Saturday
Evening
Jesus said:
‘I am the resurrection and the life.
Whoever has faith in me shall live,
even though he dies;
and no one who lives and has faith in me
shall ever die.’
St John 11: 25, 26
2 Collect of the Day Daily Prayer
3 Song of Praise
Romans 6: 9 - 11
1 Corinthians 15: 20 - 22
1 Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed.
2 So we who observe the festival
must not use the old leaven,
the leaven of depravity and wickedness,
but only the unleavened bread
which is sincerity and truth.
3 Christ, once raised from the dead,
is never to die again:
he is no longer under the dominion of death.
4 When he died, he died to sin, once for all,
and now that he lives, he lives to God
5 In the same way
you must regard yourselves as dead to sin
and alive to God, in union with Christ Jesus.
6 Christ was raised to life –
the firstfruits of the harvest of the dead.
7 For since it was a man
who brought death into the world,
a man also brought resurrection of the dead.
8 As in Adam all die,
so in Christ all will be brought to life.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit:
as it was in the beginning, is now,
and will be for ever. Amen.
4 Psalm(s) said or sung
6 Silence
7 Song of Praise
1 In Christ Jesus the life-giving law of the Spirit
has set us free from the law of sin and death.
2 All who are led by the Spirit of God
are sons of God.
The Spirit we have received
is not a spirit of slavery,
3 leading us back into a life of fear,
but a Spirit of adoption,
enabling us to cry ‘Abba! Father!’
4 The Spirit of God affirms to our spirit
that we are God’s children;
and if children, then heirs,
heirs of God
5 and fellow-heirs with Christ;
but we must share his sufferings
if we are also to share his glory.
6 The sufferings we now endure
bear no comparison with the glory,
as yet unrevealed, which is in store for us.
7 The created universe is waiting
with eager expectation
for God’s children to be revealed.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit:
as it was in the beginning, is now,
and will be for ever.
Amen.
9 Thanksgivings and
Intercessions
Prayers for the season
10 Final Collect
Almighty Father,
whose Son Jesus Christ
is the Way, the Truth, the Life:
keep us upright in the way,
faithful to the truth
and eager for the life;
until our lives
are a perfect image
of his eternal love,
who is alive and reigns with you
in the unity of the Spirit,
one God, now and for ever. Amen.
Abide with us, Lord,
for evening approaches
and the day is almost over.
Abide with us, Lord,
for the days are hastening on
and we hasten on with them.
Abide with us, Lord,
and with all your faithful people,
making yourself known
in the breaking of the word and of the bread.
Abide with us, Lord,
until the day-star rises
and the morning light appears,
and we shall live with you for ever and ever.
Amen.
11 Conclusion
Let us bless the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
The God of peace,
who brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus,
the great Shepherd of the sheep,
through the blood of an eternal covenant,
make us perfect in all goodness
so that we may do his will.
May he create in us what is pleasing to him;
through Jesus Christ,
to whom be glory for ever and ever!
Amen.
Extracts from the Book of Common Order of the Church of Scotland 2nd ed. 1996 ISBN 0 7152 0721 0 © Panel on Worship of the Church of Scotland 1994
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