2025-04-20-Service
Summerlea United Church
225 50th Ave, Lachine, Québec, H8T2T7, Canada. 514-634-2651


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Sunday, April 20, 2025

Easter Sunday


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Alleluja

Solo by Elin Thordardottir

(From "Exultate Jubilate" by Mozart)
("Rejoice, Resound with Joy")




Written TEXT.



Jesus Christ Is Risen Today
(VU 155)

Jesus Christ is risen today, Hallelujah
Our triumphant holy day, Hallelujah!
Who did once upon the cross Hallelujah!
Suffer to redeem our loss. Hallelujah!

Hymns of praise then let us sing Hallelujah!
Unto Christ our heavenly King, Hallelujah!
Who endured the cross and grave, Hallelujah!
Sinners to redeem and save. Hallelujah!





But the pains which he endured, Hallelujah!
Our salvation have procured; Hallelujah!
Now above the sky he's King, Hallelujah!
Where the angels ever sing. Hallelujah!

Sing we to our God above, Hallelujah!
Praise eternal as his love; Hallelujah!
Praise him, all ye heavenly host, Hallelujah!
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Hallelujah!





Christ is alive!
(VU 158)

Christ is alive! Let Christians sing.
The cross stands empty to the sky.
Let streets and homes with praises ring.
Love, drowned in death, shall never die.



Christ is alive! No longer bound
To distant years in Palestine,
But saving, healing, here and now,
And touching every place and time.

In every insult, rift, and war
Where color, scorn or wealth divide,
Christ suffers still, yet loves the more,
And lives, where even hope has died.



Women and men, in age and youth,
Can feel the Spirit, hear the call,
And find the way, the life, the truth,
Revealed in Jesus, freed for all.

Christ is alive, and comes to bring
Good news to this and every age,
Till earth and sky and ocean ring
With joy, with justice, love, and praise.






Art by Eva










Psalm 23 (VU 749)

R: My shepherd is the Lord;
nothing indeed shall I want.

Voices United TEXT

Prayer


The Spring Has Come
(VU 187)

The spring has come,
Let all the Church be part of it!
The world has changed,
And God is at the heart of it!
New light, new day,
New color after winter grey,
New light, new day,
The spring has come,
Let all the Church be part of it!



The sun is warm,
Let all God's children play in it!
The world expands,
Let's spread the Gospel Way in it!
New leaf, new thrust,
New greening for the love of Christ,
New leaf, new thrust,
The sun is warm,
Let all God's children play in it!


The spring has come,
New people are the flowers of it!
Through wind and rain,
New life is in the showers of it!
New bud, new shoot,
New hope will bear the Spirit's fruit,
New bud, new shoot,
The spring has come,
New people are the flowers of it!




-- Offering --
Prayer for the Offering
(VU 188)

God of grace and glory,
by the death and resurrection of your Beloved Child
your reign of wholeness has been unleashed
within our bent and broken world.
Open us to your empowering grace
that we may be bearers of your world-redeeming love;
through the resurrected Christ,
our dignity, our power, and our peace. Amen



What Can I Do?
(MV 191)

What can I Do? What can I bring?
What can I say? What can I sing?
I'll sing with joy. I'll say a prayer.
I'll bring my love. I'll do my share.
(sung twice)







Sing a Happy Hallelujah
(VU 224)

Sing a happy hallelujah,
Sing it out with heart and style,
We're the echo of God's laughter,
We're the image of God's smile.
Hallelujah, all creation, Hallelujah, everyone!
Hallelujah, all creation, Hallelujah, everyone!



We're the proof of God's good humour,
We're the twinkle in God's eye,
Made to shine, reflect the glory,
Given light and space to fly.
Hallelujah, all creation, Hallelujah, everyone!
Hallelujah, all creation, Hallelujah, everyone!

Sarah laughed at God's good timing,
Mary sang and David danced,
Jesus smiled and hugged the children,
So is life for us enhanced.
Hallelujah, all creation, Hallelujah, everyone!
Hallelujah, all creation, Hallelujah, everyone!


Every day sing hallelujah!
We are loved, though so absurd,
Human, foolish, chosen people,
God still takes us at our word!
Hallelujah, all creation, hallelujah, everyone!
Hallelujah, all creation, hallelujah, everyone!


Commission

Thank you, God, for you love, your light and
Christ Jesus!
Let us go out now, and marvel at this new world!
We go and share this joy of the Easter morning.
Bring this joy and this light everywhere
you will go today!
It is Easter - Our God is Alive!
Alive and acting powerfully in the world.
Trust in God, go in peace!
We leave this place and go out to work at God's
kingdom in the world.
You are so blessed! Go out and do not fear!
Amen.






Halle, Halle, Halle
(VU 958, sung twice)

Halle, halle, hallelujah!
Halle, halle, hallelujah!
Halle, halle, hallelujah!
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!



- Choral Postlude -
I Cannot Tell
Ken Bible

I cannot tell why He, the King of Heaven,
Should leave the peace of all eternity,
Why God himself should lay aside His splendour
To leave the Father's side
And come to me.
But this I know;
Our silence filled with singing,
And all our darkness fled from heaven's light
When Christ the Lord, so human yet so holy,
In love was born a child for me that holy night...






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