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Radio 4 Opening Announcement: 聽大象传媒 Radio 4. 聽Now it鈥檚 time to go live to Norwich Cathedral for Easter Sunday Worship. 聽It鈥檚 led by the Rt Revd Graham James, Bishop of Norwich, who鈥檚 also the preacher. 聽The service begins with the Easter hymn 鈥楾hine be the glory, risen, conquering Son.鈥櫬�
THE GATHERINGFANFARE & HYMN Thine be the glory, risen, conquering Son, (Choir & congregation, organ & brass) Tune: Maccabaeus 聽聽
THE GREETING
President聽In the name of the Father,and of the Son,and of the Holy Spirit.聽Amen.聽聽Alleluia! 聽Christ is risen.He is risen indeed. 聽Alleluia!聽
WELCOME and PRAYER OF PREPARATION
Almighty God,to whom all hearts are open,all desires known,and from whom no secrets are hidden:cleanse the thoughts of our heartsby the inspiration of your Holy Spirit,that we may perfectly love you,and worthily magnify your holy name;through Christ our Lord.Amen.
PRAYERS OF PENITENCE
DeaconLord Jesus, you raise us to new life:Lord, have mercy.Lord, have mercy.聽聽Lord Jesus, you forgive us our sins:Christ, have mercy.Christ, have mercy.聽聽Lord Jesus, you feed us with the living bread:Lord, have mercy.Lord, have mercy.聽President聽May almighty God have mercy on us,forgive us our sins,and bring us to everlasting life.聽Amen. 聽
GLORIACommunion service in C 鈥� C.V. Stanford 聽 聽 聽 Choir, Organ & brass 聽
THE COLLECT
President聽Let us pray
聽Lord of all life and power,who through the mighty resurrection of your Sonovercame the old order of sin and deathto make all things new in him:grant that we, being dead to sinand alive to you in Jesus Christ,may reign with him in glory;to whom with you and the Holy Spiritbe praise and honour, glory and might,now and in all eternity.聽Amen. 聽

聽THE LITURGY OF THE WORDSitTHE FIRST READING: 聽 Acts 10:34-43
Then Peter began to speak to them: 鈥業 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鈥攈e 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.鈥�
For the word of the LordThanks be to God.聽
THE EASTER ANTHEMS 聽Anglican chant (Ashley Grote): choir & organ
聽StandGOSPEL ACCLAMATION聽
An organ & brass flourish leads into the Alleluia
Choir 聽Alleluia! 聽Alleluia! 聽Alleluia!All sing 聽Alleluia! 聽Alleluia! 聽Alleluia!聽聽Choir 聽Today the Saviour triumphs over death, bursts the grave, and opens to us the gate of eternal life.All sing 聽Alleluia! 聽Alleluia! 聽Alleluia!聽聽
THE GOSPEL READING: 聽 John 20. 1-18聽聽DeaconThe Lord be with youand also with you.聽Deacon聽Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John.All sing 聽Glory to you, O Lord!聽聽聽Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, 鈥楾hey have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.鈥� Then Peter and the other disciple set out and went towards the tomb. The two were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. He bent down to look in and saw the linen wrappings lying there, but he did not go in. Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb. He saw the linen wrappings lying there, and the cloth that had been on Jesus鈥� head, not lying with the linen wrappings but rolled up in a place by itself. Then the other disciple, who reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed; for as yet they did not understand the scripture, that he must rise from the dead. Then the disciples returned to their homes.聽But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb; and she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had been lying, one at the head and the other at the feet. They said to her, 鈥榃oman, why are you weeping?鈥� She said to them, 鈥楾hey have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.鈥� When she had said this, she turned round and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, 鈥榃oman, why are you weeping? For whom are you looking?鈥� Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, 鈥楽ir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.鈥� Jesus said to her, 鈥楳ary!鈥� She turned and said to him in Hebrew, 鈥楻abbouni!鈥� (which means Teacher). Jesus said to her, 鈥楧o not hold on to me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them,聽鈥淚 am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.鈥� 鈥� Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, 鈥業 have seen the Lord鈥�; and she told them that he had said these things to her.聽DeaconThis is the Gospel of the Lord.All sing 聽Praise to you, O Christ! 聽聽Sit
THE SERMON 聽 聽聽The Right Reverend Graham James, Bishop of Norwich
We don鈥檛 always know why we weep. 聽Sometimes tears come unbidden. 聽As I get older I seem to cry more easily. 聽The tragedies of our world seem less bearable. 聽Experience does not always harden hearts. 聽It can make them more tender. 聽
Mary Magdalene is asked twice why she is weeping on the first Easter Day. 聽The reason seems obvious. 聽She had come to the tomb where Jesus had been hastily buried to anoint his body. 聽She wanted to do something for someone who had done so much for her. 聽 In graveyards tears are often shed. 聽And yet two angels ask her 鈥淲oman, why are you weeping?鈥� 聽It鈥檚 not the most pastorally sensitive question. 聽Almost any training course would rule out the 鈥榳hy鈥� question. 聽It鈥檚 hard to explain tears when you鈥檙e crying. 聽
聽Recently I was with a family where a much loved husband and father was in the final days of his life. 聽I prayed with him and anointed him. 聽 Around his bed there was a lot of laughter as well as tears. 聽They were tears both of love and anticipated grief. 聽Love and grief are often found in each others鈥� company. 聽
When we shed tears we don鈥檛 always like others to see us crying. 聽We say sorry for losing control. 聽It鈥檚 strange that we look upon tears as a sign of weakness rather than an indication of a tender heart. 聽Emotional control is not always a good thing.
