Prayer Service Season of Easter Resurrection Theme

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Prayer Service Season of EasterResurrection
Theme

• The Easter Season begins during the Easter vigil
  Mass and ends on Pentecost Sunday.

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• Mary Magdalene meets the Risen Jesus
• As the Paschal Candle/school candle is lit
• Sing This is the Day Alive-O 6 p268

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• This is the Day
• Sing, sing, sing alleluia,
• This is the day the Lord has made.
• Dance, dance, dance. Alleluia
• This is the day the Lord has made
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• 1. Let us rejoice and be glad,
• This is the day the Lord has made,
• Let us rejoice and be glad,
• This is the day. Refrain
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• Sing, sing, sing alleluia,
• This is the day the Lord has made.
• Dance, dance, dance. Alleluia
• This is the day the Lord has made
• 2. Play music to honour his name,
• This is the day the Lord has made,
• Sing psalms and songs of praise,
• This is the day. Refrain

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• All Sign of the Cross
• Opening Prayer
• One of the first people to meet the Risen Jesus
• after the Resurrection was Mary Magdalene.
• She was a good friend of Jesus and she was very
• upset when she came to the tomb on Easter
• Sunday and saw that the body of Jesus was
• gone. We are gathered here to celebrate the
• new life that Jesus brings.

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• Leader
• Mary Magdalene was broken hearted when
• Jesus was killed on Good Friday. She was very
• sad. But all that changed on Easter Sunday
• when she became the first to meet the risen
• Jesus. Let us listen to the story of how is
• happened.

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• Leader (raising arms)
• Alleluia! Christ is risen!
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• All (raising arms)
• He is risen indeed! Alleluia!

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• Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene
• Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she
• wept, she bent over to look into the tomb and
• saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus
• body had been, one at the head and the other
• at the foot. They asked her, Woman, why are
• you crying?

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• They have taken my Lord away, she said, and I
• dont know where they have put him. At this,
• she turned around and saw Jesus standing
• there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus.

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• He asked her, Woman, why are you crying?
• Who is it you are looking for?
• Thinking he was the gardener, she said, Sir, if
• you have carried him away, tell me where you
• have put him, and I will get him.

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• Jesus said to her, Mary.
• She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic,
• Rabboni! (which means Teacher).
• Jesus said, Do not hold on to me, for I have not
• yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my
• brothers and tell them, I am ascending to my
• Father and your Father, to my God and your
• God.

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• Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the
• news I have seen the Lord! And she told them
• that he had said these things to her.

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• Jesus Appears to His Disciples
• On the evening of that first day of the week,
  when
• the disciples were together, with the doors
  locked
• for fear of the Jewish leaders,

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• Jesus came and stood among them and said,
• Peace be with you! After he said this, he
• showed them his hands and side. The disciples
• were overjoyed when they saw the Lord.
• All (raising arms)
• He is risen indeed! Alleluia!

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•  Leader
• Mary Magdalene ran to tell her friends about the
• risen Jesus. With her we raise our arms and say
  
• Alleluia! Christ is risen.
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• All (raising arms)
• He is risen indeed! Alleluia!

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• Leader
• Mary Magdalene, the Risen Jesus calls her name.
• With her we raise our arms and say Alleluia!
• Christ is risen, Alleluia!
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• All (raising arms)
• He is risen indeed! Alleluia!
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• Concluding Prayer
• We give thanks to God for his special time
• together to pray and to reflect on the happenings
  
• of Easter Sunday.
• May we always live as an Easter people with a
• spirit of joy and hope.
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• All Sign of the Cross

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• Choose one song
• Christ be Beside Me, Alive-O 3
• Christ be Our Light, Alive-O 8