EASTER 3
14th APRIL
Choral Eucharist will be livestreamed and available online at Holy Trinity’s YouTube site from 10.55am Sunday at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnXiGtcuP8g
WELCOME
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
OPENING HYMN
Good Christian men, rejoice and sing!
Now is the triumph of our King:
To all the world glad news we bring:
Alleluya!
The Lord of Life is risen for ay:
Bring flowers of song to strew his way;
Let all mankind rejoice and say:
Alleluya!
Praise we in songs of victory
That Love, that Life, which cannot die,
And sing with hearts uplifted high:
Alleluya!
Thy name we bless, O risen Lord,
And sing today with one accord
The life laid down, the life restored:
Alleluya!
APPROACH TO GOD (please sit or kneel)
Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us;
Therefore let us keep the feast.
Not with the old leaven of corruption and wickedness;
But with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Christ being raised from the dead dies no more;
Death has no more dominion over us.
O be joyful in the Lord, all his people;
Let us serve the Lord with gladness.
COLLECT FOR PURITY
Almighty God,
to whom all hearts are open, all desires known,
and from whom no secrets are hidden:
cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of your Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love you,
and worthily magnify your holy name;
through Christ our Lord. Amen.
CONFESSION AND ABSOLUTION (sit or kneel)
Christ broke the bonds of death and hell, and rose victorious from the grave. Let us pray that God may bring us to the fullness of redemption. Let us confess our sins in penitence and faith.
Almighty God, we confess to you
and to our fellow members in the Body of Christ that we have sinned in thought, word and deed, and in what we have failed to do.
We are truly sorry. Forgive us our sins,
and deliver us from the power of evil,
for the sake of your Son who died for us,
Jesus Christ, our Lord.
THE ABSOLUTION
May the risen Lord, whose love was stronger than death, forgive us through his redeeming love, that we may be healed and strengthened, and raised to new life in him, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
GLORIA (Sung)
The Liturgy of the Word
FIRST READING
A reading from the Acts of the Apostles
Peter addressed the people, ‘You Israelites, why do you wonder at this, or why do you stare at us, as though by our own power or piety we had made him walk? The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our ancestors has glorified his servant Jesus, whom you handed over and rejected in the presence of Pilate, though he had decided to release him. But you rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked to have a murderer given to you, and you killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses. And by faith in his name, his name itself has made this man strong, whom you see and know; and the faith that is through Jesus has given him this perfect health in the presence of all of you.
‘And now, friends, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your
rulers. In this way God fulfilled what he had foretold through all the
prophets, that his Messiah would suffer. Repent therefore, and turn to God so that your sins may be wiped out.
(Acts 3:12-19)
This is the word of the Lord
Thanks be to God.
GRADUAL HYMN
Ye choirs of new Jerusalem,
Your sweetest notes employ,
The Paschal victory to hymn
In strains of holy joy.
How Judah's Lion burst his chains,
And crushed the serpent's head;
And brought with him, from death's domains,
The long-imprisoned dead.
While joyful thus his praise we sing,
His mercy we implore,
Into his palace bright to bring
And keep us evermore.
All glory to the Father be,
All glory to the Son,
All glory, Holy Ghost, to thee,
While endless ages run. Alleluya! Amen.
ALLELUIA
GOSPEL
Hear the gospel of our Lord according to Luke
Glory to Christ our Saviour.
While the eleven and their companions were talking about they had heard, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, ‘Peace be with you.’ They were startled and terrified, and thought that they were seeing a ghost. He said to them, ‘Why are you frightened, and why do doubts arise in your hearts? Look at my hands and my feet; see that it is I myself. Touch me and see; for a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.’ And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. While in their joy they were disbelieving and still wondering, he said to them, ‘Have you anything here to eat?’ They gave him a piece of broiled fish, and he took it and ate in their presence.
Then he said to them, ‘These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you—that everything written about me in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms must be fulfilled.’ Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures, and he said to them, ‘Thus it is written, that the Messiah is to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things.
(Luke 24:36-48)
Give thanks to the Lord for his glorious Gospel.
Praise to Christ our Lord.
SERMON
ANTHEM - Panis angelicus (Franck)
May the Bread of Angels become bread for mankind;
The Bread of Heaven puts all foreshadowings to an end;
Oh, thing miraculous! The body of the Lord will nourish
the poor, the poor, the servile, and the humble.
INTERCESSIONS
PEACE (stand)
We meet in Christ’s name.
Let us share his peace.
OFFERTORY HYMN
THE King of love my Shepherd is,
Whose goodness faileth never;
I nothing lack if I am his
And he is mine for ever.
Where streams of living water flow
My ransomed soul he leadeth,
And where the verdant pastures grow
With food celestial feedeth.
Perverse and foolish oft I strayed,
But yet in love he sought me,
And on his shoulder gently laid,
And home, rejoicing, brought me.
In death's dark vale I fear no ill
With thee, dear Lord, beside me;
Thy rod and staff my comfort still,
Thy cross before to guide me.
Thou spread'st a table in my sight;
Thy unction, grace bestoweth:
And O what transport of delight
From thy pure chalice floweth!
And so through all the length of days
Thy goodness faileth never;
Good Shepherd, may I sing thy praise
Within thy house for ever.
THE GREAT THANKSGIVING
The Lord be with you.
And also with you.
Lift up your hearts.
We lift them to the Lord.
Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
It is right to give him thanks and praise.
Worship and praise belong to you,
author of all being.
Your power sustains,
your love restores our broken world.
