2nd in Easter

First reading Acts 2:14a, 22-32
Psalm Psalm 16
Second reading 1 Peter 1:3-9
Gospel John 20:19-31

These can be found HERE.

Easter Song

Texts for Easter Sunday

Acts 10:34-43
Jeremiah 31:1-6
Colossians 3:1-4
Matthew 28:1-10

These texts can be read HERE.

The Passion and Resurrection

Good Friday Service: 6 PM
Easter Sunday Worship: 10 AM

So Peter opened his mouth and said: "Truly I understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him. As for the word that he sent to Israel, preaching good news of peace through Jesus Christ ( he is Lord of all), you yourselves know what happened throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism that John proclaimed: how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. And we are witnesses of all that he did both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They put him to death by hanging him on a tree, but God raised him on the third day and made him to appear, not to all the people but to us who had been chosen by God as witnesses, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. And he commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one appointed by God to be judge of the living and the dead. To him all the prophets bear witness that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name."

-Acts 10:34-43

The Triumph of Christ- Palm Sunday

The Triumph of Christ continues after Palm Sunday and Easter, even to this day. We, his people, join in the eternal Triumph:

But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere. For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing, to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things? For we are not, like so many, peddlers of God’s word, but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ. 2 Corinthians 2:14-17

Ah, Holy Jesus!

Ah, holy Jesus, how hast Thou offended,
That man to judge Thee hath in hate pretended?
By foes derided, by Thine own rejected,
O most afflicted.

Who was the guilty? Who brought this upon Thee?
Alas, my treason, Jesus, hath undone Thee.
’Twas I, Lord, Jesus, I it was denied Thee!
I crucified Thee.

Lo, the Good Shepherd for the sheep is offered;
The slave hath sinned, and the Son hath suffered;
For man’s atonement, while he nothing heedeth,
God intercedeth.

For me, kind Jesus, was Thy incarnation,
Thy mortal sorrow, and Thy life’s oblation;
Thy death of anguish and Thy bitter passion,
For my salvation.

Therefore, kind Jesus, since I cannot pay Thee,
I do adore Thee, and will ever pray Thee,
Think on Thy pity and Thy love unswerving,
Not my deserving.


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Palm Sunday

Psalm Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29
Old Testament Zechariah 9:9-10
Gospel Matthew 21:1-11

The Raising of Lazarus by Giotto

Out of the Depths

Martin Luther:


Scottish Psalter:

5th in Lent

First reading Ezekiel 37:1-14
Psalm Psalm 130
Second reading Romans 8:6-11
Gospel John 11:1-45

You may read these texts HERE.

4th Sunday in Lent

First reading 1 Samuel 16:1-13
Psalm Psalm 23
Second reading Ephesians 5:8-14
Gospel John 9:1-41

You can read these texts HERE.