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Monday in Easter Week

The collect for today, Monday in Easter Week, from The Book of Common Prayer (Canadian, 1962):

Almighty God, who through thine only-begotten Son Jesus Christ hast overcome death, and opened unto us the gate of everlasting life; We humbly beseech thee, that, as by thy special grace preventing us thou dost put into our minds good desires, so by thy continual help we may bring the same to good effect; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen.

For the Epistle: Acts 10:34-43
The Gospel: St Luke 24:13-35

Rembrandt, Supper at Emmaus (1648)Artwork: Rembrandt, The Supper at Emmaus, 1648. Oil on wood, Louvre, Paris.

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Easter-Day

Veronese, Resurrection of ChristThe collect for today, Easter-Day, from The Book of Common Prayer (Canadian, 1962) :

Almighty God, who through thine only-begotten Son Jesus Christ hast overcome death, and opened unto us the gate of everlasting life: We humbly beseech thee, that as by thy special grace preventing us thou dost put into our minds good desires, so by thy continual help we may bring the same to good effect; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, ever one God, world without end. Amen.

The Epistle: Colossians 3:1-11
The Gospel: St John 20:1-10

Artwork: Paolo Veronese, The Resurrection of Christ, c. 1570. Oil on canvas, Gemäldegalerie, Dresden.

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Easter Even

The collect for today, Easter Even, or Holy Saturday, from The Book of Common Prayer (Canadian, 1962):

Grant, O Lord, that as we are baptized into the death of thy blessed Son our Saviour Jesus Christ, so by continual mortifying our corrupt affections we may be buried with him; and that, through the grave, and gate of death, we may pass to our joyful resurrection; for his merits, who died, and was buried, and rose again for us, thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

The Epistle: 1 St Peter 3:17-22
The Gospel: St Matthew 27:57-66

Fra Angelico, EntombmentArtwork: Fra Angelico, The Lamentation over the Dead Christ (San Marco Altarpiece), 1438-40. Tempera on panel, Alte Pinakothek, Munich.

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Good Friday

The collects for today, Good Friday, from The Book of Common Prayer (Canadian, 1962):

Almighty God, we beseech thee graciously to behold this thy family, for which our Lord Jesus Christ was contented to be betrayed, and given up into the hands of wicked men, and to suffer death upon the cross; who now liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, ever one God, world without end. Amen.

Almighty and everlasting God, by whose Spirit the whole body of the Church is governed and sanctified: Receive our supplications and prayers, which we offer before thee for all estates of men in thy holy Church, that every member of the same, in his vocation and ministry, may truly and godly serve thee; through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.

The Epistle: Hebrews 10:1-25
The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ according to St John
The Gospel: St John 18:33-19:37

Stoss, Crucifixion

Artwork: Veit Stoss, Crucifixion (High Altar of St Mary), 1477-89. Wood, Church of St Mary, Cracow.

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Maundy Thursday

The collects for today, Thursday in Holy Week, commonly called Maundy Thursday, from The Book of Common Prayer (Canadian, 1962)

Almighty and everlasting God, who, of thy tender love towards mankind, hast sent thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christ, to take upon him our flesh, and to suffer death upon the cross, that all mankind should follow the example of his great humility: Mercifully grant, that we may both follow the example of his patience, and also he made partakers of his resurrection; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

O God, who in a wonderful sacrament hast left unto us a memorial of thy passion: Grant us so to reverence the holy mysteries of thy Body and Blood, that we may ever know within ourselves the fruit of thy redemption; who livest and reignest with the Father in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen.

The Epistle: 1 Corinthians 11:23-29
The Continuation of the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ according to St Luke
The Gospel: St Luke 23:1-49

Riemenschneider, The Last Supper
Artwork: Tilman Riemenschneider, The Last Supper (detail from Holy Blood Altar), 1501-02. Limewood, Church of Sankt Jakob, Rothenburg.

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Wednesday in Holy Week

The collect for today, Wednesday in Holy Week, from The Book of Common Prayer (Canadian, 1962):

Almighty and everlasting God, who, of thy tender love towards mankind, hast sent thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christ, to take upon him our flesh, and to suffer death upon the cross, that all mankind should follow the example of his great humility: Mercifully grant, that we may both follow the example of his patience, and also be made partakers of his resurrection; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

The Epistle: Hebrews 9:15-28
The Beginning of the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ according to St Luke
The Gospel: St Luke 22:-1-71

Giotto, Kiss of Judas

Artwork: Giotto di Bondone, The Kiss of Judas (Scenes from the Life of Christ), 1304-06. Fresco, Cappella Scrovegni, Padua.

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The Sunday Next Before Easter

The collect for today, the Sunday Next Before Easter, commonly called Palm Sunday, from The Book of Common Prayer (Canadian, 1962):

Almighty and everlasting God, who, of thy tender love towards mankind, hast sent thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christ, to take upon him our flesh, and to suffer death upon the cross, that all mankind should follow the example of his great humility; Mercifully grant, that we may both follow the example of his patience, and also be made partakers of his resurrection; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

The Epistle: Philippians 2:5-11
The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ According to St. Matthew
The Gospel: St Matthew 27:1-54

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Artwork: Pietro Lorenzetti, The Entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, 1320-1330. Fresco, Vault of the south transept of the Lower Church, San Francesco, Assisi.

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Palm Sunday Service

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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A Litany of Lenten Scrolls

(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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Saint Ambrose of Milan

Gozzoli, St Ambroise Baptising St AugustineThe collect for today, the Feast of St Ambrose (339-397), Bishop of Milan, Doctor of the Church, Poet (source):

Lord God of hosts,
who didst call Ambrose from the governor’s throne
to be a bishop in thy Church
and a courageous champion of thy faithful people:
mercifully grant that, as he fearlessly rebuked rulers,
so we may with like courage
contend for the faith which we have received;
through Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord,
who liveth and reigneth with thee,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.

For the Epistle: Ecclesiasticus 2:7-11, 16-18
The Gospel: St Luke 12:35-37, 42-44

Artwork: Benozzo Gozzoli, Saint Ambrose baptising Saint Augustine, 1464-65. Fresco, Apsidal chapel, Sant’Agostino, San Gimignano.

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