April 4, 2010 - EASTER SUNDAY

6:00 AM
Sunrise Holy Eucharist with lighting of the paschal candle and meditations by EFM.


8:00 AM
Usher: Evan Cooper
Usher: Vic Cooper
First Reading: Pick up Reader’s Card
Psalm: Pick up Reader’s Card
Second Reading: Pick up Reader’s Card
Prayers of the People: Pick up Reader’s Card
Chalice: Ann Cooper
Chalice: Needed

Coffee Hour: VESTRY

10:00 AM
Usher: Stephen Duke
Usher: Barbara Ramsey-Duke
First Reading: Elizabeth Pringle
Psalm: Sandy Pringle
Second Reading: Jeanne Kipp
Prayers of the People: Kim Baily
Chalice: Rob Nelson
Chalice: Bob Nelson

Coffee Hour: VESTRY

First Reading Isaiah 65:17-25

For I am about to create new heavens
and a new earth;
the former things shall not be remembered
or come to mind.
But be glad and rejoice forever
in what I am creating;
for I am about to create Jerusalem as a joy,
and its people as a delight.
I will rejoice in Jerusalem,
and delight in my people;
no more shall the sound of weeping be heard in it,
or the cry of distress.
No more shall there be in it
an infant that lives but a few days,
or an old person who does not live out a lifetime;
for one who dies at a hundred years will be considered a youth,
and one who falls short of a hundred will be considered accursed.
They shall build houses and inhabit them;
they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
They shall not build and another inhabit;
they shall not plant and another eat;
for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be,
and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
They shall not labor in vain,
or bear children for calamity;
for they shall be offspring blessed by the LORD -
and their descendants as well.
Before they call I will answer,
while they are yet speaking I will hear.
The wolf and the lamb shall feed together,
the lion shall eat straw like the ox;
but the serpent -its food shall be dust!

They shall not hurt or destroy
on all my holy mountain, says the LORD.


Psalm 118:1-2. 14-24

Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; * his mercy endures for ever.
Let Israel now proclaim, * “His mercy endures for ever.”

The LORD is my strength and my song, * and he has become my salvation.
There is a sound of exultation and victory * in the tents of the righteous:

“The right hand of the LORD has triumphed! * the right hand of the LORD is exalted! the right hand of the LORD has triumphed!”
I shall not die, but live, * and declare the works of the LORD.

The LORD has punished me sorely, * but he did not hand me over to death.
Open for me the gates of righteousness; * I will enter them; I will offer thanks to the LORD.

“This is the gate of the LORD; * he who is righteous may enter.”
I will give thanks to you, for you answered me * and have become my salvation.

The same stone which the builders rejected * has become the chief cornerstone.
This is the LORD’S doing, * and it is marvelous in our eyes.

On this day the LORD has acted; * we will rejoice and be glad in it.

Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen.


Second 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.”


Holy Gospel Luke 24:1-12

The +++ Holy Gospel of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ according to Luke.
Glory to you, Lord Christ.

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.