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The Great Litany (Episcopal)

I’ve gotten into the habit of praying the Litany on Fridays. Here’s a sung version from St. Barnabas, Falmouth

July 14, 2009 Posted by celticanglican | Uncategorized | episcopal, falmouth, great litany, st barnabas | No Comments Yet

I’m Back, Sorta

Sorry I haven’t been posting, I’ve had a VERY manic last few months. I’ll be adding a new video category, so please stay tuned

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A Service for Resurrection Day

All collects, the Psalms, and the intercessory prayers are from the 1979 Book of Common Prayer, unless otherwise noted. Bible readings are from the World English Bible. Hymns are public domain. While not intended to be a substitute for regular church attendance, I hope this service will be helpful for this unable to attend services or looking to enrich their personal devotions.

Opening Hymn: Jesus Christ is Risen Today (Music)

Jesus Christ is risen today, Alleluia!
Our triumphant holy day, Alleluia!
Who did once, upon the cross, Alleluia!
Suffer to redeem our loss, Alleluia!

Hymns of praise then let us sing, Alleluia!
Unto Christ, our heavenly King, Alleluia!
Who endured the cross and grave, Alleluia!
Sinners to redeem and save, Alleluia!

But the pains which He endured, Alleluia!
Our salvation hath procured, Alleluia!
Now above the sky He’s king, Alleluia!
Where the angels ever sing, Alleluia!

Sing we to our God above, Alleluia!
Praise eternal as His love, Alleluia!
Praise Him, all you heavenly host, Alleluia!
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Alleluia!

Alleluia! Christ is Risen!

The Lord is risen indeed, alleluia!

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 Christ our Lord. Amen.

Welcome, Happy Morning! (Music)

“Welcome, happy morning!” age to age shall say:
“Hell today is vanquished, Heav’n is won today!”
Lo! the dead is living, God forevermore!
Him, their true Creator, all His works adore!

Refrain

“Welcome, happy morning!”
Age to age shall say.

Earth her joy confesses, clothing her for spring,
All fresh gifts returned with her returning King:
Bloom in every meadow, leaves on every bough,
Speak His sorrow ended, hail His triumph now.

Refrain

Months in due succession, days of lengthening light,
Hours and passing moments praise Thee in their flight.
Brightness of the morning, sky and fields and sea,
Vanquisher of darkness, bring their praise to Thee.

Refrain

Maker and Redeemer, life and health of all,
Thou from heaven beholding human nature’s fall,
Of the Father’s Godhead true and only Son,
Mankind to deliver, manhood didst put on.

Refrain

Thou, of life the Author, death didst undergo,
Tread the path of darkness, saving strength to show;
Come, then True and Faithful, now fulfill Thy Word;
’Tis Thine own third morning; rise, O buried Lord!

Refrain

Loose the souls long prisoned, bound with Satan’s chain;
All that now is fallen raise to life again;
Show Thy face in brightness, bid the nations see;
Bring again our daylight: day returns with Thee!

Refrain

end(O God, who for our redemption gave your only-begotten Son to the death of the cross, and by his glorious resurrection delivered us from the power of our enemy:
Grant us so to die daily to sin, that we may evermore live with him in the joy of his resurrection; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

A Reading from the Acts of the Apostles: 10:34 Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism; cb(10,35); 10:35 but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him. cb(10,36); 10:36 The word which he sent to the children of Israel, preaching good news of peace by Jesus Christ—he is Lord of all—cb(10,37); 10:37 you yourselves know what happened, which was proclaimed throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached; cb(10,38); 10:38 even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. cb(10,39); 10:39 We are witnesses of everything he did both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they also killed, hanging him on a tree. cb(10,40); 10:40 God raised him up the third day, and gave him to be revealed, cb(10,41); 10:41 not to all the people, but to witnesses who were chosen before by God, to us, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. cb(10,42); 10:42 He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that this is he who is appointed by God as the Judge of the living and the dead. cb(10,43); 10:43 All the prophets testify about him, that through his name everyone who believes in him will receive remission of sins.”

