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The Second Sunday of Easter

Weekly Videos for 4/24/22

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The Readings

The Gospel: John 20:19-31

When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you.” After he said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.” When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.”

But Thomas (who was called the Twin), one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands, and put my finger in the mark of the nails and my hand in his side, I will not believe.”

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The Sunday of the Resurrection

Weekly Videos for 4/17/22

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The Readings

The Reading from Acts: 10:34-43

Peter began to speak to Cornelius and the other Gentiles: “I truly understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him. You know the message he sent to the people of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ–he is Lord of all. That message spread throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John announced: how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power; how he went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. We are witnesses to all that he did both in Judea and in Jerusalem. They put him to death by hanging him on a tree; but God raised him on the third day and allowed him to appear, not to all the people but to us who were chosen by God as witnesses, and who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one ordained by God as judge of the living and the dead. All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”

The Gospel: Luke 24:1-12

On the first day of the week, at early dawn, the women who had come with Jesus from Galilee came to the tomb, taking the spices that they had prepared. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they went in, they did not find the body. While they were perplexed about this, suddenly two men in dazzling clothes stood beside them. The women were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen. Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee, that the Son of Man must be handed over to sinners, and be crucified, and on the third day rise again.” Then they remembered his words, and returning from the tomb, they told all this to the eleven and to all the rest. Now it was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them who told this to the apostles. But these words seemed to them an idle tale, and they did not believe them. But Peter got up and ran to the tomb; stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths by themselves; then he went home, amazed at what had happened.

(Bible texts from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Church of Christ in the USA, and used by permission.)

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Good Friday

Stations of the Cross

Church of the Resurrection, Episcopal – Battle Creek, Michigan

The Service

The Order of Service may be downloaded at:
https://e-piscopalian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/The-Way-of-the-Cross.pdf

0:00 Title Sequence
0:39 Opening Prayers
1:56 The First Station: Jesus is condemned to death
3:49 The Second Station: Jesus takes up his Cross
5:47 The Third Station: Jesus falls the first time
7:52 The Fourth Station: Jesus meets his afflicted mother
9:40 The Fifth Station: The Cross is laid on Simon of Cyrene
11:33 Sixth Station: A woman wipes the face of Jesus
13:37 Seventh Station: Jesus fall a second time
15:23 Eighth Station: Jesus meets the women of Jerusalem
16:57 Ninth Station: Jesus falls a third time
18:53 Tenth Station: Jesus is stripped of his garments
20:28 Eleventh Station: Jesus is nailed to the Cross
22:05 Twelfth Station: Jesus dies on the Cross
23:53 Thirteenth Station: The body of Jesus is placed in the arms of his mother
25:36 Fourteenth Station: Jesus is laid in the tomb
27:24 Concluding Prayers
28:36 Concluding Hymn