After a sunrise service on Cleeve Hill [see the previous blog] we returned to Highbury for breakfast and then lots more people joined us in a church we had laid out once more as the Upper Room, meeting around the table to share in a memorable meal.
It was the women who made it
happen.
It was the women
who saw it
through to the end.
It was the women who spread the
word
The Women of Galilee
Through
the cities and villages of Galilee
And
everywhere he went Jesus had a message to share –
the
Good News of the Kingdom
of God
On
earth as in heaven your kingdom come
Your
will be done
It
wasn’t only the twelve who were with him.
There
were some women too.
Some
had been sick, very sick
And
they had been healed, made whole, by Jesus.
Mary,
called Magdalene
And
Joanna, the wife of Herod’s steward Chuza
And
Susanna, and many others.
They
were the ones who made it happen.
They
provided for Jesus,
It was the women who made it
happen.
It was the women
who saw it
through to the end.
It was the women who spread the
word
The Women of Galilee
That
Friday as darkness came over the whole land
When
all the crowds who had gathered for the spectacle
saw
what had taken place,
they
returned home, beating their breasts.
But
all his friends,
including
the women who had followed him from Galilee ,
stood
at a distance and watched.
It was the women who made it
happen.
It was the women
who saw it
through to the end.
It was the women who spread the
word
The Women of Galilee
The
women who had come with him from Galilee followed,
and
they saw the tomb and how his body was laid.
Then
they returned and prepared spices and ointments.
On
the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.
It was the women who made it
happen.
It was the women
who saw it
through to the end.
It was the women who spread the
word
The Women of Galilee
But on the first day of the week, at early
dawn,
Those very same women came to the tomb,
taking the spices that they had prepared.
They found the stone rolled away from the tomb,
but when they went in, they did not find the
body.
suddenly two men in dazzling clothes stood
beside them.
‘Why do you look for the living among the dead?
He is not here, but has risen. Remember how he told you, while he was
still in Galilee , that the Son of Man must be handed
over to sinners, and be crucified, and on the third day rise again.’
Then they remembered his words, and returning from the tomb, they told
all this to the eleven and to all the rest.
Now it was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the
mother of James, and the other women with them who told this to the apostles.
It was the women who made it
happen.
It was the women
who saw it
through to the end.
It was the women who spread the
word
The Women of Galilee
It
was the women who spread the word
The
women of Galilee
Women: Christ
is risen!
Men: He
is risen indeed!
Women: Christ
is risen!
Men He
is risen indeed!
Women: Christ
is risen!
Men: He
is risen indeed.
1 Jesus
Christ is risen today, Alleluia.
our
triumphant holy day, Alleluia.
who
did once, upon the cross, Alleluia.
suffer
to redeem our loss. Alleluia.
2 Hymns
of joy then let us sing
praising
Christ, our heavenly King,
who
endured the Cross and grave,
sinners
to redeem and save.
3 But
the pains that he endured
our
salvation have procured;
now
above the sky he's King,
where
the angels ever sing.
Surrexit Christus hodie
(CCL3540)
Anonymous Latin, Lyra Davidica (1708), Compleat Psalmodist (1749 Arnold
Prayer
and the Lord’s Prayer
The meals had always been memorable.
Maybe, it was the company he kept.
On occasion the well to do, more often than not the ones everyone
else had no time for.
Tax collectors and sinners.
The meals had always been memorable.
The woman who had poured such expensive pefume all over him – what
a shock to the system. And yet he simply
accepted her.
He had stories to tell of great banquets in heaven.
And then that last night – bread that he broke and a cup that he
shared.
And then his body had been broken, his blood had been shed, in the
cruellest of ways.
Their dreams had been shattered …
Telling of the Road to Emmaus
Luke 24:13-31a
A
Supper at Emmaus
1 As we
walked home at close of day,
a stranger
joined us on our way.
He heard
us speak of one who’d gone
and when
we stopped, he carried on.
2 ‘Why wander
further without light?
Please
stay with us this troubled night.
We’ve
shared the truth of how we feel
and now
would like to share a meal.’
3 We sat to
eat our simple spread,
then
watched the stranger take the bread;
and, as he
said the blessing prayer,
we knew
that someone else was there.
4 No stranger
he; it was our eyes
which
failed to see, in stranger’s guise,
the Lord,
who risen from the dead,
met us
when ready to be fed.
5 Alleluia!
Alleluia!
Alleluia!
Alleluia!
As Mary
and our sisters said,
The Lord
is risen from the dead!
John L Bell (born 1949) and Graham Maule (born 1958)
© 1988 WGRG, Iona
Community
Used By Permission. CCL
Licence No. 3540
A
Meal in the Upper Room
The meals became even more memorable
Never to be forgotten.
