EASTER SUNDAY with Debra Armein

ROCKBURN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
EASTER SUNDAY
April 17, 2022.
Worship Leader: Debra Armein    
Clerk of Session: Shirley McNaughton
Board of Managers: Robert Waller   
Treasurers: Sophie & Christine Caza                                
Worship Coordinator/Bulletins: Elizabeth Waller 450-827-2668         
Rockburn Presbyterian Website:   Marcelle Chabot www.rockburnpresbyterian.org
 
PRELUDE:                                  Chenaniah
 
PROCESSIONAL:                     “Thy Word”  

​CALL TO WORSHIP       
ALL TOGETHER:
Come, let us worship and bow down
Let us kneel before the Lord, our God and Maker
Come let us worship and bow down
For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture,
The flock under His care, the sheep of his hand,
 
OPENING Debra Armein

WELCOME
 OPENING PRAYER & THE LORD’S PRAYER  
Easter Proclamation  - Lighting of Candles
The light which the world tried to extinguish cannot be put out. Today we light the candles again, proclaiming the transforming power of God. As the light returns, we give thanks that God’s transforming love has been, is now, and will ever be at work within us. Today we celebrate: new life, new joy, new possibilities. Christ is alive and living among us!
As we light the candles, we acknowledge that there is still pain and suffering in the world, but we place our trust in God and in the way shown by Jesus Christ. In the midst of darkness, there is light. In the pain of death, there is life. In the face of what appear to us to be overwhelming odds, God is at work in us and in the world, working for justice and peace, compassion and love, and life abundant.                
 
 
All:   Christ is risen; Christ is risen in us, for wherever we gather            
          in his name, he is there.
(All candles are re-lit.)
All: Alleluia, Christ is risen; Christ is risen indeed!
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HYMN:    #260    Allelujah, give thanks to the Risen Lord

ANNOUNCEMENTS, BIRTHDAYS & ANNIVERSARIES OFFERING:       
To follow Co-vid protocol we have placed a collection box at the entrance.... if you wish to give. Thank you.
OFFERTORY PRAYER
HYMN:     #366   Jesus Joy of Loving Hearts

SCRIPTURE READING:        Luke 24:1-7, 13-49

Luke 24:1-49
New International Version
Jesus Has Risen

24 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.

9 When they came back from the tomb, they told all these things to the Eleven and to all the others. 10 It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the others with them who told this to the apostles. 11 But they did not believe the women, because their words seemed to them like nonsense. 12 Peter, however, got up and ran to the tomb. Bending over, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he went away, wondering to himself what had happened.

On the Road to Emmaus
13 Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles[a] from Jerusalem. 14 They were talking with each other about everything that had happened. 15 As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them; 16 but they were kept from recognizing him.

17 He asked them, “What are you discussing together as you walk along?”

They stood still, their faces downcast. 18 One of them, named Cleopas, asked him, “Are you the only one visiting Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?”

19 “What things?” he asked.

“About Jesus of Nazareth,” they replied. “He was a prophet, powerful in word and deed before God and all the people. 20 The chief priests and our rulers handed him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified him; 21 but we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. And what is more, it is the third day since all this took place. 22 In addition, some of our women amazed us. They went to the tomb early this morning 23 but didn’t find his body. They came and told us that they had seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive. 24 Then some of our companions went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but they did not see Jesus.”

25 He said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken! 26 Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?” 27 And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.

28 As they approached the village to which they were going, Jesus continued on as if he were going farther. 29 But they urged him strongly, “Stay with us, for it is nearly evening; the day is almost over.” So he went in to stay with them.

30 When he was at the table with them, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them. 31 Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, and he disappeared from their sight. 32 They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”

33 They got up and returned at once to Jerusalem. There they found the Eleven and those with them, assembled together 34 and saying, “It is true! The Lord has risen and has appeared to Simon.” 35 Then the two told what had happened on the way, and how Jesus was recognized by them when he broke the bread.

Jesus Appears to the Disciples
36 While they were still talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”

37 They were startled and frightened, thinking they saw a ghost. 38 He said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds? 39 Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.”

40 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and feet. 41 And while they still did not believe it because of joy and amazement, he asked them, “Do you have anything here to eat?” 42 They gave him a piece of broiled fish, 43 and he took it and ate it in their presence.

44 He said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms.”

45 Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures. 46 He told them, “This is what is written: The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, 47 and repentance for the forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. 48 You are witnesses of these things. 49 I am going to send you what my Father has promised; but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”
 
MEDITATION:          “Why is Easter Important?”

CLOSING HYMN:    #461   Be Thou My Vision

BENEDICTION & CHORAL AMEN
POSTLUDE
 
Announcements:                  Happy Easter!!!
 
Thank you Debra and our music team for leading us in worship today!
 
Update on Rockburn Pulpit Supply
April 24-Kevin Harvey                                                                
May 1- Nancy & Randy Campbell
May 8-Mother’s Day Gail MacGregor
May 15- Kevin Harvey
May 22-
May 29-