Worship for April 20, 2025

Thank you for joining us for this live stream (or recording, as the case may be) of Sunday worship. May it bless you! You may need to click “Play” to launch the stream, which will be live around 9:50 AM.

Welcome to the live stream of worship from Church of the Holy Cross for Sunday, April 20, 2025. You will find the service outline below, and you may download and print the PDF to follow more easily. 

WE GATHER TO WORSHIP GOD

Prelude: Fanfare and Statement on “Llanfair”                                                Kayleen Yuda

Lighting of the Candles

Ringing of the Bell

Welcome                            Rev. Dr. Diane Weible

*Call to Worship             Jennifer Tanouye

Leader:   This is the day that God has made;
People:  Let us rejoice and be glad in it.
All:           We gather today to shout Alleluia!
                  Christ is risen; he is risen indeed.

Leader:   Out of the doom of death and despair,
People:  Victory comes, glory appears.
All:           We gather today to shout Alleluia!
                  Christ is risen; he is risen indeed.

Leader:   We shall live, witness, and recount the deeds
People: Of the God whose love endures forever.
All:           We gather today to shout Alleluia!
                  Christ is risen; he is risen indeed.

* Hymn #233: Christ the Lord is Risen Today

*Invocation                       Jennifer Tanouye

O, Redeeming God,  Like Mary of Magdala weeping at the tomb, we, too, have witness the wonders of your work with our own teary eyes. In this hour, O God, elevate us in Christ and with the power of the Holy Spirit, so that others may be awakened through our preaching and proclaiming the good news: news of healing, peace, justice, and community for all people.  Amen.

Please be seated

WE SHARE THE WORD OF GOD

Anthem: Low in the Grave He Lay    Kayleen Yuda

Time with the Children          Rev. Dr. Diane Weible

Scripture: Romans 6:3-11         Jennifer Tanouye
Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? Therefore we have been buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.
For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin. For whoever has died is freed from sin. But if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. The death he died, he died to sin, once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Luke 24:1-12But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb, taking the spices that they had prepared.  They found the stone rolled away from the tomb,  but when they went in, they did not find the body.While they were perplexed about this, suddenly two men in dazzling clothes stood beside them.  The women were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, ‘Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen.Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee,  that the Son of Man must be handed over to sinners, and be crucified, and on the third day rise again.’  Then they remembered his words,  and returning from the tomb, they told all this to the eleven and to all the rest.  Now it was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them who told this to the apostles.  But these words seemed to them an idle tale, and they did not believe them. But Peter got up and ran to the tomb; stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths by themselves; then he went home, amazed at what had happened.

Sermon: Remember       Rev. Dr. Diane Weible

WE RESPOND IN WORD AND DEED

Pastoral Prayer              Rev. Dr. Diane Weible

Please join in the Lord’s Prayer    
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 debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever and ever. Amen

* Hymn #237: I Come to the Garden Alone

Please be seated

Call to Offering                Jennifer Tanouye

The gifts that we bring to this community compound and create resurrection power, helping us to awaken wholeness in the broken, strength in the weakened, and liberation for all living in the midst of injustice. Let us share our generosity with each other and the community.

Offertory: Easter Joy      Kayleen Yuda

* Doxology
Praise God from whom all blessings flow,
Praise Him all creatures here below
Praise Him above ye heavenly host
Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost – Amen

*Offertory Prayer          Jennifer Tanouye

For the wondrous ways this offering will bless this community, help us nurture caring relationships with our neighbors, and do our part to liberate all who are experiencing oppression, we dedicate these gifts.

Let this offering, and the works of our hands and feet, be the resurrection we need to see in the world.

*Hymn #240: Jesus Christ is Risen Today

Announcements             Rev. Dr. Diane Weible

Benediction                      Rev. Dr. Diane Weible

Postlude: Risen to Victory       Kayleen Yuda

Permissions

Liturgy from the Tomb Service Prayers for Easter Sunday Year C were written by Rev. Mia M. McClain, the Associate Minister at Myers Park Baptist Church in Charlotte, NC and a member of the Southern Conference UCC.
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Fanfare and Statement on “Llanfair”
Edward Broughton
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Christ the Lord is Risen Today           
Charles Wesley, 1739
Tune: EASTER HYMN
Arr. From Lyra Davidica, 1708
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Low in the Grave He Lay
Robert Lowry
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I Come to the Garden Alone
C. Austin Miles, 1912
Tune: GARDEN
C. Austin Miles, 1912
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Easter Joy
George Blake
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Jesus Christ is Risen Today
Tune: LLANFAIR
Robert Williams, 1817
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Risen to Victory
Tom Birchwood
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Important Dates

Today—April 20, 2025 – Deacons Meeting after worship services

Mondays, 11:30 a.m. –Pickleball lessons; contact Connie 808-936-7534 or
Ruth at rnduponte07@gmail.com to sign up.

Tuesdays, 3:00 p.m. Bible Study in person and via Zoom in the Pastor’s Study:
        ® John 20:19-31

Wednesdays, 12 noon –Pickleball lessons; contact Connie 808-936-7534 or
Ruth at rnduponte07@gmail.com to sign up.