Full Service - Easter Sunday - Year B
Taken from Times and Seasons
Description
Easter Sunday - Year B
Service contains:
Poem: A strange new day
Hymn: Thine be the glory or Come in the morning
Prayer: Easter Day Prayer
Reading: Acts 10:34-43 or Isaiah 25:6-9. Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24
Hymn: Now the green blade rises or A feast for the nations, the Christ is exalted
Reading: John 20:1-18 or Mark 16:1-8
Hymn: Low in the grave he lay or As hollow as her loneliness (for John 20:1-18)
Alternative Hymn: When our confidence is shaken or Frantic, terrified, the women (for Mark 16:1-8)
Sermon idea: Meditation: Is it any wonder?
Hymn: Alleluia, alleluia give thanks to the risen Lord or No soldiers and no body
Prayer: They ran away
Communion may be shared at this point
Hymn: The day of resurrection or God makes no distinctions, all people are welcome
Blessing: May God, whose Easter dawn…
Andrew Pratt (born 1948)
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