5 April 2015
Collects
Prayers
developed from the daily readings
Sunday 5
April 2015
EASTER DAY
Christ is risen, Hallelujah!
There is no Morning Prayer today since this is one of
the three times a year when Holy Communion must be celebrated. It defines
people’s identity as communicant members of the church.
Sunday 5
April 2015
EASTER DAY
Evening
Prayer
Exodus 12: 1 – 14
This is the story of the Passover with Moses and Aaron
in Egypt receiving God’s instructions to the Hebrews so that the Lord would
pass over their homes and they would be saved. There is too the instruction
that this feast of the Passover should be a perpetual celebration.
Psalm 113
This is a psalm of praise to the Lord forever. What
other God is there that raises the poor from the dust and has them sit with the
powerful and renowned? Who is it that fulfils us like this God?
Romans 6: 3 – 14
We are united with Christ through baptism and through
his death. Our old selves have been crucified. We no longer react to impulse
and sin. We are raised from that dead powerless position. We know that Christ
cannot die again. Instead he lives for God and we too are now “dead to sin and
alive to God through Christ Jesus” (v.11).
Paul charges us therefore, to not let sin take hold
but to present ourselves to God as someone who has come from death into life.
We can present ourselves as instruments, and tools of God’s righteousness. Sin
can’t win! We are now under the grace of God.
Collect for
Evening Prayer
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Hallelujah
wonderful, almighty God. You have brought us from sin and given us a place with
you, as yours safe in your loving care. We rejoice. Keep our hearts and minds
open and dedicated to your service so that we are instruments of your
righteousness and grace spreading your truth, sincerity, faithfulness and mercy
in all the parts of our lives through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord and the
power of your Holy Spirit. Amen.
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