Week beginning 31st March

 

There is holy communion in this worship Please prepare a small soft drink and piece of bread or a small biscuit before you watch

Happy Easter

Christ is risen! He is risen indeed hallelujah Let's celebrate this unstoppable life; let's open our hearts to the joy and wonder of infinite possibility, of unquenched hope, of eternal resurrection. We celebrate, We raise our voices and our hearts in worship and Thanksgiving. To God be the glory for ever and ever. Amen

What is the difference between "alleluia" and "hallelujah"?

''Alleluia'' and ''hallelujah'' mean the same thing: ''praise the Lord.'' However, ''hallelujah'' is derived from the Hebrew spelling of the word while ''alleluia'' is the Latin transliteration of the Greek transliteration of ''hallelujah.''

What does "allelujah" mean?

''Allelujah,'' which is also spelled ''alleluia'' or ''hallelujah,'' means ''praise the Lord.'' It is derived from the Hebrew word ''hallelujah,'' of which the root hallel means ''praise'' and the suffix yah/jah means ''Yahweh''/''Lord.''

Christ the Lord is risen today hallelujah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzy7jFNUc3w&list=RDnzy7jFNUc3w&index=2

Luke 10: 1 – 2. 17 – 24

1 After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go. 2 He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.

 17 The seventy-two returned with joy and said, “Lord, even the demons submit to us in your name.” 18 He replied, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. 19 I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you. 20 However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.” 21 At that time Jesus, full of joy through the Holy Spirit, said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this is what you were pleased to do.

22 “All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.” 23 Then he turned to his disciples and said privately, “Blessed are the eyes that see what you see. 24 For I tell you that many prophets and kings wanted to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.”

Prayer

In joy and hope let us pray to the Father. That our risen Saviour may fill us with the joy of his glorious and life-giving resurrection … We pray that isolated and persecuted churches may find fresh strength in the good news of Easter… We pray Father help us to build each other up in Christian love We pray Father that you may provide for those who lack food, work or shelter…

We pray Father that by your power war and famine may cease through all the world …

We pray Father that you may reveal the light of your presence to the sick, the weak and the dying, to comfort and strengthen them. We pray Father that you may send us out through the gift of your Holy Spirit that we may bear faithful witness to Christ’s resurrection, In the same way as Christ sent out the seventy two Heavenly Father, you have delivered us from the power of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of your Son: grant that, as his death has recalled us to life, so his continual presence in us may raise us to eternal joy; through Christ our Lord. Amen.

To God be the glory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CeBoSQsBR0

In Numbers 24:6, God describes Israel as aloes planted by the Lord! “Like valleys that stretch out, like gardens by the riverside, like the aloes planted by the Lord, like the cedars beside the waters.” Aloes is one of the eight trees in scripture mentioned by name, which the Lord has planted. also Aloes (Aloe Vera ) used as an antiseptic on the body to stop bacterial growth

Many encyclopedic sources, when talking of Aloe and Myrrh, immediately link and associate the herbs with the events of the Crucifixion. “Myrrh is a constituent of perfumes and incense, and was highly prized in ancient times. Myrrh was one of the gifts of the Magi took to the baby Jesus in the story told in the Gospel of Matthew. Myrrh was a fact alluded to in the Christmas Carol ‘We Three Kings’…”

Luke 24: 1 – 8

1 On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. 2 They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, 3 but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. 4 While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. 5 In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead? 6  He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he

was still with you in Galilee: 7 ‘The Son of Man must be delivered over to the hands of sinners, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.’ ” 8 Then they remembered his words.

All to Jesus I surrender.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7FhoxqX2Dk

Let us pray

O Lord Almighty, eternal God, gather together your Church from the ends of the earth into your kingdom, as grain was once scattered and now has become one loaf. Our Father, we also thank you for the precious blood of Jesus Christ, which was shed for us that our sins have been forgiven. Amen

Resurrection happened because Christ was first prepared to die. Defying death, He refused to release His hold on life and love. So now, as He encouraged us, we choose to remember so that we too can truly live. At the meal on the night before He died Jesus took bread and blessed it. Then He broke it and gave it to His disciples saying: This is my body, broken so that you may know life.

Eat it and remember Me. After the meal Jesus took the cup and blessed it. Then He gave it to His disciples saying: This is my blood, shed for you so that you may have life. Drink it and remember Me.

Pick up bread or biscuit

Father God bless this food to me I eat this in remembrance of your son Jesus my Lord and saviour

Now Eat it Lord Jesus I am thankful that you died for me.

Pick up your cup of liquid

Father God bless this cup as I drink it in doing so I remember your son Jesus my Lord and Saviour

Now drink it Lord Jesus I am thankful that you died for me.

TALK

We see new life in the trees budding with green leaves. If you are able to visit a wild life park you may see baby ducks on the water, baby chicks following their mother hen.

Baby lambs leaping and playing or following their mums, daffodils crocuses and tulips are giving a wonderful display of colour

Did you receive am Easter card this year ? Did you give Easter cards to your friends and neighbours, this time of your is a time of telling friends and strangers the true Easter story.

Easter story to read

https://www.godwhospeaks.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/The-Easter-Story-in-Plain-English.pdf

We started with Hallelujah therefore is only right to end with Alleluia.

Alleluia, alleluia, give thanks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZcCnLfufQs

Benediction

Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.—Hebrews 13:20–21