hymn 210 The day of resurrection Ellacombe
The Dismissal Celebrant Let us go forth in the name of Christ. Alleluia, alleluia. People Thanks be to God. Alleluia, alleluia.
Postlude Toccata from Symphony No. 5 Charles-Marie Widor (1844–1937)
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