Psalm 118:

1: Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; *
his mercy endures for ever.
2: Let Israel now proclaim, *
“His mercy endures for ever.”
14: The LORD is my strength and my song, *
and he has become my salvation.
15: There is a sound of exultation and victory *
in the tents of the righteous:
16: “The right hand of the LORD has triumphed! *
the right hand of the LORD is exalted!
the right hand of the LORD has triumphed!”
17: I shall not die, but live, *
and declare the works of the LORD.
18: The LORD has punished me sorely, *
but he did not hand me over to death.
19: Open for me the gates of righteousness; *
I will enter them;
I will offer thanks to the LORD.
20: “This is the gate of the LORD; *
he who is righteous may enter.”
21: I will give thanks to you, for you answered me *
and have become my salvation.
22: The same stone which the builders rejected *
has become the chief cornerstone.
23: This is the LORD’S doing, *
and it is marvelous in our eyes.
24: On this day the LORD has acted; *
we will rejoice and be glad in it.

A Reading from the First Letter to the Corinthians:

15:1 Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand, cb(15,2); 15:2 by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. cb(15,3); 15:3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, cb(15,4); 15:4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, cb(15,5); 15:5 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. cb(15,6); 15:6 Then he appeared to over five hundred brothers at once, most of whom remain until now, but some have also fallen asleep. cb(15,7); 15:7 Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, cb(15,8); 15:8 and last of all, as to the child born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also. cb(15,9); 15:9 For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God. cb(15,10); 15:10 But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was bestowed on me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. cb(15,11); 15:11 Whether then it is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.

The Day of Resurrection (Music)

The day of resurrection! Earth, tell it out abroad;
The Passover of gladness, the Passover of God.
From death to life eternal, from earth unto the sky,
Our Christ hath brought us over, with hymns of victory.

Our hearts be pure from evil, that we may see aright
The Lord in rays eternal of resurrection light;
And listening to His accents, may hear, so calm and plain,
His own “All hail!” and, hearing, may raise the victor strain.

Now let the heavens be joyful! Let earth the song begin!
Let the round world keep triumph, and all that is therein!
Let all things seen and unseen their notes in gladness blend,
For Christ the Lord hath risen, our joy that hath no end.

A Reading from the Gospel of John:

20:1 Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went early, while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw the stone taken away from the tomb. cb(20,2); 20:2 Therefore she ran and came to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have laid him!”cb(20,3);

20:3 Therefore Peter and the other disciple went out, and they went toward the tomb. cb(20,4); 20:4 They both ran together. The other disciple outran Peter, and came to the tomb first. cb(20,5); 20:5 Stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths lying, yet he didn’t enter in. cb(20,6); 20:6 Then Simon Peter came, following him, and entered into the tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying, cb(20,7); 20:7 and the cloth that had been on his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but rolled up in a place by itself. cb(20,8); 20:8 So then the other disciple who came first to the tomb also entered in, and he saw and believed. cb(20,9); 20:9 For as yet they didn’t know the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead. cb(20,10); 20:10 So the disciples went away again to their own homes.cb(20,11);

20:11 But Mary was standing outside at the tomb weeping. So, as she wept, she stooped and looked into the tomb, cb(20,12); 20:12 and she saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head, and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. cb(20,13); 20:13 They told her, “Woman, why are you weeping?”She said to them, “Because they have taken away my Lord, and I don’t know where they have laid him.” cb(20,14);

20:14 When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, and didn’t know that it was Jesus.cb(20,15);

20:15 Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?”She, supposing him to be the gardener, said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.”

cb(20,16);

20:16 Jesus said to her, “Mary.”She turned and said to him, “Rabboni!” which is to say, “Teacher!”

cb(20,17);

20:17 Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers, and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”cb(20,18);

20:18 Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had said these things to her.

Now the Green Blade Rises (Music)

Now the green blade rises from the buried grain,
Wheat that in the dark earth many years has lain;
Love lives again, that with the dead has been:
Love is come again, like wheat that springs up green.

In the grave they laid Him, Love Whom we had slain,
Thinking that He’d never wake to life again,
Laid in the earth like grain that sleeps unseen:
Love is come again, like wheat that springs up green.

Up He sprang at Easter, like the risen grain,
He that for three days in the grave had lain;
Up from the dead my risen Lord is seen:
Love is come again, like wheat that springs up green.

When our hearts are saddened, grieving or in pain,
By Your touch You call us back to life again;
Fields of our hearts that dead and bare have been:
Love is come again, like wheat that springs up green.

The Gardener (Grace Lutheran Church)

Nicene Creed: 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.

Let us pray for the Church and for the world.

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.

Silence