Telling of the return – Luke 24:31b to 3543
And then listen out for what happens in the upper room …
Lord,
I lift Your name on high,
Lord, I love to sing Your praises,
I'm so glad You're in my life,
I'm so glad You came to save us.
You came from heaven to earth
To show the way,
From the earth to the cross,
My debt to pay,
From the cross to the grave,
From the grave to the sky,
Lord, I lift Your name on high.
Lord, I love to sing Your praises,
I'm so glad You're in my life,
I'm so glad You came to save us.
You came from heaven to earth
To show the way,
From the earth to the cross,
My debt to pay,
From the cross to the grave,
From the grave to the sky,
Lord, I lift Your name on high.
Rick
Founds CCl 3540
Breakfast
on the Beach
The
meals had always been memorable.
But
now they became even more memorable.
Telling
of the catch of fish John 21:1-8
This is the Good News
The grave is empty
Christ is risen
All: HE
IS RISEN INDEED! ALLELUIA!
This is the Good News
The light shines in the darkness
And the darkness can never put it out
Christ is risen
All: HE IS RISEN INDEED! ALLELUIA!
This Is the Good News
Once we were no people
Now we are God’s people
Christ is risen
All: HE IS RISEN INDEED! ALLELUIA!
1 Good
Christians all, rejoice and sing!
Now is the
triumph of our King!
To the
whole world glad news we bring:
Alleluia!
2 The Lord of
life is risen today;
death's
mighty stone is rolled away:
let every
tongue rejoice and say:
Alleluia!
3 We praise
in songs of victory
that love,
that life, which cannot die,
and sing
with hearts uplifted high:
Alleluia!
4 Your name
we bless, O risen Lord,
and sing
today with one accord
the life
laid down, the life restored:
Alleluia!
Cyril A Alington (1872-1955) © Sir Richard Mynors
CCL 3540
Offering
and Dedication
The
Table is Prepared
Three times Peter denied Jesus and he wept.
In words we have spoken we too have denied Jesus
Father, forgive us
In deeds we have done we too have denied Jesus
Father, forgive us
In thoughts we have hidden
we too have denied Jesus
Father, forgive us.
Three times Peter affirmed his love for Jesus
Jesus asks us by name, Do you love me more than these?
Yes, Lord, you know
that I love you.
Jesus says to each of us, “Feed my lambs.”
Jesus asks us by name, Do you love me?
Yes, Lord, you know
that I love you.
Jesus says to each of us, “Tend my sheep.”
Jesus asks us by name, “Do you love me?”
Lord, you know
everything,
you know that I love
you.
Jesus says to each of us, “Feed my sheep.”
Feed my sheep – caring for others – Louise to introduce Christian
Aid Wheelathon
Our
Communion Collection for
Cruse
Bereavement Care
1 Led like a
lamb to the slaughter
In silence
and shame,
There on
Your back You carried a world
Of violence
and pain.
Bleeding,
dying, bleeding, dying.
You're
alive, You're alive,
You have risen, Alleluia!
And the
power and the glory is given,
Alleluia, Jesus, to You.
2 At break of
dawn, poor Mary,
Still
weeping she came,
Now speaking her name.
Mary,
Master, Mary, Master!
Refrain
3 At the
right hand of the Father
Now seated
on high
You have
begun Your eternal reign
Of justice
and joy.
Glory,
glory, glory, glory.
Refrain
Graham Kendrick (born 1950) CCL 3540
We
break bread and share the cup
Using
the passage from Luke 24:28ff
Thine be the glory, risen conquering Son;
endless is the victory thou o'er death hast won.
Angels in bright raiment rolled the stone away,
kept the folded grave clothes where thy body lay.
Thine be the glory, risen conquering Son:
Endless is the victory, thou o'er death hast
won.
Lo! Jesus meets us, risen from the tomb;
lovingly he greets us, scatters fear and gloom.
Let his church with gladness, hymns of triumph sing;
for her Lord now liveth, death hath lost its sting.
Refrain
No more we doubt thee, glorious prince of life!
Life is nought without thee; aid us in our strife;
make us more than conquerors,
through
thy deathless love:
Bring us safe through Jordan
Refrain
Edmund L Budry (1854-1932), translated by Richard B
Hoyle (1875-1939) CCL 3540
Words of Blessing
Now
to him who is able to keep us from falling, and to make us stand without
blemish
in
the presence of his glory with rejoicing,
to
the only God our Saviour,
through
Jesus Christ our Lord,
be
glory, majesty, power, and authority,
before
all time and now and for ever. Amen.
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