HYMNS FEBRUARY 26TH, 2012 1ST OF LENT

Sacrament of Communion

Liturgical Colour-White

INTROIT - TO YOU, O GOD - 752, REF.2
1. THROUGHOUT THESE LENTEN DAYS AND NIGHTS - 108, V. 1 & 6
2. LENTEN CANDLE LITURGY RESPONSE - I HAVE CALLED YOU BY NAME - V.1 PRINTED
3. PREPARATION HYMN - AS WE GATHER AT YOUR TABLE - 457
4. DISTRIBUTION HYMN - ONE BREAD, ONE BODY - 467
5. SENT FORTH BY GOD'S BLESSING - 481
6. CHORAL AMEN - 967

PSALM 25, 752, REF.2

HOLY HOLY, MEMORIAL ACCLAMATION AND GREAT AMEN - 942

Communion Preface: A Responsive Reading from A Song of Faith

Because his witness to love was threatening,
those exercising power sought to silence Jesus.
He suffered abandonment and betrayal,
state-sanctioned torture and execution.
He was crucified.

But death was not the last word.
God raised Jesus from death,
turning sorrow into joy,
despair into hope.
We sing of Jesus raised from the dead.
We sing hallelujah.

By becoming flesh in Jesus,
God makes all things new.
In Jesus’ life, teaching, and self-offering,

God empowers us to live in love.
In Jesus’ crucifixion,

God bears the sin, grief, and suffering of the world.
In Jesus’ resurrection,
God overcomes death.
Nothing separates us from the love of God.
The Risen Christ lives today,
present to us and the source of our hope.
In response to who Jesus was
and to all he did and taught,
to his life, death, and resurrection,
and to his continuing presence with us through the Spirit,
we celebrate him
as the Word made flesh,
the one in whom God and humanity are perfectly joined,
the transformation of our lives,
the Christ.