Christ Church Sandown

Worship at home on Easter Day

Welcome to this service for use at home on Easter Day.  Happy Easter!

If you are reading this before 10am we would encourage you to sing the hymns "Jesus Christ is Risen Today" and "Thine be the glory" outside your home at that time.  Click here for the words to these two hymns.

The service order below includes YouTube links to Mark’s message for the day, an Easter communion celebration led by Mark from his home and links to songs/hymns which include lyrics so that you are able to join in (if you know the song and have a favourite version you are welcome to link to that instead).  The songs chosen are typical of those we would generally sing on this day at Christ Church.

Acclamation:  The Lord is risen. Alleluia!   Please feel free to shout aloud “He is risen indeed.  Alleluia!”

Opening song: “He has risen”  Here is a link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwLR1BGmZSw

Opening prayer:  We praise you today O lord for your coming into the world to be our saviour.  We praise you today that you did not stay in the grave but rose again from the dead. We praise you today that because you live you are the resurrection and the life for all who trust in you, that death has lost its sting and that we shall not perish but have eternal life.  Amen.

Reading: In your bible please read the passage set for the day which is John 20:1-18.

Worship songs:  There are two songs this morning:
“The moon and the stars they wept”.  Here is the link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj8-jb0mgKs; and
“Happy Day” Here is the link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ixN8BuqVmQ

Message:  Here is the link to Mark’s Easter Day message: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUhE9DEqFco

Hymn:  “See what a morning”.  Here is a link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0aKC3KxTb0

Prayers: The communion service today includes the collect for the day and the Lord’s prayer.  We though spend time interceding for others.  You may wish to pray for:

Those in leadership at this time in responding to Corvid-19, central and local government, business leaders, the Queen and royal family;
Those who are key workers, including medical staff and carers;
Those who have the virus at home, those ill in hospital including those there for non-virus related reasons;
Those who mourn;

For those in self-isolation particularly those who live alone. 
For family members and friends and specific concerns you may have.

A prayer you may wish to use often attributed to St Francis of Assisi is set out below:

Lord, make us instruments of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let us sow love;
 where there is injury, pardon;
 where there is doubt, faith;
 where there is despair, hope;
 where there is darkness, light;
 where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master,
 grant that we may not so much seek to be consoled
 as to console,
 to be understood as to understand;
 to be loved as to love.
 For it is in giving that we receive,
 it is in pardoning that we are pardoned
 and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen

Hymn:  “Jesus Christ is risen today”.  Here is a link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6sj9ljVsfk

Easter Communion:  Here is the link to this part of our service.  The video contains all the words that you will need to join in: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MR45yD0LVE

Closing hymn:  Our final hymn can be none other than this one.  You may like to wave a flag or some other item whilst singing this song.  “Thine be the glory”.  Here is the link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaoV5w2Qfag

A final pause: Take a moment to consider what Jesus went through for you in this last week as we have followed him to the cross and now to his resurrection.  Consider your response to God and how he would have you live for him from now on.  We go out in peace to love and serve the Lord in the name of Christ.  Amen.