Mary Magdalene did have a tender heart. 聽Jesus had turned round her life. 聽 But she doesn鈥檛 seem to have been the sort of person who thought much of herself. 聽A poor self-image, we might say these days. 聽Those who put Jesus to death, by contrast, were not likely to have been racked by much self-doubt. 聽Jesus was the man who healed on the Sabbath, who disrupted trade in the Temple, who had said the morally righteous were hypocrites and spent his time with prostitutes and sinners. 聽Those who would like to turn Christianity into a set of rigid moral prohibitions 鈥� and there are plenty of them 鈥� do have Jesus with whom to contend. 聽On Easter Day the scandal of the gospel is evident. 聽Christ鈥檚 new life is for us all. 聽 He invites everyone, however unworthy, to have faith in him. 聽The glory of God鈥檚 unconquerable love for us, undeserving as we are, is beyond our capacity to explain. 聽The only real response is tears 鈥� both of joy and sorrow for our sins.
聽What Mary learned on that first Easter Day is that God is on the side of life and love. 聽Suffering and death do not have the last word. 聽You鈥檇 think this would be a popular message. 聽But God鈥檚 Easter surprise is not quite what we expect. 聽It is the crucified Lord who is raised from the dead. 聽Even on Easter Day we cannot forget Good Friday. 聽
Jesus did not seek suffering. 聽He prayed he might be spared the pain and anguish he saw coming on the night of his arrest. 聽But the Easter story makes no sense at all if suffering and pain is purposeless or cannot be redeemed. 聽We generally seek wisdom from those who have known suffering and come through it. 聽They are often deeper, stronger people as a consequence. 聽That鈥檚 the mystery. 聽The risen Christ still bore the mark of his wounds. 聽Thomas the doubter was convinced above all by that disfigured flesh. 聽
In her novel The Other Side of You Salley Vickers has a scene in which two psychiatrists are at a conference. 聽 Gus is now senior in years and experience. 聽 He鈥檚 been a mentor to a younger friend. 聽Their conference in London is about drug treatments. 聽Neither of them believe drugs are an adequate answer to anxiety and depression. 聽They go for a walk and cross the road towards Westminster Abbey. 聽鈥淭he question鈥� says Gus, 鈥渋s not how to cure or be cured but how to live. 聽See there,鈥� he says, stabbing his finger in the direction of the great Abbey Church 鈥渢hat鈥檚 what places like that should be for. 聽To help us live. 聽 There鈥檚 no cure for being alive鈥︹��
聽We come to worship on Easter Day to help us live. 聽We come with our regrets, our wounds, our lack of faith in ourselves, our fears and hopes. 聽We come with tears of joy and sorrow and the confusions of our lives. 聽 We bring them where bread is broken and wine poured out. 聽We come to this altar where Christ offers himself to us. 聽We come not demanding any explanation from God, but offering worship and adoration too deep for words. 聽We come not to be patched together but to be made new. 聽 Because of Easter, life will never be the same again. 聽Christ is risen. 聽He is risen indeed! 聽Alleluia!
AFFIRMATION OF FAITH聽Do you believe and trust in God the Father,source of all being and life,the one for whom we exist?All We believe and trust in him.
Do you believe and trust in God the Son, 聽who took our human nature,died for us and rose again?We believe and trust in him.
