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THE SERVICE OF HOLY COMMUNION THE SERVICE OF THE THIRD SUNDAY OF EASTER HOApril 18,LY 2021 COMMUNION The gospel for the third Sunday of Easter is always one in which the risen Christ shares food with the disciples, meals that are the Easter template for the meal we share each Sunday. In today’s gospel, Jesus both shares the disciples’ food and shows them the meaning of his suffering, death, and resurrection through the scriptures, the two main elements of our Sunday worship. + 1 + WELCOME! A Special Note: Worship Values & COVID-19 Protocols Our service is being Worship services at the Chapel will fully comply with all COVID-19 protocols established by Valparaiso livestreamed to YouTube University in dialogue with Chapel staff. Face coverings, social distancing, and a special distribution today. Find the link at of Holy Communion are all part of this. All attending from off campus are subject to check in and Valpo.edu/chapel screening in the narthex (lobby). Visitors will be required to wear a visitor badge. Because we are now being limited to having only 100 worshipers in our building, we will be pre-registering people for worship each week until further notice. A link can be found on our website (valpo.edu/chapel) and through Facebook. Please maintain three chairs vacant between yourself and others in your row who are not part of your household or quarantine pod. Holy Communion Special precautions are being taken with the distribution of Holy Communion. This Service of Word and Sacrament today in the Chapel of the Resurrection is sponsored by Valparaiso University and conducted in accordance with Holy Scripture and the Lutheran Confessions. Lay men and women—students, faculty, and staff—assist the pastors in conducting the worship services and in carrying out the ministry in this community. The Holy Communion is celebrated here in the confidence of receiving from our Lord all that he promises when he gives his body and blood to eat and to drink. With such celebration goes the pastoral concern that all worshipers examine themselves lest they contradict Christ by sin against him and his people. In the Sacrament we are most fully one with Christ and with one another, and in this Meal we are nourished to live in faithfulness to Christ and his Word and in forgiveness and in love toward one another. Because communion at the table of our Lord is such a confession of faith, worshipers who are in doubt or who hold a differing confession of faith and yet desire to receive the Sacrament should first consult with one of the pastors. No one is required to commune. You also have the option to commune in one kind only (receiving either the bread or the wine alone) or to receive a personal blessing at the altar. Rest Rooms Rest rooms are available in the Undercroft, down the spiral staircase off the narthex at the southwest end of the building. Handicap accessible/family bathrooms are located in the Chapel narthex. Offerings The offerings received today fund the programming of the Chapel of the Resurrection’s student ministries. You can scan the QR code (at left) to the link give.valpo.edu. Choose “other” and list “Chapel offering” in the comment box.Those desiring to make an offering by check are asked to make the check payable to “Valparaiso University” and include “Chapel Offering” in the memo line. Cover Art Reconciliation -- A Space Where Mercy and Forgiveness Meet is a mural at the Sermon on the Mount Church in I’billin, Israel. The church is on the campus of Mar Elias Educational Institutions, a Christian school made up of students and teachers who are Christian, Muslim, Jewish, and Druze. The church’s communion altar was donated by a Muslim man! Pastoral Staff Rev. Katherine Museus Dabay Rev. James A. Wetzstein University Pastor University Pastor 219 464-6453 or 608-201-6418 (cell) 219 464-6794 or 219 405-0630 (cell) Director of Chapel Music, University Organist Dr. Sunghee Kim, Assistant Professor of Music, Frederick J. Kruse Organ Fellow 219 464-6796 + 2 + The Third Sunday of Easter The Service of Holy Communion April 18, 2021 ~ 10 a.m. As part of our precautions because of Once you are seated, please maintain three chairs vacant between yourself and COVID-19, the offering will be received at the others in your row who are not part of your household or quarantine pod. door or as you leave from communion. There PRELUDE Sheep May Safely Graze -J.S. Bach is also the option of giving securely online, Handbells: Prelude