14.05.04 Easter 3A Bilingual

Song/Canto:  Entrada (Misa popular Nicaragüense)
Prayer/Oración

Welcome/Bienvenido
Milestones/Aconticimientos 
Song/Canto:  God grant them many years/Dios muchos años dales (Russian polychronia)
Procession/Procesión

Offerings/Ofrenda

Song:  Ofertorio (Misa popular Nicaragüense) 

Invitation to the table/Invitación a la mesa

Prayer of Thanksgiving/Acción de gracias

Sanctus:  (Misa popular Nicaragüense) 

Communion/Comunión

Song/Canto:  Comunión (Misa popular Nicaragüense) 

The Peace/La Paz
Canto:  Canto de esperanza (Argentina)*
Benediction/Bendición
Postlude/Posludio

*seasonal for Easter

Forces:
Soprano cantor
Tenor cantor
Tenor cantor/guitar/percussion
Tenor cantor/bass guitar/percussion
Percussion

4 de mayo de 2014 + May 4, 2014

Adorando Todos/as Juntos/as + All Together Worship

Song of Worship and Praise +

Canto de Adoración y Alabanza

Somos pueblo que camina + We are people on a journey

Somos pueblo que camina por la senda del dolor.

Acudamos jubilosos a la santa comunión.

God has sent the invitation to the humble and the poor.

Joyfully we come together at the holy feast of God.

Este pan que Dios nos brinda alimenta nuestra unión.

Acudamos jubilosos a la santa comunión.

Christ is ever present with us to unite us all in love.

Joyfully we come together at the holy feast of God.

Los sedientos de justicia buscan su liberación.

Acudamos jubilosos a la santa comunión.

Prayer + Oración

Welcome and Milestones +

Bienvenida y Acontecimientos

NOT ON PPT

5/5 Jan Schaeffer

5/7 Jaime Rodriguez

5/7 Ruben Trochez

5/7 Elide Luis

God grant them many years + Dios muchos años dales

THE EUCHARIST + LA EUCARISTIA

Offerings + Ofrendas

Song + Canto

Ofertorio Nicaragüense

Te ofrecemos, Padre nuestro, con el vino y con el pan

nuestras penas y alegrías,el trabajo nuestro afán.

Como el trigo de los campos bajo el signo de la cruz,

se transformen nuestras vidas en el cuerpo de Jesús.

Let us offer to the Mother, with the bread and with the wine,

all our joys and all our sorrows; all we are, O God, is thine.

Let the poor and heavy laden gather at the Savior’s sign,

where their grief will turn to gladness as the grapes are pressed to wine.

Te ofrecemos, Madre nuestro, con el vino y con el pan

nuestras penas y alegrías,el trabajo nuestro afán.

Estos dones son el signo del esfuerzo de unidad,

que nosotros realizamos en el campo y la ciudad.

Let us offer to the Father, with the bread and with the wine,

all our joys and all our sorrows; all we are, O God, is thine.

All your people here together bring you offerings of love,

joining with your whole creation, seeking liberty and peace.

Te ofrecemos, Oh Dios nuestro, con el vino y con el pan

nuestras penas y alegrías,el trabajo nuestro afán.

Invitation to the Table + Invitación a la Mesa

Prayer of Thanksgiving + Acción de gracias

Uno/a:  Dios habita en ustedes.

Todos/as:  Y también en ti.

One:  Come to the table with thankful hearts.

All:  We open our hearts to God and to one another.

READ THIS COLUMN One + Uno/a:  Now that same day two of the disciples were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem. They were talking with each other about everything that had happened. As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them; but they were kept from recognizing him. Jesus: “What are you discussing together as you walk along?” One + Uno/a:  They stood still, their faces downcast.  Cleophas:  “Are you the only one visiting Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?” Jesus:  “What things?” Disciple + Discipulo 1:  “About Jesus of Nazareth. He was a prophet, powerful in word and deed before God and all the people.  Disciple + Discipulo 2:  The chief priests and our rulers handed him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified him; but we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel.  Disciple + Discipulo 1:  And what is more, it is the third day since all this took place.  Disciple + Discipulo 2:  In addition, some of our women amazed us. They went to the tomb early this morning but didn’t find his body. They came and told us that they had seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive.  Disciple + Discipulo 1:  Then some of our companions went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but they did not see Jesus.” Jesus:  “How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?”  Uno/a + One:  Entonces, comenzando por Moisés y por todos los profetas, les explicó lo que se refería a él en todas las Escrituras. Al acercarse al pueblo adonde se dirigían, Jesús hizo como que iba más lejos. Pero ellos insistieron: Discipulos:  —Quédate con nosotros, que está atardeciendo; ya es casi de noche. Uno/a + One:  Así que entró para quedarse con ellos. Luego, estando con ellos a la mesa, tomó el pan, lo bendijo, lo partió y se lo dio.  [BLANK SLIDE HERE FOR WORDS OF INSTITUTION] One + Uno/a:  Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, and he disappeared from their sight. They asked each other, Disciples:  “Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?” One + Uno/a:  They got up and returned at once to Jerusalem. There they found the Eleven and those with them, assembled together and saying, “It is true! The Lord has risen and has appeared to Simon.” Then the two told what had happened on the way, and how Jesus was recognized by them when he broke the bread.

