Song Sheet April 19th
Entrance: Three Days
Three days our world was broken; the Lord of life lay dead. “Take up your cross,” he told us who followed where he led. Would we now hang in torment with thieves on every side, our Passover shattered, our hope crucified? Three days we hid in silence, in bitter fear and grief. Three days we clung together where he had washed our feet.
Three days and on the third day, the women came at dawn. His tomb, they said, was empty, his broken body gone. Who could believe their story? The dead do not arise, yet he walks among us, and with our own eyes we’ve seen him at this table; we’ve shared his bread and wine. Hearts burning bright within us, we’ve seen his glory shine.
Three days our world was broken and in an instant healed, God’s covenant of mercy in mystery revealed. Two thousand years are one day in God’s eternal sight, and yesterday’s sorrows are this day’s delight. Though still Christ’s body suffers, pierced daily by the sword, yet death has no dominion: the risen Christ is Lord!
Offertory: Two Were Bound for Emmaus
Two were bound for Emmaus, disheartened and lost; all their hope for the future had been nailed to a cross. Love unknown then walked beside them, come back from the dead, and they knew he was risen in the breaking of bread.
On the Sea of Tiberius, when the night was nearly gone and their toil seemed so useless, not one fish had they caught, from the shore the stranger called to them, “Cast your net, friends, once more”. And they filled it to bursting, but the net was not torn.
Then they knew it was Jesus and they hastened into shore; bread and fish for their breakfast from the hands of their Lord. “O Peter, if you love me you must care for my sheep; if you follow your Shepherd, then a shepherd you’ll be.”
When the road makes us weary, when our labor seems but loss, when the fire of faith weakens and too high seems the cost, let the Church turn to its risen Lord, who for us bore the cross, and we’ll find our hearts burning at the sound of his voice.
Communion Solo: In the Breaking of the Bread
Recessional: Alleluia! Alleluia!
Alleluia! Alleluia! Hearts to heaven and voices raise; Sing to God a hymn of gladness, sing to God a hymn of praise. He who on the cross as Savior for the world’s salvation bled, Jesus Christ, the king of glory, now is risen from the dead.
Now the iron bars are broken, Christ from death to life is born, glorious life, and life immortal, on this resurrection morn; Christ has triumphed, and we conquer by his mighty enterprise, we with him to life eternal by his resurrection rise.
Alleluia! Alleluia! Glory be to God on high; Alleluia to the savior, who has won the victory; Alleluia to the Spirit, font of love and sanctity; Alleluia! Alleluia! To the triune majesty.
