Easter
Sunday
10:30 am Holy Communion Service
Grace Evangelical Lutheran, San Francisco
Welcome to worship at
Grace! Welcome to long-time
Lutherans, Christians from every tradition, and people new to faith. Welcome to
all who have no church home, want to follow Christ, have doubts, or do not
believe. Welcome to new visitors and old friends. Welcome to people of every
age and size, color and culture, every sexual orientation and gender identity,
socio-economic status, marital status, ability and challenge. Welcome to
believers and questioners, and to questioning believers. This is a place where
you are welcome to celebrate and sorrow, rejoice and recover. This is a place where lives are made new.
Special Welcome to
Newcomers Welcome
to our small community of faith. While
we are small in numbers, we have big hearts and a desire to grow. In order to help you follow along, we have
included all the materials you need for worship in this bulletin.
Please join us for worship any Sunday at 10:30am
that you are able. If you cannot join us
in person, you can also join us online via live stream or by watching the
archives of our worship and Bible Study that Doesn’t Suck anytime during the
week at our website (www.gracesf.com), or on our mobile phone app, Bible Study that Doesn’t Suck, is
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If you have any questions about the service
or about Grace, you can fill out the form in pew to let our pastor know you’d
like to chat. Or you can contact Pastor
Megan Rohrer at pastor@gracesf.com.
Prelude This is the Day
Greeting
Pastor: Alleluia! Christ is risen!
Congregation: Christ
is risen indeed! Alleluia!
The joy of the resurrection fills us with hope,
promises us new life, and draws
us together as one. We cannot keep this good news
to ourselves. Let us begin
our worship by turning to fellow worshipers and
greeting them with the words,
“Christ is risen!”
Worshipers
greet one another by saying, “Christ is risen!” or “Alleluia!” along with
introducing themselves to others they may not have yet met.
Gathering Hymn Verses
1,2 and 4
Prayer of the Day
Loving
God, thank you for all you have done to show us that you are with us and always
working to draw us closer to you. Help
us to know that Easter is not only a time to remember the life, death and
resurrection of Jesus, but to provoke us into loving better, caring for ourselves
and the world around us and accepting the welcome and pardon you continually
provide.
Welcome
First Reading
Isaiah 25:6-10
6On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a
feast of well-aged wines, of rich food filled with marrow, of well-aged wines
strained clear. 7And he will destroy on this mountain the shroud
that is cast over all peoples, the sheet that is spread over all nations; he
will swallow up death forever. 8Then the Lord God
will wipe away the tears from all faces, and the disgrace of his people he will
take away from all the earth, for the Lord has spoken.
9It will be said on that
day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, so that he might save us.
This is the Lord for whom we have waited; let us be glad
and rejoice in his salvation. 10For the hand of the Lord
will rest on this mountain. The Moabites shall be trodden down in their place
as straw is trodden down in a dung-pit. Word
of hope, word of life. Thanks
be to God
Second Reading 1 Corinthians 15:1-11
15Now I would remind you, brothers and
sisters, of the good news that I proclaimed to you, which you in turn received,
in which also you stand, 2through which also you are being saved, if
you hold firmly to the message that I proclaimed to you—unless you have come to
believe in vain. 3For I handed on to you as of first importance what
I in turn had received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the
scriptures, 4and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the
third day in accordance with the scriptures, 5and that he appeared
to Cephas, then to the twelve. 6Then he appeared to more than five
hundred brothers and sisters at one time, most of whom are still alive, though
some have died. 7Then he appeared to James, then to all the
apostles. 8Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to
me. 9For I am the least of the apostles, unfit to be called an
apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10But by the grace
of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me has not been in vain. On the
contrary, I worked harder than any of them—though it was not I, but the grace
of God that is with me. 11Whether then it was I or they, so we
proclaim and so you have come to believe.
