THE ORDER OF SERVICE FOR MORNING PRAYER
EASTER SUNDAY, APRIL 12, 2020 TEN THIRTY’ O CLOCK
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Easter Sunday – April 12, 2020
St. Mary the Virgin Anglican Church, Canon Claude Schroeder
Well, let me begin this morning wishing you all a very Happy Easter, in fact the very happiest of Easters!
Given the current circumstances, that probably comes across as something of a provocation. I mean, how can I wish you a happy Easter when all the things that we associate with the celebration of Easter, Easter flower arrangements and Easter music, a sense of new life associated with the coming to life of the earth again at springtime, Easter brunch with family and friends, and the delight and joy of children hunting for Easter eggs, has been taken from us? And we find ourselves plunged into this nightmare of a pandemic that has enshrounded the world in blanket of sickness, death, fear and anxiety and that has left many of us wondering, if, how, and when we are ever going to recover from this?
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The Minister: All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Isaiah 53. 6.
The Way of the Cross
THURSDAY IN HOLY WEEK (MAUNDY THURSDAY) – APRIL 9,2020 SEVEN THIRTY o’ CLOCK
THE ORDER OF SERVICE FOR EVENING PRAYER
O Lord, open thou our lips;
And our mouth shall show forth thy praise.
O God, make speed to save us;
O Lord, make haste to help us.
GLORY be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost;
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Praise ye the Lord;The Lord’s Name be praised.
Palm Sunday – April 5, 2020
LITURGY OF THE PALMS AND MORNING PRAYER
All:
Hosanna to the Son of David
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.
Minister:
Behold your king comes to you, O Zion,
meek and lowly, sitting upon an ass.
Ride on in the cause of truth
and for the sake of justice.
Your throne is the throne of God, it endures for ever;
and the sceptre of your kingdom is a righteous sceptre.
You have loved righteousness and hated evil.
Therefore God, your God, has anointed you
with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
THE FIFTH SUNDAY IN LENT – MARCH 29, 2020
THE ORDER OF SERVICE FOR MORNING PRAYER
The HYMN: O Spirit of the Living God.
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St. Mary the Virgin Anglican Church, Canon Claude Schroeder (John 11. 1-45)
Today we have come to the Fifth and final Sunday in the season of Lent, and the story of the Raising of Lazarus from the dead. This is the fourth in a series of encounters from St. John’s Gospel this Lent, where Jesus has been demonstrating His power to heal, save, and deliver us from all the powers of evil which threaten and destroy human life and God’s good creation.
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Let me encourage you to create a beautiful space in your home, and at 10.30 to sing, read and pray through the service as you are able. Hopefully you will have someone with whom to share the various roles.
I will be in my accustomed place tomorrow morning, and will joining with all of you in worship and prayer.
With every blessing for the Lord’s Day.
Claude +
THE ORDER OF SERVICE FOR MORNING PRAYER
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Canon Claude Schroeder ( John 9. 1-41)
So today we are continuing our Lenten sermon series, “Becoming the Story We Tell” where, in the Gospel lessons from St. John, we are exploring the meaning of Baptism, our “birth from above by water and the Spirit.” (John 3.5)
St. Paul, speaking of Holy Baptism, wrote, “For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his.”( Romans 6.5). Baptism is union with Jesus in His death. What was the death of Jesus? The death of Jesus Christ on the Cross was a death to sin. It was a death in which He entrusted Himself to God in love and obedience. It was a death unto life with God, and by that death He has defeated the power of death on our behalf, and was raised bodily to life again.
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