All services are gathering over Zoom this week.

10am Service. The booklet can be viewed and download here (PDF). All resources are below.

7pm The Empty Tomb – a service holding a space for the post-resurrection low in which we acknowledge our shared experience of loss over the past year. The booklet can be viewed and downloaded here (PDF).

Resources mentioned in the 10am Service booklet.

All recordings of music and hymns are by St Mark’s Choir (and friends) unless otherwise stated.

​Introit – Cantate Domino Claudio Monteverdi, sung by St Mark’s Choir

Singing bowl – mixed by Caitlin Thomson 2020

Opening Hymn – The Day of Resurrection St John of Damascus (c.750) trans JM Neale (1818-1966); Tune: Ellacombe; sung by the choir of St Martin in the Fields

Peruvian Gloria Traditional, sung by the St Mark’s Choir

Incidental Music –  played by David Willington

Sermon – Shan Rush (PDF to be uploaded)

Prayers of the people – David Price (PDF Version)

Offertory Hymn – God of my faith Words: Colin Ferguson (born 1937) Tune: Anima Christi; sung by the St Mark’s Choir

Communion Chant – In the Lord I’ll be ever Thankful Taizé, sung by the St Mark’s Choir

Final Hymn – Praise be for life Words: Eve Saunders Tune: Woodlands; sung by the St Mark’s choir

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Voluntary – In Dir ist Freude JS Bach, played by Josh Stephens

7pm Night Service

The Empty Tomb – a service holding a space for the post-resurrection low in which we acknowledge our shared experience of loss over the past year. The booklet can be viewed and downloaded here (PDF).

We gather this evening in the wake of the resurrection.

In the empty tomb, we encounter the loss of Jesus –

 

There is no body to care for

No marker at which to mourn

Just this empty tomb

He is risen!

But He is not here

And when he appears, we do not recognise him.

Even as we celebrate the resurrection

It is ok to mourn Jesus

It is ok to feel his absence

And to worry that we will not see him again

And in this empty tomb,

we share in grief for all we have lost,

for those who have passed,

for all who accompanied them,

for all who were unable to accompany them,

and for all who have not had the opportunity

to mourn their loved ones as they had wished.

All hymns and songs recorded and licensed under ONE LICENSE A-632945 and CCLI 887387. Recordings by St Martin in the Fields used with permission.