CATHEDRAL EUCHARIST EASTER DAY Sunday 4 April 2021 10.00am Welcome to Southwell Minster As you prepare for worship, please be sensitive to the needs of those around you who may wish to pray in silence. Please switch off mobile telephones and do not use photographic, video or recording equipment at any time. A loop system is in operation throughout the Minster. Hearing aids that are equipped to do so should be switched to the ‘T’ position or the loop setting appropriate to your equipment. Large print orders of service are available. Please ask a Churchwarden, Sidesman or Verger for a copy. Please speak to a Verger if you need to use the toilet facilities. We are a Fairtrade cathedral, committed to continuing and increasing our use of fairly traded goods wherever possible. The President of the Eucharist is The Very Revd Nicola Sullivan, Dean of Southwell. The Preacher is the Bishop of Southwell and Nottingham, The Rt Revd Paul Williams. The Deacon is The Revd Dr Richard Frith, Canon Precentor. The Lay Clerks of the Cathedral Choir are directed by Paul Provost, Rector Chori. The organ is played by Jonathan Allsopp, Assistant Director of Music. The setting for the Eucharist is Mass for Three Voices by William Byrd (c.1539-1623). The congregation is invited to join in all texts printed in bold. Face coverings are currently required in places of worship, so please where one inside the Cathedral unless you have a medically recognised reason not to do so. No collection will be taken at this service, but donations as you leave in support of the mission and ministry of the Cathedral are very welcome. Envelopes and cash may be deposited in the donation box, or preferably use the contactless donation station. Alternatively, you can give online at www.southwellminster.org.uk/donate. Please give generously. This service will be livestreamed to the internet, and will be available at www.southwellminster.org/worship-online and on the Minster’s YouTube channel. Livestreaming allows those joining from home to participate in the same act of worship as those in the Cathedral. ii Communion Communion will be received in silence in one kind only (bread); the Church teaches that Holy Communion is received fully in either the consecrated wafer or the wine. Please follow the instructions of Churchwardens to approach the sanctuary. Please make use of the hand sanitiser dispenser provided as you approach. There will be 2- metre spaces marked on the floor of the aisle; please observe these to keep social dis- tance. Please keep your face covering in place until you have received the host in your hand, and replace it after consuming the host. After receiving Communion, please return to your seat via the side aisles. Gluten-free wafers are available. Please speak to a Churchwarden before the service (if possible) to request one. Standing, Sitting and Kneeling Throughout the booklet, you will find various references to posture: - Standing is used for parts of the service where the emphasis is on praising or praying to God together; so we usually stand to sing hymns, and for certain important prayers. - Sitting indicates listening and receiving; so we sit for the first and second readings from the Bible, and for the sermon. - Kneeling is the traditional position for personal prayer. Please speak to one of the Vergers or Sidesmen if you would like a cushion for kneeling. Adopting the same posture is a way of showing that we are worshipping God together, as his people. However, please always feel free to adopt a different posture, especially if standing or kneeling is uncomfortable. Use of Personal Data for NHS Test and Trace Thank you for providing your name and contact details when you registered for or arrived at this service. This measure is in support of the NHS’s Test and Trace pro- gramme. Your personal details will be stored securely for 21 days in compliance with data protection regulations, and will then be securely disposed of. If during that time someone who has been at the service tests positive for Covid-19, you will be contacted by the NHS. iii ORDER OF SERVICE ORGAN PRELUDES Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 625 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Erschienen ist der herrliche Tag, BWV 629 Christ ist erstanden, BWV 627 Before the service, a member of the clergy welcomes the congregation and gives notices. THE GATHERING Please stand at the entry of the altar party INTROIT Choir I am risen and am still with thee, alleluia: thou hast laid thine hand upon me, alleluia: thy knowledge is too wonderful and excellent for me, alleluia, alleluia. Music: RESURREXI Mode iv President In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. 1 GREETING The Lord be with you and also with you. EASTER ACCLAMATION Alleluia. Christ is risen. He is risen indeed. Alleluia. Praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. He has given us new life and hope. He has raised Jesus from the dead. God has claimed us as his own. He has brought us out of darkness. He has made us light to the world. Alleluia. Christ is risen. He is risen indeed. Alleluia. The President introduces the Eucharist. 2 PRAYERS OF PENITENCE Deacon In baptism we died with Christ, so that as Christ was raised from the dead, we might walk in newness of life. Let us receive new life in him as we confess our sins in penitence and faith. Silence is kept. President We have lived by our own strength, and not by the power of your resurrection. In your mercy, forgive us. Lord, hear us and help us. We have lived by the light of our own eyes, as faithless and not believing. In your mercy, forgive us. Lord, hear us and help us. We have lived for this world alone, and doubted our home in heaven. In your mercy, forgive us. Lord, hear us and help us. ABSOLUTION Bishop May the God of love and power forgive you and free you from your sins, heal and strengthen you by his Spirit, and raise you to new life in Christ our Lord. Amen. 3 GLORIA IN EXCELSIS Choir Gloria in excelsis Deo, et in terra Glory to God in the highest, and pax hominibus bonae voluntatis. peace to his people on earth. Laudamus te, benedicimus te, Lord God, heavenly King, adoramus te, glorificamus te, almighty God and Father, we gratias agimus tibi propter worship you, we give you thanks, magnam gloriam tuam. we praise you for your glory. Domine Deus, Rex caelestis, Deus Lord Jesus Christ, only Son of the Pater omnipotens. Domine Fili Father, Lord God, Lamb of God, unigenite, Jesu Christe: Domine you take away the sin of the Deus, Agnus Dei, Filius Patris, qui world: have mercy on us; you are tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis, seated at the right hand of the qui tollis peccata mundi, suscipe Father: receive our prayer. deprecationem nostram; qui sedes ad dexteram Patris, miserere nobis. Quoniam tu solus Sanctus; tu solus For you alone are the Holy One, Dominus; tu solus altissimus, Jesu you alone are the Lord, you alone Christe, cum Sancto Spiritu, in are the Most High, Jesus Christ, gloria Dei Patris. with the Holy Spirit, in the glory Amen. of God the Father. Amen. 4 COLLECT President Let us pray. Silence is kept. Lord of all life and power, who through the mighty resurrection of your Son overcame the old order of sin and death to make all things new in him: grant that we, being dead to sin and alive to you in Jesus Christ, may reign with him in glory; to whom with you and the Holy Spirit be praise and honour, glory and might, now and in all eternity. Amen. Please sit 5 THE LITURGY OF THE WORD FIRST READING read by Roy Blackshaw Isaiah 25: 6-9 On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-matured wines, of rich food filled with marrow, of well-matured wines strained clear. And he will destroy on this mountain the shroud that is cast over all peoples, the sheet that is spread over all nations; he will swallow up death for ever. Then the Lord God will wipe away the tears from all faces, and the disgrace of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the Lord has spoken. It will be said on that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, so that he might save us. This is the Lord for whom we have waited; let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation. This is the Word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. 6 SECOND READING read by David Shannon Acts 10: 34-43 Peter began to speak to those assembled in the house of Cornelius: ‘I truly understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him. You know the message he sent to the people of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ— he is Lord of all. That message spread throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John announced: how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power; how he went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. We are witnesses to all that he did both in Judea and in Jerusalem.