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APRIL 16 2023 SECOND SUNDAY OF EASTER
· 17.04.2023 · 07:16:16 ··· Montag ⭐ 0 🎬 0
📺 St.Andrew's United Church Edmonton
We Welcome You to our Service for
April 16, 2023 - 10:00am
THE LIGHT OF CHRIST COMES AMONG US
Prelude
Words of Welcome
Candle Lighting: Where the Light of Easter Day
Where the light of Easter Day
Shines through our life, then faith can say,
Christ is living, Christ is moving,
Christ is changing all the world.
Here is God's good presence.
Where a child can grow in trust,
Where there is joy that powers are just,
Christ is living, Christ is moving,
Christ will colour all the world.
Here is God’s good presence.
*The Exchange of the Peace of Christ
Gathering Prayer: We pray: Holy One, may we be empowered to look to the future with hope: unafraid of our dreams, realistic about our limitations, yet never losing hope in our potential to live courageously in today and for tomorrow. May it be so. Amen
A Time of Centering
Gathering Hymn: Now the Green Blade Rises
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 a rising green.
In the grave they laid Him, Love Whom we had slain,
Thinking that He would never wake again,
Laid in the earth like grain that sleeps unseen:
Love is come again, like wheat a rising green.
Forth he came at Easter, like the risen grain,
He that for three days in the grave had lain;
Raised from the dead, my living Lord is seen:
Love is come again, like wheat a rising green.
When our hearts are wintry, grieving or in pain,
Your touch can call us back to life again;
Fields of our hearts that dead and bare have been:
Love is come again, like wheat a rising green.
Sacrament of Baptism
For Natalya
Introit: Take, O Take Me As I Am
Take, O take me as I am
Summon out what I shall be
Set your seal upon my heart
and live in me.
WE HEAR GOD’S WORD
First Reading: Acts 2: 14, 22-32
Gospel Reading: John 20: 19-31
Response: O Risen Christ
O risen Christ, light within us,
Your radiant light dispels the darkness.
May you easter in us,
Be a day spring to the dimness of us,
Be a crimson crested east.
Alleluia.
Proclamation: Baptism for Life
Rev. Dr. Geoffrey Wilfong-Pritchard
*Hymn: Who Is Moving Through the Silence?
AND RESPOND IN LOVE
Offertory
Prayers of the Community
The Prayer of Jesus
*Hymn: In the Bulb There is a Flower
In the bulb there is a flower;
in the seed, an apple tree;
in cocoons, a hidden promise:
butterflies will soon be free!
In the cold and snow of winter
there's a spring that waits to be,
unrevealed until its season,
something God alone can see.
There's a song in every silence,
seeking word and melody;
there's a dawn in every darkness
bringing hope to you and me.
From the past will come the future;
what it holds, a mystery,
unrevealed until its season,
something God alone can see.
In our end is our beginning;
in our time, infinity;
in our doubt there is believing;
in our life, eternity.
in our death, a resurrection;
at the last, a victory,
unrevealed until its season,
something God alone can see.
*Commissioning & Benediction
*Congregational Response: May the God of Hope
May the God of hope go with us every day,
Filling all our lives with love and joy and peace.
May the God of justice speed us on our way,
Bringing light and hope to every land and race.
Refrain:
Praying, let us work for peace,
Singing, share our joy with all,
Working for a world that's new,
Faithful when we hear Christ's call.
May the God of healing free the earth from fear,
Freeing us for peace, both treasured and pursued.
May the God of love keep our commitment clear
To a world re-stored to human life renewed.
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