Easter Vigil April 15, 2017
Ex.14:10 Canticle 8, Ez 36:24-28 Psalm 42:1-7
Rom.6:3-11 Luke 24:1-12
Lectionary Link
Tonight I welcome you to a celebration of hope. Hope is a wonderful feeling. Hope is the wonderful feeling that we will always have a future.
The Bible tells us that we have been made in God's image. And one of the ways in which we are made like God, is that we have hope within us.
But sometimes life can be very difficult and hard. We can become sad because we can know the loss of people in our lives. And when life become difficult, we need to remember that first of all we are made with Hope. And so we have to keep stirring up hope within us.
How do we keep hope alive?
We remember light. Tonight we lit the new candle, the Paschal candle and we shouted that Christ is the light of the world. As long as we have light we know that we keep hope alive. Even though at night it can be darkness, we can still light candles and turn on the light to know that hope is light and is our life.
We keep hope alive by hearing the stories of how people who came before us received God help and hope. We remember Adam, Eve, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, David, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, Elijah, Elisha and many more. By hearing the stories of hope in the past we can be encouraged that hope will still be with us in our lives. Grandfathers and grandmothers and moms and dad can tell you their stories of hope too.
We keep hope alive tonight, by passing the life of hope on to new people. When we baptize people we are giving them our very best message of hope. We are telling them that God loves them, God forgives them, God gives them gifts to share with this world to make it a better place, and God will preserve their lives forever, even after they leave this world.
We keep hope alive by having our first Easter Feast to remember how God showed us that we can be hopeful. The Easter feast is our family meal. In this Easter feast we celebrate our hope because Christ promised to be with us even after he left this earth. Christ promised to be with us when we gathered to celebrate his resurrection.
Finally, we have hope because Jesus came back to life after he died. And he showed us that God will preserve our lives in a special way after we die too. And what that mean? It means we don't have to live with fear. It means we can live with hope because we know that we will always have a future.
And don't you agree with me that this is wonderful?
So we make our happy shout tonight: Alleluia Christ is Risen. The Lord is Risen Indeed. Alleluia!
Amen.
Ex.14:10 Canticle 8, Ez 36:24-28 Psalm 42:1-7
Rom.6:3-11 Luke 24:1-12
Lectionary Link
Tonight I welcome you to a celebration of hope. Hope is a wonderful feeling. Hope is the wonderful feeling that we will always have a future.
The Bible tells us that we have been made in God's image. And one of the ways in which we are made like God, is that we have hope within us.
But sometimes life can be very difficult and hard. We can become sad because we can know the loss of people in our lives. And when life become difficult, we need to remember that first of all we are made with Hope. And so we have to keep stirring up hope within us.
How do we keep hope alive?
We remember light. Tonight we lit the new candle, the Paschal candle and we shouted that Christ is the light of the world. As long as we have light we know that we keep hope alive. Even though at night it can be darkness, we can still light candles and turn on the light to know that hope is light and is our life.
We keep hope alive by hearing the stories of how people who came before us received God help and hope. We remember Adam, Eve, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, David, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, Elijah, Elisha and many more. By hearing the stories of hope in the past we can be encouraged that hope will still be with us in our lives. Grandfathers and grandmothers and moms and dad can tell you their stories of hope too.
We keep hope alive tonight, by passing the life of hope on to new people. When we baptize people we are giving them our very best message of hope. We are telling them that God loves them, God forgives them, God gives them gifts to share with this world to make it a better place, and God will preserve their lives forever, even after they leave this world.
We keep hope alive by having our first Easter Feast to remember how God showed us that we can be hopeful. The Easter feast is our family meal. In this Easter feast we celebrate our hope because Christ promised to be with us even after he left this earth. Christ promised to be with us when we gathered to celebrate his resurrection.
Finally, we have hope because Jesus came back to life after he died. And he showed us that God will preserve our lives in a special way after we die too. And what that mean? It means we don't have to live with fear. It means we can live with hope because we know that we will always have a future.
And don't you agree with me that this is wonderful?
So we make our happy shout tonight: Alleluia Christ is Risen. The Lord is Risen Indeed. Alleluia!
Amen.
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