THIS COLUMN ON PPT Uno/a + One:  Aquel mismo día dos de los discipulos se dirigían a un pueblo llamado Emaús, a unos once kilómetros de Jerusalén. Iban conversando sobre todo lo que había acontecido.Sucedió que, mientras hablaban y discutían, Jesús mismo se acercó y comenzó a caminar con ellos; pero no lo reconocieron, pues sus ojos estaban velados. Jesús:  —¿Qué vienen discutiendo por el camino? Uno/a + One:  Se detuvieron, cabizbajos. Cleopas:  —¿Eres tú el único peregrino en Jerusalén que no se ha enterado de todo lo que ha pasado recientemente? Jesús:  —¿Qué es lo que ha pasado? Disciple + Discipulo 1:  —Lo de Jesús de Nazaret. Era un profeta, poderoso en obras y en palabras delante de Dios y de todo el pueblo.  Disciple + Discipulo 2:  Los jefes de los sacerdotes y nuestros gobernantes lo entregaron para ser condenado a muerte, y lo crucificaron; pero nosotros abrigábamos la esperanza de que era él quien redimiría a Israel. Disciple + Discipulo 1:  Es más, ya hace tres días que sucedió todo esto.  Disciple + Discipulo 2:  También algunas mujeres de nuestro grupo nos dejaron asombrados. Esta mañana, muy temprano, fueron al sepulcro pero no hallaron su cuerpo. Cuando volvieron, nos contaron que se les habían aparecido unos ángeles quienes les dijeron que él está vivo.  Disciple + Discipulo 1:  Algunos de nuestros compañeros fueron después al sepulcro y lo encontraron tal como habían dicho las mujeres, pero a él no lo vieron. Jesús:  —¡Qué torpes son ustedes —les dijo—, y qué tardos de corazón para creer todo lo que han dicho los profetas! ¿Acaso no tenía que sufrir el Cristo estas cosas antes de entrar en su gloria? One + Uno/a:  And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself. As they approached the village to which they were going, Jesus continued on as if he were going farther. But they urged him strongly, Disciples:  “Stay with us, for it is nearly evening; the day is almost over.” One + Uno/a:  So he went in to stay with them.  When he was at the table with them, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them.  [BLANK SLIDE HERE FOR WORDS OF INSTITUTION] Uno/a + One:  Entonces se les abrieron los ojos y lo reconocieron, pero él desapareció. Se decían el uno al otro: Discipulos:  —¿No ardía nuestro corazón mientras conversaba con nosotros en el camino y nos explicaba las Escrituras? Uno/a + One:  Al instante se pusieron en camino y regresaron a Jerusalén. Allí encontraron a los once y a los que estaban reunidos con ellos. «¡Es cierto! —decían—. El Señor ha resucitado y se le ha aparecido a Simón.»  Los dos, por su parte, contaron lo que les había sucedido en el camino, y cómo habían reconocido a Jesús cuando partió el pan.

Distribution of the Elements + Distribución de los Elementos

Communion Song + Canto de comunión

Comunión Nicaragüense

Todos/as + All:  Oh Dios, tu eres el pan que nos da la vida eterna.

O God, you are the bread which gives us life everlasting.

Uno/a + One:  Dijo Jesús cierto día predicando el Galilea:

Yo soy el Pan que da Vida anunciado en los Profetas.

Todos/as + All:  Oh Dios, tu eres el pan que nos da la vida eterna.

O God, you are the bread which gives us life everlasting.

One + Uno/a:  It is the will of our God that they who eat of this banquet

shall have life everlasting, and they shall never die.

Todos/as + All:  Oh Dios, tu eres el pan que nos da la vida eterna.

O God, you are the bread which gives us life everlasting.

Uno/a + One:  No dominará la meurte a los que coman y beban

de este pan y de este vino, que es comida verdadera.

Todos/as + All:  Oh Dios, tu eres el pan que nos da la vida eterna.

O God, you are the bread which gives us life everlasting.

One + Uno/a:  Here are the wine and the bread, they are my body and blood,

all who eat and drink of them shall have new life within you.

Todos/as + All:  Oh Dios, tu eres el pan que nos da la vida eterna.

