| PREPARATION | ||||
| O God, make speed to save us. | ||||
| All | O Lord, make haste to help us. | |||
| If I climb up to heaven, you are there; | ||||
| All | if I make the grave my bed, you are there also. | |||
| Yesterday I was crucified with Christ; today I am glorified with him. Yesterday I was dead with Christ; today I am sharing in his resurrection. Yesterday I was buried with him; today I am waking with him from the sleep of death. |
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| Gregory of Nazianzus (389) | ||||
| The Word of God | ||||
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Psalm 118.14-24 Refrain:I will give thanks to you, 14 The Lord is my strength and my song, ♦ 15 Joyful shouts of salvation ♦ 16 ‘The right hand of the Lord does mighty deeds; 17 I shall not die, but live ♦ 18 The Lord has punished me sorely, ♦ 19 Open to me the gates of righteousness, ♦ 20 This is the gate of the Lord; ♦ 21 I will give thanks to you, for you have answered me ♦ 22 The stone which the builders rejected ♦ 23 This is the Lord’s doing, ♦ 24 This is the day that the Lord has made; ♦ Refrain:I will give thanks to you, |
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| All | Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit; as it was in the beginning is now and shall be for ever. Amen. |
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| Short readings | ||||
| Either, Sunday’s Lectionary Readings, | ||||
| or, on any day in Easter… | ||||
| Jesus said, ‘This is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given
me, but raise it up on the last day.’ |
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| John 6.39 | ||||
| Silence | ||||
| Blessed are the peacemakers, | ||||
| All | for they will be called children of God. | |||
| Matthew 5.9 | ||||
| Prayers | ||||
| Either, the following prayer is said, or the Collect for the day. | ||||
| Christ yesterday and today, the beginning and the end, Alpha and Omega, all time belongs to you, and all ages; to you be glory and power through every age and for ever. |
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| All | Amen. | |||
| {from the Easter Vigil} | ||||
| Let us pray with confidence as our Saviour has taught us | ||||
| 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, the power and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen. |
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| The Conclusion | ||||
| May the risen Christ give us his peace. | ||||
| All | Alleluia. Amen. | |||
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