Do you believe and trust in God the Holy Spirit,who gives life to the people of Godand makes Christ known in the world?We believe and trust in him.聽 聽聽This is the faith of the Church.This is our faith.We believe and trust in one God,Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen.聽THE PRAYERS OF INTERCESSION 聽 聽聽The BishopIn the power of the Spiritand in union with our Risen Lord,let us pray to the Father.聽
IntercessorFather, we praise you for the resurrection of your Son Jesus Christ from the dead. Shed his glorious light on all Christian people that we may live as those who believe in the triumph of the cross.Lord, hear us.Lord, graciously hear us.聽聽
We pray for those who at this season are receiving in baptism your Son鈥檚 new life by water and the Spirit. Dying with Christ, may they know the power of his resurrection.Lord, hear us.Lord, graciously hear us.聽聽We pray for all whom we know and love, both near and far. 聽 May their eyes be opened to see the glory of the risen Lord.Lord, hear us.Lord, graciously hear us.聽
We pray for those who suffer pain and anguish. Grant them the faith to reach out towards the healing wounds of Christ and be filled with his peace.Lord, hear us.Lord, graciously hear us.聽聽We remember before you those who have died in the hope of the resurrection. Unite them with us in your undying love.Lord, hear us.聽Lord, graciously hear us.聽The BishopJoin our voices, we pray, Lord our God, to the songs of all your saints in proclaiming it is you alone who give us the victory through Jesus Christ our Lord.Amen.聽StandTHE PEACE聽聽The BishopThe risen Christ came and stood among his disciples and said, Peace be with you! Then were they glad when they saw the Lord.聽聽Alleluia! The peace of the risen Christ be alwayswith youAll 聽and also with you. Alleluia!聽聽Deacon Let us offer one another a sign of peace.聽聽All greet one another with these words:聽聽The Lord is risen.Answer He is risen indeed.聽
OFFERTORY ANTHEM 聽 聽 聽Tune: Lord of the Dance 聽 Choir & organI danced in the morning when the world was begun,聽聽THE EUCHARISTIC PRAYER聽聽The BishopThe Lord be with you.And also with you.Lift up your hearts.We lift them to the Lord.Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.It is right to give thanks and praise.聽The BishopIt is indeed right, our duty and our joy,always and everywhere to give you thanks,almighty and eternal Father,and in these days of Easterto celebrate with joyful heartsthe memory of your wonderful works.For by the mystery of his passionJesus Christ, your risen Son,has conquered the powers of death and helland restored in men and womenthe image of your glory.He has placed them once more in paradiseand opened to them the gate of life eternal.And so, in the joy of this Passover,earth and heaven resound with gladness,while angels and archangelsand the powers of all creationsing for ever the hymn of your glory:聽
聽SANCTUS AND BENEDICTUS聽Communion service in C and F 鈥� C.V. Stanford 聽Choir, Organ & brass聽EUCHARISTIC PRAYER TEXT?






After the words of institution:聽聽Deacon聽Praise to you, Lord Jesus:Dying you destroyed our death,聽rising you restored our life:Lord Jesus, come in glory.聽聽At the endAll 聽Amen! 聽聽聽KneelTHE LORD鈥橲 PRAYER聽聽As our Saviour has taught us, so we prayOur Father, who art in heaven, 鈥╤allowed be thy name; 鈥╰hy kingdom come; thy will be done; 鈥╫n earth as it is in heaven. 鈥℅ive us this day our daily bread. 鈥ˋnd forgive us our trespasses, 鈥╝s we forgive those who trespass against us. 鈥ˋnd lead us not into temptation; 鈥╞ut deliver us from evil. 鈥‵or thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, 鈥╢or ever and ever. Amen. 聽
BREAKING OF THE BREAD聽聽The BishopWe break this breadto share in the body of Christ.Though we are many, we are one body,because we all share in one bread.聽聽GIVING OF COMMUNION聽聽The BishopAlleluia! 聽Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us.Alleluia! 聽Let us keep the feast.聽聽聽During the Distribution the choir sings Agnus Dei聽Communion service in F 鈥� C.V. Stanford 聽 聽 Choir, organ & brass聽PRAYERS AFTER COMMUNION聽BishopGod of life,who for our redemption gave your only-begotten Sonto the death of the cross,and by his glorious resurrectionhave delivered us from the power of our enemy:grant us to die daily to sin,that we may evermore live with himin the joy of his risen life;through Jesus Christ our LordAmen.聽聽God of our salvation,you have restored us to life,you have brought us back again into your love,by the triumphant deathand resurrection of Christ:continue to heal us,as we go to live and workin the power of your Spirit,to your praise and glory.聽Amen.聽聽Choir & congregation, organ & brass聽HYMN 聽The Day of Resurrection! 聽 聽 聽 聽Tune: 聽Ellacombe 聽聽聽Words: 聽St John of Damascus, tr J M Neale 聽聽THE DISMISSAL聽聽聽THE SOLEMN BLESSING聽聽The BishopGod the Father,by whose love Christ was raised from the dead,open to you who believe the gate of everlasting life.Amen.聽聽God the Son,who in bursting the grave has won a glorious victory,give you joy as you share the Easter faith.Amen.聽
God the Holy Spirit,whom the Risen Lord breathed into his disciples,empower you and fill you with Christ鈥檚 peace.Amen.聽聽And the blessing of God almighty,the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit,be among you and remain with you always.Amen.聽The DeanGo in the peace of Christ!Alleluia! 聽Alleluia!聽聽聽
Concluding music: Hallelujah Chorus from Messiah - Handel Choir, organ & brassGeorge Frideric Handel
ORGAN PLAYOUT in the style of Handel