O God, you are the bread which gives us life everlasting.

Uno/a + One:  Fatigados del camino por las ardientes arena

peregrina hoy tu pueblo demandando fortaleza.

Todos/as + All:  Oh Dios, tu eres el pan que nos da la vida eterna.

O God, you are the bread which gives us life everlasting.

Prayer + Oración

The Peace + La Paz

One + Uno/a:  The peace of Christ be with you all.

All + Todos/as:  And also with you.

Uno/a + One:  La paz de Cristo esté con ustedes.

Todos/as + All:  Y con tu espíritu.

Song + Canto

Canto de Esperanza + Song of Hope

¡Dios de la esperanza, danos gozo y paz!

Al mundo en crisis, habla tu verdad.

Dios de la justicia, mándanos tu luz,

Luz y esperanza en la oscuridad.

Oremos por la paz,

Cantemos de tu amor.

Luchemos por la paz,

Fieles a Ti, O Dios.

May the God of hope go with us every day,

Filling all our lives with love and joy and peace.

May the God of justice speed us on our way,

Bringing light and hope to every land and race.

Praying, let us work for peace,

Singing, share our joy with all,

Working for a world that’s new,

Faithful when we hear Christ’s call.

Blessing + Bendición

Postlude + Posludio

14.05.04 Easter 3A Reflection

The journey by which we discover God is also the journey by which we discover, or uncover, our true self hidden in God. It is a journey that we all have to make.

~Esther de Waal, from Living with Contradiction

14.05.04 Easter 3A English

Song:  We worship Christ (Patrick Matsikenyiri, Mozambique)* 

Call to Worship
Song:  It all depends on where I’m going (Colin Gibson)
Prayer of Confession
Song of Praise:  Themba Amen (Sunrise Hospice, Themba, South Africa)*

Prayer of the Day

Gospel Acclamation (William Ramirez, El Salvador)

Gospel Reading: John 20:19-31

Sermon
Song:  O sons and daughters (Jean Tisserand, O FILII ET FILIAE, French)
Affirmation: Little resurrections

Prayer Song:  Peace before us (based on a Navajo prayer / David Haas)*
Silent Meditation
Prayers of the People
Announcements

Songs:  You came down (Cameroon)

Jesus Christ is risen (Ghana)

*seasonal for Easter

Forces:
Soprano
Piano

May 4 2014

3^rd Sunday of Easter

Please stand, all who are able.

Song

One:  We worship Christ!

All:  //We worship Christ!//

There is no one who will ever be like him.

One:  There is no one who will ever be like him.

All:  There is no one who will ever be like him.

One:  Christ is alive!

All:  //Christ is alive!//

There is no one who will ever be like him.

One:  There is no one who will ever be like him.

All:  There is no one who will ever be like him.

One:  Christ conquered death!

All:  //Christ conquered death!//

There is no one who will ever be like him.

One:  There is no one who will ever be like him.

All:  There is no one who will ever be like him.

One:  Hallelujah!

All:  //Hallelujah!//

There is no one who will ever be like him.

Call to Worship

NOT ON PPT
We gather here to celebrate life's beauty and find healing for its pain;
to honour our kinship with each other and with the earth,
and to be inspired to create a more compassionate world,
beginning with ourselves. 

One:  God grant us the gift of dreaming:
All:  The dream of a world enjoying its extraordinary colour and beauty;
not viewing life through tunnel-vision, grey-tinted spectacles.
One:  The dream of breadth and variety in glorious harmony;
not definition through division, prejudice and ignorance.
All:  The dream of acceptance and inclusion;
not judgement and exclusion.
One:  The dream of your love and humour;
not our idolatry and self-righteousness.
All:  The dream of 'we might'; not 'we can not'.

—silent reflection—

One:  God give us the vision and imagination to dream
and enable us to make the dream a reality.

Please be seated

Song

1.  It all depends on where I'm going
if I reach my anywhere,
but this I'm surely, surely knowing,
that I'll never leave God's care;
it all depends on when I'm travelling,
maybe now or maybe then,
but the Son of God will lead me
through each where and why and when.

2.  It all depends on how I'm choosing
for the life that is in me,
but I will never lose the hand of Christ,
the one who walks with me;
if I stumble or I falter
he will steady me once more,
for there is no darkest pathway
that we cannot both explore.

3.  It all depends on who comes with me
if I break or if I bend,
but this I'm surely, surely knowing,
God will be there at the end
in the laughter and the sadness,
in the pleasure or the pain,
by my side and all about me
God's own Spirit will remain. 

Prayer of Confession

NOT ON PPT

When we were dead in our sins, God made us alive with Christ.

Through our baptism, we were buried with Christ, so too are we raised with him by the power of God – so that we too may live a new life.

