Easter Sunday Service Outline, April 4, 2021

 Welcome to worship at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church!

 

PRELUDE      Joy in the Morning                     Sleet/arr. Kaney     

Opening Litany        P.  Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.

                                 C.  Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia.

                                 P.  The Lord is risen indeed.

                                   C.  Oh, come, let us worship him.

                                 P.  We are illumined by the brightness of His rising.

                                 C.  Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia.

 

HYMN     Jesus Christ Is Risen Today                #365 v. 1,2,4

GREETING

The grace of our Lord, Jesus Christ, the love of God, and communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

And also with you.

 

KYRIE

HYMN OF PRAISE

 

PRAYER OF THE DAY

Children's message

FIRST READING: Acts 10:34-43

 ³⁴Then Peter began to speak to [the people:] "I truly understand that God shows no partiality, ³⁵but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him. ³⁶You know the message he sent to the people of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ—he is Lord of all. ³⁷That message spread throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John announced: ³⁸how 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. ³⁹We are witnesses to all that he did both in Judea and in Jerusalem. They put him to death by hanging him on a tree; ⁴⁰but God raised him on the third day and allowed him to appear, ⁴¹not to all the people but to us who were chosen by God as witnesses, and who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. ⁴²He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one ordained by God as judge of the living and the dead. ⁴³All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name."

 

PSALM: Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24

 ¹Give thanks to the LORD, for the ^| LORD is good; God's mercy en- ^| dures forever.

²Let Israel ^| now declare,   "God's mercy en- ^| dures forever."

¹⁴The LORD is my strength ^| and my song,    and has become ^| my salvation.

¹⁵Shouts of rejoicing and salvation echo in the tents ^| of the righteous:

"The right hand of the ^| LORD acts valiantly!

¹⁶The right hand of the LORD ^| is exalted! The right hand of the ^| LORD acts valiantly!"

¹⁷I shall not ^| die, but live, and declare the works ^| of the LORD. 

¹⁸The LORD indeed pun- ^| ished me sorely, but did not hand me o- ^| ver to death.

¹⁹Open for me the ^| gates of righteousness; I will enter them and give thanks ^| to the LORD.

²⁰"This is the gate ^| of the LORD;here the righ- ^| teous may enter."

²¹I give thanks to you, for you have ^| answered me and you have become ^| my salvation. 

²²The stone that the build- ^| ers rejected has become the chief ^| cornerstone.

²³By the LORD has ^| this been done; it is marvelous ^| in our eyes.

²⁴This is the day that the ^| LORD has made; let us rejoice and be ^| glad in it. 

 

SECOND READING: 1 Corinthians 15:1-11

¹Now I would remind you, brothers and sisters, of the good news that I proclaimed to you, which you in turn received, in which also you stand, ²through which also you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message that I proclaimed to you—unless you have come to believe in vain.

            ³For I handed on to you as of first importance what I in turn had received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures, ⁴and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures, ⁵and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. ⁶Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers and sisters at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have died. ⁷Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. ⁸Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me. ⁹For I am the least of the apostles, unfit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. ¹⁰But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me has not been in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them—though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me. ¹¹Whether then it was I or they, so we proclaim and so you have come to believe.

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION

GOSPEL: Mark 16:1-8

 ¹When the sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint [Jesus' body.] ²And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb. ³They had been saying to one another, "Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb?" ⁴When they looked up, they saw that the stone, which was very large, had already been rolled back. ⁵As they entered the tomb, they saw a young man, dressed in a white robe, sitting on the right side; and they were alarmed. ⁶But he said to them, "Do not be alarmed; you are looking for Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has been raised; he is not here. Look, there is the place they laid him. ⁷But go, tell his disciples and Peter that he is going ahead of you to Galilee; there you will see him, just as he told you." ⁸So they went out and fled from the tomb, for terror and amazement had seized them; and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid.

      The Gospel of the Lord.

Praise to you, O Christ.

 

SERMON

HYMN       The Strife Is O’er, the Battle Done       #366 v. 1,3,5

 

APOSTLES CREED

 

I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth.

 

I believe in Jesus Christ, God's only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried; he descended to the dead. On the third day he rose again; he ascended into heaven, he is seated at the right hand of the Father, and he will come to judge the living and the dead.

 

I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting.   Amen

 

PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE

PEACE 

OFFERING

THE WORDS OF INSTITUTION

LORD'S PRAYER

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, and the power, and the glory, forever and ever. Amen

DISTRIBUTION OF COMMUNION

POST COMMUNION PROCLAMATION

POST COMMUNION PRAYER

BLESSING

HYMN    Now All the Vault of Heaven Resounds      #367 v. 1,4

DISMISSAL

POSTLUDE     Sinfonia, Cantata (abridged)      J.S. Bach

 

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