8/16/2023 0 Comments Every moment holyIt is indeed a profound spiritual experience to know and feel myself so totally in God's hands. This is what I have wanted all my life from my youth.īut now there is a difference the initiative is entirely with God. In the winepress of your everlasting light.Īll: You have made all things well, O Christ!Ĭlick here to download a PDF of this liturgy at the Every Moment Holy website.Īnd click here to view Every Moment Holy, Volume II in the Rabbit Room Bookstore.More than ever I find myself in the hands of God. The closing section might also be memorized and prayed as often as one is confronted with any works of death yet briefly evident in this world. Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. Us new birth into a living hope through the Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord In him let us rejoice and be glad in his salvation.” “Surely this is our God we trusted in him,Īnd he saved us. The Sovereign Lord will wipe away the tearsįrom all faces. That enfolds all peoples, the sheet that coversĪll nations he will swallow up death forever. On this mountain he will destroy the shroud I am the resurrection, and the life: he that You have made all things well, O Lord of Life! Till all the brokenness that breaks our world Restored, renamed till ones we’ve loved and lost Till every sorrow we’ve sustained is redeemed, Till every fiber, every atom, every particle in play, We know that Christ, being raised from theĭead, will never die again death no longerĮvery inch of earth, all the span of heaven,īe worked through all the fabric of creation, In God, will rise to live, eternal, every one.įourth reader: Hear the word of the Lord: Is but the long death rattle of death itself. The long exhale of death’s last expiring breath. Rattling gasp that signals death’s defeat.Ĭhrist’s heel is planted on death’s neck. Roll up death like an old, disintegrating scroll,īind it with iron bands, and cast it into flames.Īll sorrows we endure for now are but the We await your speaking of the word that will Is crying out for, yearning for, reaching for, In this reconstructed temple of Creation.ĭeath’s last stand, await your appearance Of the healing and remaking of the world, Raise your scepter, declare the advent of the age Leader: Now, O King of All of Space and Time, The Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, Remade by Christ into the door that opensįor he has rescued us from the dominion ofĭarkness and brought us into the kingdom of Outworking of its infinite glad implications. The steady progress of the resurrection, nowĪdvancing, one day to be made visible in the full His power to harm shattered for all eternity His palsied grasp, his impotence unmasked, Promise, O children of God, hear and know:ĭeath will surely die forever, his shoddy works Will possess no lasting fame the works ofĭeath will win no glory for its name. The final splintering of that dark night, death Pierced through by the first dawning of your You have made all things well, Eternal King!ĭeath’s dark shroud has been rent ragged and Its power to terrorize God’s people foreverĭestroyed by God’s own passage through it. Of the tide that high water mark now fading,Īs death’s dominion ebbs out for all time, Itself, like the last lapping wave at the turning Willing sacrifice, you pushed death back upon You swallowed death for us, and by that act of Swallow you, in death’s black waters, O Christ.īut going under that flood, you drank deathĭown like a river. Has brought life and immortality to light Revealed through the appearing of our Savior,Ĭhrist Jesus, who has destroyed death and The beginning of time, but it has now been This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before Second reader: Hear the word of the Lord: Perfect justice and perfect mercy were met Might move in sympathy to save and shelter us. Were despoiled and wrecked by sin and death, The weight of grief, subjected to futility,įor it was your intention from creation’s dawn, In a long bondage bereft of hope, bowed by Once endured the cringing lives of slaves, Who holds the power of death-that is, theĭevil-and free those who all their lives were Too shared in their humanity so that by his Since the children have flesh and blood, he The prelude prayer may be read aloud by the leader or silently contemplated by the participants before the first scripture reading. We strongly encourage reading it together with a small group of friends and/or family.įour readers should be designated in advance for the scripture readings. The text is provided here in this blog post, as well as a link to download a PDF if you’d like to print it out or save it offline. As we enter into Holy Week, we offer you this liturgy from Every Moment Holy, Volume IIto be read and relished on Easter Sunday.
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