A home worship service for Easter Day.

 Christ is risen!  Christ is risen indeed!

Scripture:

Acts 10:34-43

Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24

Colossians 3:1-4

John 20:1-18

Matthew 28:1-10

 Easter Hymns – Click on any link to hear the hymn.

Traditional

Christ The Lord is Risen Today

Crown Him with Many Crowns Traditional

Because He Lives Traditional

Anthem – Resurrection – Traditional

Contemporary

Crown Him with Many Crowns Contemporary

Christ is Risen

Anthem – Risen Contemporary

My Redeemer Lives – Contemporary

 Then pray:

God of all ages and of all people, the shadows and gloom

of Good Friday have been dispersed by the light and color

of Easter Sunday.  We rejoice in your power that turns

our sorrow into joy, our despair into hope, our defeat into victory

and evil into goodness. 

Help us on this Easter morning, to burst out of the tombs

that have trapped us:  tombs of selfishness and sinfulness,

greed and gluttony, scandal and corruption, pride and prejudice.

Let a new life of divine grace and human love burst forth

from each of us this Easter day, through the grace of Jesus Christ,

the Risen One. AMEN

 Psalm 118:1-2; 14-24 (NRSV) ~ A Song of Victory

¹ O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good;

    his steadfast love endures forever!

² Let Israel say,

    “His steadfast love endures forever.”

¹⁴ The Lord is my strength and my might;
    he has become my salvation.

¹⁵ There are glad songs of victory

   in the tents of the righteous:

   “The right hand of the Lord does valiantly;

¹⁶ the right hand of the Lord is exalted;

    the right hand of the Lord does valiantly.”

¹⁷ I shall not die, but I shall live,

    and recount the deeds of the Lord.

¹⁸ The Lord has punished me severely,

    but he did not give me over to death.

¹⁹ Open to me the gates of righteousness,

    that I may enter through them

    and give thanks to the Lord.

²⁰ This is the gate of the Lord;

    the righteous shall enter through it.

²¹ I thank you that you have answered me

    and have become my salvation.

²² The stone that the builders rejected

    has become the chief cornerstone.

²³ This is the Lord’s doing;

    it is marvelous in our eyes.

²⁴ This is the day that the Lord has made;

    let us rejoice and be glad in it.

After the readings, read the Gospel:

John 20:1-18 (NRSV) The Resurrection of Jesus

¹ Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark,

Mary Magdalene came to the tomb

and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb.

² So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple,

 the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them,

“They have taken the Lord out of the tomb,

and we do not know where they have laid him.”

³ Then Peter and the other disciple set out and went toward the tomb.

⁴ The two were running together, but the other disciple

outran Peter and reached the tomb first.

⁵ He bent down to look in and saw the linen wrappings lying there,

but he did not go in.

⁶ Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb.

He saw the linen wrappings lying there,

⁷ and the cloth that had been on Jesus’ head,

not lying with the linen wrappings but rolled up in a place by itself.

⁸ Then the other disciple, who reached the tomb first,

also went in, and he saw and believed;

⁹ for as yet they did not understand the scripture,

that he must rise from the dead.

¹⁰ Then the disciples returned to their homes.

Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene

¹¹ But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb.

As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb;

¹² and she saw two angels in white,

sitting where the body of Jesus had been lying,

one at the head and the other at the feet.

¹³ They said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?”

She said to them, “They have taken away my Lord,

and I do not know where they have laid him.”

¹⁴ When she had said this, she turned around

and saw Jesus standing there,

but she did not know that it was Jesus.

¹⁵ Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?

Whom are you looking for?”

Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him,

“Sir, if you have carried him away,

tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.”

¹⁶ Jesus said to her, “Mary!”

She turned and said to him in Hebrew,^[b] “Rabbouni!”

(which means Teacher).

¹⁷ Jesus said to her, “Do not hold on to me,

because I have not yet ascended to the Father.

But go to my brothers and say to them,

 ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father,

to my God and your God.’”

¹⁸ Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples,

“I have seen the Lord”;

and she told them that he had said these things to her.

Here you may share your thoughts with others.

Pastor Janet Mulroy will post a reflection on the scripture

on the Polson UMC Facebook page.

 

About this Gospel: Mary weeps; so do we. But do not weep.

The Risen Christ calls each of us by name.

Alleluia! Christ is risen!

 

PRAYERS OF INTERCESSION

Pray the Lord’s Prayer:

Our Father in heaven,

Hallowed be your name,

Your kingdom come,

Your will be done,

On earth as in heaven.

Give us today our daily bread,

Forgive us our trespasses

As we forgive those who trespass against us.

Lead us not into temptation

But deliver us from evil,

For thine is the kingdom, the power,

And the glory forever. Amen.

Pray this prayer and speak these final sentences:

Alleluia! Christ is Risen!

CHRIST IS RISEN INDEED. ALLELUIA!