You are unceasingly at work, from chaos,
bringing order
and filling emptiness with life.
Christ raised from the dead,
proclaims the dawn of hope.
He lives in us that we may walk in light.
Your Spirit is fire in us,
your breath is power to purge our sin
and warm our hearts to love.
As children of your redeeming purpose,
freed by him who burst from the tomb
and opened the gate of life,
We offer you our praise, with angels and archangels
And the whole company of heaven,
singing the hymn of your unending glory.
SANCTUS (Sung)
CONSECRATION PRAYER
Praise and thanksgiving be to you, Lord of all,
for by the cross eternal life is ours
and death is swallowed up in victory.
In the first light of Easter, glory broke from the tomb
and changed the women’s sorrow into joy.
From the garden the truth shone clear
that he whom they had loved and lost
was with them now in every place, for ever.
Making himself known in the breaking of the bread,
speaking peace to his fearful disciples,
welcoming weary fishers on the shore,
he renewed the promise of his presence,
and of new birth in the Spirit
who sets the seal of freedom on your sons and daughters.
On the night when he was given up to death,
knowing that his hour had come,
having loved his own, he loved them to the end.
At supper with his disciples
he took bread and offered you thanks.
He broke the bread, and gave it to them, saying:
‘Take, eat. This is my Body: it is broken for you.’
After supper, he took the cup,
he offered you thanks, and gave it to them saying:
‘Drink this, all of you.
This is my Blood of the new covenant;
it is poured out for you, and for all,
that sins may be forgiven.
Do this in remembrance of me.’
We now obey your Son’s command.
We recall his blessed passion and death,
his glorious resurrection and ascension;
and we look for the coming of his Kingdom.
Made one with him, we offer you these gifts
and with them ourselves,
a single, holy, living sacrifice.
Hear us, most merciful God,
and send your Holy Spirit upon us
and upon this bread and this wine,
that, overshadowed by his life-giving power,
they may be the Body and Blood of your Son,
and we may be kindled with the fire of your love
and renewed for the service of your Kingdom.
Help us, who are baptised into the fellowship of Christ’s Body,
to live and work to your praise and glory;
may we grow together in unity and love
until at last, in your new creation,
we enter into our heritage,
in the company of the Virgin Mary,
the apostles and prophets,
and of all our brothers and sisters
living and departed.
Through Jesus Christ our Lord,
with whom, and in whom, in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
all honour and glory be to you, Lord of all ages, world without end.
Amen.
THE FRACTION
The living bread is broken for the life of the world.
Lord, unite us in this sign.
LORD’S PRAYER
As our Saviour Christ has commanded and taught us,
we are bold to say;
Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name;
Thy kingdom come; thy will be done;
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread;
and forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For thine is kingdom, the power and the glory
For ever and ever. Amen.
PRAYER OF HUMBLE ACCESS
We do not presume to come to this thy Holy Table,
O merciful Lord, trusting in our own righteousness,
but in thy manifold and great mercies.
We are not worthy so much as to gather up the crumbs under thy Table:
but thou art the same Lord, whose property is always to have mercy.
Grant us therefore, gracious Lord, so to eat the Flesh of thy dear Son Jesus Christ,
and to drink his Blood, that our sinful bodies may be made clean
by his most sacred Body,
and our souls washed through his most precious Blood,
and that we may evermore dwell in him, and he in us. Amen.
AGNUS DEI (sung)
COMMUNION HYMN
Sweet Sacrament divine,
Hid in thine earthly home,
Lo, round thy lowly shrine,
With suppliant hearts we come;
Jesu, to thee our voice we raise
In songs of love and heartfelt praise:
Sweet Sacrament divine.(2)
Sweet Sacrament of peace,
Dear home for every heart,
Where restless yearnings cease
And sorrows all depart;
There in thine ear all trustfully
We tell our tale of misery:
Sweet Sacrament of peace.(2)
Sweet Sacrament of rest,
Ark from the ocean's roar,
Within thy shelter blest
Soon may we reach the shore;
Save us, for still the tempest raves,
Save, lest we sink beneath the waves:
Sweet Sacrament of rest.(2)
Sweet Sacrament divine,
Earth's light and jubilee,
In thy far depths doth shine
Thy Godhead's majesty;
Sweet light, so shine on us, we pray
That earthly joys may fade away:
Sweet Sacrament divine. (2)
THANKSGIVING AND SENDING OUT
Give thanks to the Lord for he is gracious.
And his mercy endures for ever.
POST-COMMUNION PRAYER
All-powerful God,
whose will is to restore all to life in you,
grant that as you have come to us
in these gifts of bread and wine,
so you may come to others through us;
that more and more,
the world may know the power of him
who is our Resurrection and our Life.
Amen.
BLESSING to which we respond:
Amen.
DISMISSAL
Let us go in peace, to love and serve the Lord
In the name of Christ. Amen.
FINAL HYMN
Now thank we all our God,
With heart and hands and voices,
Who wondrous things hath done,
In whom his world rejoices;
Who from our mother's arms
Hath blessed us on our way
With countless gifts of love,
And still is ours to-day.
O may this bounteous God
Through all our life be near us,
With ever joyful hearts
And blessèd peace to cheer us;
And keep us in his grace,
And guide us when perplexed,
And free us from all ills
In this world and the next.
All praise and thanks to God
The Father now be given,
The Son, and him who reigns
With them in highest heaven,
The One eternal God,
Whom earth and heaven adore;
For thus it was, is now,
And shall be evermore. Amen.
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