from Second Suite for Handbells -Michael Helman using the QR code on page 2. ANNOUNCEMENTS gathering All stand as able. THANKSGIVING FOR BAPTISM All may make the sign of the cross, the sign marked at baptism, as the presiding minister begins. P Alleluia! Christ is risen! C Christ is risen indeed. Alleluia! P Refreshed by the resurrection life we share in Christ, let us give thanks for the gift of baptism. Water is poured into the font as the presiding minister gives thanks. P We thank you, risen Christ, for these waters where you make us new, leading us from death to life, from tears to joy … As many of you as were To you be given all praise, baptized into Christ with the Holy Spirit, have clothed yourselves in the glory of God, with Christ. now and forever. -Galatians 3:27 C Amen. All turn to face the cross as it passes. PROCESSIONAL HYMN “Christ is Alive! Let Christians Sing” ELW 389 St. 1 & 5 Sung by the cantors only. Please do not sing along. You are invited to meditate on these words: Christ is alive! Let Christians sing. The cross stands empty to the sky. Let streets and homes with praises ring. Love, drowned in death, shall never die. Christ is alive, and comes to bring good news to this and every age, till earth and sky and ocean ring with joy, with justice, love, and praise. Text: Brian A. Wren, b. 1936 Text © 1975, rev. 1995 Hope Publishing Company, Carol Stream, IL 60188. All rights reserved. Used by permission. Reprinted under OneLicense.net A-702845. + 3 + P Alleluia! Christ is risen! C Christ is risen indeed. Alleluia! GLORY TO GOD (Gloria a Dios) from “All Creation Sings” Sung by the cantors. SPANISH ENGLISH Gloria a Dios, gloria a Dios, Glory to God, glory to God, gloria a Dios en los cielos. glory in the highest. A Dios la gloria por siempre Glory to God, glory to God, A Dios la gloria por siempre glory in the highest. Aleluya, Amén Alleluia! Amen! SALUTATION AND PRAYER OF THE DAY P The Lord be with you. C And also with you. P Let us pray. Holy and righteous God, you are the author of life, and you adopt us to be your children. Fill us with your words of life, that we may live as witnesses to the resurrection of your Son, Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. C Amen Sit. WORD FIRST READING Acts 3:12-19 L A reading from Acts: [Peter] addressed the people, “You Israelites, why do you wonder at this, or why do you stare at us, as though by our own power or piety we had made him walk? After healing a man The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our unable to walk, Peter ancestors has glorified his servant Jesus, whom you handed over and rejected in preaches to the people, the presence of Pilate, though he had decided to release him. But you rejected the describing how God’s Holy and Righteous One and asked to have a murderer given to you, and you killed promises to Israel the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses. And have been fulfilled in by faith in his name, his name itself has made this man strong, whom you see and Jesus. Through the know; and the faith that is through Jesus has given him this perfect health in the proclamation of Christ’s presence of all of you. death and resurrection, “And now, friends, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers. God is offering them In this way God fulfilled what he had foretold through all the prophets, that his forgiveness and restoration in Jesus’ Messiah would suffer. Repent therefore, and turn to God so that your sins may be name. wiped out.” L The word of the Lord. C Thanks be to God. + 4 + Stand, as able. GOSPEL ACCLAMATION Sung by the cantors. SPANISH ENGLISH Aleluya, aleluya. Aleluya, aleluya. Alleluia, alleluia. Alleluia, alleluia. ENGLISH Aleluya, aleluya. El Señor resucitó. Alleluia, alleluia. Christ is risen, ris’n indeed. Glory to God, glory to God, glory in the highest. Glory to God, glory to God, HOLY GOSPEL Luke 24:36b-48 glory in the highest. P The Holy Gospel according to Luke. Alleluia! Amen! C Glory to you, O Lord! Jesus himself stood among [the disciples] and said to them, “Peace be with you.” They were startled and terrified, and thought that they were seeing a ghost. He said to them, “Why are you frightened, and why do doubts arise in your hearts? Look In this account of an at my hands and my feet; see that it is I myself. Touch me and see; for a ghost does appearance after his not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.” And when he had said this, he resurrection, Jesus showed them his hands and his feet.