Day: April 4, 2009

The Parish of Christ Church
Palm Sunday
8:00am Holy Communion
10:30am Special Palm Sunday Service
(with Rt. Rev’d Sue Moxley & Nicole Veinotte, Interpreter for the Deaf)
4:30pm EP at Christ Church

Prelude: Chorale Prelude on “St. Theodulph” – John H. Schaffner (1945-1995)
Blessing of Palms & Palm Gospel                                                   (see liturgy insert)
Hymn # 130 “All Glory, laud and Honour”                                        (“St. Theodulph”)

Procession to Christ Church

Hymn #131 “Ride on! Ride on in Majesty”                                     (“Winchester New”)

Introduction to ‘A Litany of Lenten Scrolls’
The Passion According  to St. Matthew

The Litany                                                                                        (BCP, p.30)
1st Scroll and 1st Meditation
The Litany continued
2nd Scroll and 2nd Meditation
The Litany continued
3rd Scroll and 3rd Meditation
The Litany continued
4th Scroll and 4th Meditation
The Litany continued
5th Scroll and 5th Meditation

Conclusion of ‘A Litany of Lenten Scrolls’

Apostles’ Creed                                                                               (BCP, p. 10)
Offertory Hymn # 127                                                                      (“Batty”)
Lord’s Prayer
Collects & Blessing
Recessional Hymn # 108                                                                (“Herzliebster Jesu”)
Postlude: Fughetta in d minor – Josef Rheinberger (1839-1901)

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(To be included in tomorrow’s Palm Sunday service)

A Litany of Lenten Scrolls

Narrator:

We are sustained in the Lenten journey of our lives by the living Word of God. The Sunday School and Confirmation Class and all of us have been challenged to take to heart the Words of Scripture on these Sundays of Lent and for the journey of Holy Week. They have been written on scrolls.

(the Students will then recite the five scrolls of Scriptural verses)

• Man cannot live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God;
• Truth, Lord, yet the little dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table;
• Walk in love, as Christ also has loved us, and has given himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God;
• Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost;
• The Son of man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.

Narrator:

We begin Holy Week with shouts of joy and rejoicing. We shall end Holy Week with the joyous celebration of Christ’s Resurrection from the dead. And in between? Holy Week is the spectacle of our betrayals. Our shouts of ‘hosanna’ turn to the cries of ‘crucify’. Holy Week would immerse us in the Passion of Christ. “We shall look on him whom we have pierced.” We are in this story as the betrayers of Christ and of one another. Only through the accounts of the Passion in their fullness can we come to the greater joys of Easter. It begins with Matthew’s account of the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ.

(Then follows the drama of The Passion according to St. Matthew)

Narrator:

The Passion can only bring us to our knees in the Litany. The Litany is the first part of the Latin liturgy that was translated into English and modified by Archbishop Cranmer, the architect of The Book of Common Prayer. It is, in this sense, the earliest modern liturgy. A comprehensive form of prayer, it teaches us how to pray and what to pray for. Rooted and grounded in the Word of God, the Litany is about our penitential adoration of God.

The Litany follows, interspersed with Meditations upon each of the scriptural passages of the Lenten Scrolls. (more…)

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