One:  Do you accept God’s call to resist evil, injustice and oppression in whatever guise they present themselves?

All:  We do.

One:    Do you truly and earnestly recognize your human limits and brokenness and desire to grow in grace?

All:  We do.

One:  Do you accept Jesus as the symbol of unconditional grace, the source of your freedom to act – to act boldly – in this world?

All:  We do.

—Silent reflection—

One:  Merciful God, we pray that as we confront our weakness and limitations, we will continually be confronted by your grace.

All:  Strengthen us when we doubt;

challenge us when we become too self-assured.

One:  Let us struggle for justice and meaning and love;

and be filled and surrounded by your spirit.

All:  And, O God, we pray especially that you will at all times

remind us that we are each others',

and that all of us are yours.

Amen.

Please stand, all who are able.

Song of Praise

Amen!

Prayer of the Day

NOT ON PPT

Living God,
long ago, faithful women
proclaimed the good news
of Jesus' resurrection,
and the world was changed forever.
Teach us to keep faith with them,
that our witness may be as bold,
our love as deep,
and our faith as true. Amen.

Gospel Acclamation

All:  //Aleluya, aleluya, aleluya.//

//Aleluya, aleluya, aleluya.//

One:  The boundless universe belongs to Jesus.

Christ is the King of all creation.

All:  //Aleluya, aleluya, aleluya.//

//Aleluya, aleluya, aleluya.//

Gospel Reading

John 20:19-31

When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you.” After he said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father-Mother God has sent me, so I send you.” When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.” But Thomas (who was called the Twin), one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands, and put my finger in the mark of the nails and my hand in his side, I will not believe.”

A week later his disciples were again in the house, and Thomas was with them. Although the doors were shut, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you.” Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here and see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it in my side. Do not doubt but believe.” Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!” Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe.” Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book. But these are written so that you may come to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Chosen One of God, and that through believing you may have life in his name.

Reader:  The gospel of Jesus Christ.

All:  Thanks be to God!

Sermon

Please stand, all who are able.

Song

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.

O sons and daughters, let us sing

the flower of heaven, alive as spring,

o’er death today rose triumphing,

Alleluia.

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.

When Thomas first the tidings heard,

he counted what they said absurd,

but seeing Christ, his faith was stirred.

Alleluia.

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.

How blessed are they who have not seen

and yet whose faith has constant been;

for they eternal life shall win,

Alleluia.

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.

On this most holy day of days,

our hearts and voices, Christ, we raise

to you in jubilee and praise.

Alleluia.

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.

Affirmation: Little Resurrections

One:  We need to remember, O God,

that resurrection is not just a mysterious event

that once happened long ago.

We need to know - to live -

the truth of resurrection for ourselves,

and for our world,

daily.

And so we pray that we and our world

may recognise and embrace the little resurrections

that are always all around us,

All:  and may we give ourselves to be

life-carriers wherever we are able.

One:  Where lives are lost because human greed and power-mongering

drive people into poverty and war

All:  may resurrection be found

in simplicity, generosity and peace-making.

One:  Where people are imprisoned by the sickness in their bodies

or in the hearts of those who enslave them,

may resurrection be found

All:  in community, in compassion,

and in our constant striving for freedom for all.

One:  Where women and men are kept from abundant life

through unjust policies and unequal opportunities,

All:  may resurrection be found

in gracious laws and open doors.

One:  Where the earth and its creatures are destroyed

through expediency and carelessness,

All:  may resurrection be found

in honouring all life and in mindful living.

One:  And so, wherever life may seem to be lost,

may we remain people of hope,

of justice and of grace

and may we become skilled at seeing and unleashing

your little resurrections.

All:  Amen.

Please be seated

Prayer Song

Peace before us,

peace behind us,

peace under our feet.

Peace within us,

peace over us,

let all around us be peace.

Christ before us,

Christ behind us,

Christ under our feet.

Christ within us,

Christ over us,

let all around us be Christ.

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.

Silent Meditation

Prayers of the People

News of the People

Not on ppt:

Welcome cards

Service concludes with bilingual celebration

Please stand, all who are able.

Song

///You rose up that we may have love,///

Hallelujah, forevermore.

///You rose up that we may have peace,///

Hallelujah, forevermore.

///You rose up that we may have joy,///

Hallelujah, forevermore.

///You rose up that we may have life,///

Hallelujah, forevermore.

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//Jesus Christ is risen!  Jesus Christ is risen!  Yesu!//

//Christ has conquered death!  Christ has conquered death!  Yesu!//

//Sin has done its worst!  Sin has done its worst!  Yesu!//

//Come and worship!  Come and worship!  Yesu!//

//Hallelujah!  Hallelujah!  Yesu!//