Serving on Easter Sunday (April 8, 2007)

5:00 AM Sunrise Easter Vigil

Reading Story Reader
Genesis 1:1-2:2 The Story of Creation Velda Ishizaki
Genesis 7:1-5; 11-18;
8:6-18; 9:8-13 The Flood Sandy Pringle
Genesis 22:1-18 Abraham's Sacrifice of Isaac Dar Hoover
Exodus 1:10-15:1 Israel's Deliverance at the Red Sea Dawn Switzer
Isaiah 55:1-11 Salvation offered freely to All Allan Dawson
Ezerkiel 36:24-28 A New Heart and a new spirit Katharine Bingham
Ezekiel 37:1-14 Dry Bones Lizz Beitzel
Romans 6: 3-11 We die with Christ
we will be resurrected with Christ Velda Ishizaki
Psalm 114 Recap of Red Sea Story Lizz Beitzel
Luke 24: 1-10 The women at the tomb Father Bill


8:00 AM

Usher: Mark Bennison
Usher: Christina Bennison

First Reading: Gail Brierley
Psalm: Valerie Ellis
Second Reading: Blake LaMar

Prayers of the People: Dar Hoover

Chalice: Dar Hoover
Chalice: Janet Murry

10:00 AM

Usher: Bob Nelson
Usher: Sandie Nelson

First Reading: Nan Wilson
Psalm: Elizabeth Pringle
Second Reading: Gail Connolly

Prayers of the People: Jeanne Kipp

Chalice: Susan Mulledy-DeFrank
Chalice: Andy Tomat

The Collect

Almighty God, who through your only-begotten Son Jesus Christ overcame death and opened to us the gate of everlasting life: Grant that we, who celebrate with joy the day of the Lord's resurrection, may be raised from the death of sin by your life-giving Spirit; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.


The First Reading
Acts 10:34-43

Then Peter began to speak to them: "I truly understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him. You know the message he sent to the people of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ--he is Lord of all. That message spread throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John announced: how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power; how he went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. We are witnesses to all that he did both in Judea and in Jerusalem. They put him to death by hanging him on a tree; but God raised him on the third day and allowed him to appear, not to all the people but to us who were chosen by God as witnesses, and who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one ordained by God as judge of the living and the dead. All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name."


Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24 Page 760, BCP
Confitemini Domino

1
Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; *
his mercy endures for ever.
2
Let Israel now proclaim, *
"His mercy endures for ever."
14
The LORD is my strength and my song, *
and he has become my salvation.
15
There is a sound of exultation and victory *
in the tents of the righteous:
16
"The right hand of the LORD has triumphed! *
the right hand of the LORD is exalted!
the right hand of the LORD has triumphed!"
17
I shall not die, but live, *
and declare the works of the LORD.
18
The LORD has punished me sorely, *
but he did not hand me over to death.
19
Open for me the gates of righteousness; *
I will enter them;
I will offer thanks to the LORD.
20
"This is the gate of the LORD; *
he who is righteous may enter."
21
I will give thanks to you, for you answered me *
and have become my salvation.
22
The same stone which the builders rejected *
has become the chief cornerstone.
23
This is the LORD'S doing, *
and it is marvelous in our eyes.
24
On this day the LORD has acted; *
we will rejoice and be glad in it.

The Second Reading
1 Corinthians 15:19-26

If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied.
But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have died. For since death came through a human being, the resurrection of the dead has also come through a human being; for as all die in Adam, so all will be made alive in Christ. But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ. Then comes the end, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father, after he has destroyed every ruler and every authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death.


The Gospel

Luke 24:1-12
On the first day of the week, at early dawn, the women who had come with Jesus from Galilee 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. While they were perplexed about this, suddenly two men in dazzling clothes stood beside them. The women were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, but the men said to 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. But these words seemed to them an idle tale, and they did not believe them. But Peter got up and ran to the tomb; stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths by themselves; then he went home, amazed at what had happened.