Word of hope, word of
life. Thanks
be to God
Anthem Be
Joyful Together
Gospel Acclamation
Gospel Reading Mark
16:1-8
When
the sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome
bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. 2And very early
on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb. 3They
had been saying to one another, “Who will roll away the stone for us from the
entrance to the tomb?” 4When they looked up, they saw that the
stone, which was very large, had already been rolled back. 5As they
entered the tomb, they saw a young man, dressed in a white robe, sitting on the
right side; and they were alarmed. 6But he said to them, “Do not be
alarmed; you are looking for Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has been
raised; he is not here. Look, there is the place they laid him. 7But
go, tell his disciples and Peter that he is going ahead of you to Galilee;
there you will see him, just as he told you.” 8So they went out and
fled from the tomb, for terror and amazement had seized them; and they said
nothing to anyone, for they were afraid.
P The gospel of the Lord. Praise
to you, O Christ.
Sermon
Silence for reflection follows the sermon. The assembly stands to proclaim the word of
God in song.
Hymn of the Day Verses
1-3
Prayers of Intercession
A During this season of Easter, we pray for
all who long for a new start, experience health and love beyond their expectations
and for the church, the world and all people in their need. A brief
silence.
Creating God, help us repair
broken relationships, to clean up our messes and debts and to ask for help when
we need it. God in your mercy, hear our
prayer.
Parent God, bless all who
are parents, the family and staff of the Grace Infant Care Center and all who
have created families. Help us to become
better at loving and receiving love from others. God in your mercy, hear our prayer.
God, you are the highest
authority. Help our civic leaders to
bring peace to a war torn world and to care for those who are vulnerable. Be with our bishops Elizabeth and Mark, our
pastor Megan and all the staff and leaders of our congregation. Help us to support the work and hobbies of
all who worship with us, so that we may draw closer to God in all that we do at
work and at home. God in your mercy, hear our prayer.
Loving God, help us to
have patience, compassion and listening ears for those who differ from us. Provide healing and hope for those whose
minds, bodies or spirits are in need of care.
We pray especially for those who care for the sick and support those who
are aging. Help us to live and
experience as much as we can while we await the day we will be reunited with
those we have lost. God in your mercy, hear our prayer.
For whom and what else do
the people of Grace pray?
(Please offer - silently or aloud- petitions to God. End spoken petitions with “God in your mercy.”)
P Our prayers rise like
incense and are held by a loving God who yearns for us to be our best. May we sleep well, worry less and live
convinced that God’s is on our side. Amen.
Offering "My Lord, What a Morning'"
An offering is gathered for the mission of the church,
including the care of those in need. After
the offering is gathered, the assembly stands.
Offering Prayer
A
Let us pray. God,
bless the all that we have to offer. May our financial support match the
generosity of our lives. Help us to be good
stewards of our financial and emotional investments. Amen.
Scripture in this
service is adapted from The Inclusive Bible: The First Egalitarian
Translation, by Priests for Equality.
2009, Sheed & Ward. Kindle Edition.
The traditional
Lutheran liturgy is from Sundays and Seasons.com. Copyright 2014 Augsburg
Fortress. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission under Augsburg Fortress
Liturgies Annual License #28429.
Hymns used with permission for worship and podcast
under OneLicense.net #A-723548.
Communion
P
It is indeed right, our duty and our
joy, that we should at all times and in all places give thanks and praise . . .
we praise your name and join their unending hymn:
On the night
in which he was betrayed, our Lord Jesus took bread, and gave thanks; broke it,
and gave it to his disciples, saying: Take and eat; this is my body, given for
you. Do this for the remembrance of me.
Again, after
supper, he took the cup, gave thanks, and gave it for all to drink, saying: This
cup is the new covenant in my blood, shed for you and for all people for the
forgiveness of sin. Do this for the remembrance of me.
The
Lord’s Prayer
C
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your
will be done, on earth as in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us
our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. Save us from the time of trial
and deliver us from evil. For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours, now
and forever. Amen
Blessing
Announcements
Sending Hymn Verses
1-3
Dismissal
A: Go in peace and serve our God.
C: Thanks be to God.
Postlude
Please join us for coffee and refreshments downstairs
in the Fellowship Hall.
To get to the Fellowship Hall, exit to the right of
the communion railing at the front of the church.
