A Service of Witness to the Resurrection

The 2003 Calvin Worship Symposium celebrated a Tenebrae service on Friday night, January 10, and a celebration of the resurrection on Saturday morning. The conference worship book included all the music; most of the songs can be found in Sing! A New Creation.

Morning Worship: A Service of Witness to the Resurrection
Calvin College Fine Arts Center Auditorium
Saturday, January 11, 2003, 8:30 a.m.

Gathering

            Gathering Song Options

Alleluya/ Alleluia

Text and music: Honduras; arr. John L. Bell (b. 1949)
Arr. © 1995, WGRG the lona Community (Scotland), admin. GlA Publications, Inc. GlA Publications, Inc., Chicago, exclusive agent.

Christ Is Risen

Text: Brian Wren (b. 1935)
Music: W zlobie lezy, Polish carol; arr. Psalter Hymnal (1987)
Text © 1986, Hope Publishing Co. Arr. © 1987, CRC Publications.

Gloria/Glory

Text: Luke 2:14
Music: Cuequita, Pablo Sosa (b. 1947), Argentina
Text and music © 1989, Pablo Sosa, admin. OCP Publications.

I'm Gonna Sing When the Spirit Says Sing

Text and music: African-American spiritual; arr. William Farley Smith (b. 1941)
Arr. © 1989, The United Methodist Publishing House, admin. The Copyright Company.

Jesu, tawa pano/Jesus, We Are Here

Text and music: Patrick Matsikenyiri (20th c., Zimbabwe), Sp. tr. Pedro P. Piron (b. 20th c.); desc. Jorge Lockward (b. 1965)
Text and music © 1990, 1996, General Board of Global Ministries; Sp. tr. © 1996, Abingdon Press, admin. The Copyright Company; Desc. © 1996, Jorge Lockward.

Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow

Text: Thomas Ken, 1709
Music: New Doxology, traditional Black gospel

When God's People Lift Their Song

Text and music: from the Dominican Republican

            Prelude:  Lament:  Rising from Resurrection, Larry King

Opening

Gospel telling:  Matthew 28:1-10
         (interspersed with “Gloria” by Pablo Sosa)

Greeting

*Hymn:  “Alleluia! Jesus Is Risen!”

Text: Herbert F. Brokering (b. 1926). Text © 1995 Augsburg Fortress.
Music: Earth and All Stars, David N. Johnson. Music © 1969 Contemporary Worship I, admin. Augsburg Fortress.

Celebrating Our New Life in Christ

Call to Confession:  Romans 6:3-4

Response:  “We Have Put on Christ”

Text: Galatians 3:27. Text © 1969, International Committee on English in the Liturgy, Inc.
Music: Baptized in Christ, Howard Hughes (b. 1930). Music © 1977, from Music for the Rite of Funerals and Rite of Baptism for Children, International Committee on English in the Liturgy (ICEL).

Prayer of Confession

Response:  “We Have Put on Christ”
                        Follow directions for singing in canon.

Assurance:  Romans 6:10-11, 14

*Hymn:  “Resucitó Aleluya”

Text: Kiko Argüello, tr. Robert C. Trupia and Jorge Lockward
Music: Kiko Argüello
Text and music © 1972, 1988, Francisco (Kiko) Gómez Argüello and PAX Musical Editions.
Administrated exclusively in EE.UU.: OCP Publications.

                        People will sing the refrain, and choir will sing the stanzas in Spanish.

Proclamation of the Word

The Old Testament Lesson:  Isaiah 65:17-25

The Word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.

            The Psalm:  Psalm 118

Refrain: “Surrexit Christus/The Lord Is Risen”

Text and music:  from Taizé: Songs for Prayer
Copyright © 1991 Ateliers et Presses de Taizé. 
GIA Publications, Inc., Chicago, exclusive agent.

O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good;
      his steadfast love endures forever!
Let Israel say,
      “His steadfast love endures forever.”
Let those who fear the Lord say,
      “His steadfast love endures forever.”

Refrain

The Lord is my strength and my might;
      he has become my salvation.
There are glad songs of victory in the tents of the righteous:
      The right hand of the Lord does valiantly;
      the right hand of the Lord is exalted;
      the right hand of the Lord does valiantly.
I shall not die, but I shall live,
      and recount the deeds of the Lord.
The Lord has punished me severely,
      but he did not give me over to death.
Open to me the gates of righteousness,
      that I may enter through them and give thanks to the Lord.
This is the grace of the Lord; the righteous shall enter through it.

Refrain

I thank you that you have answered me and have become my salvation.
      The stone that the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone.
This is the Lord's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes.
      This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Save us, we beseech you, O Lord!  O Lord, we beseech you, give us success!
      Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord.
      We bless you from the house of the Lord.
The Lord is God, and he has given us light.
      Bind the festal procession with branches, up to the horns of the altar.
You are my God, and I will give thanks to you; you are my God, I will extol you.
      O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever.

The Word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.

The Epistle Lesson:  1 Corinthians 15:12-19

The Word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.

Message:  Irreducibly Raised!

*Response:  “Cristo Vive/Christ Is Risen”

Text: 1 Corinthians 15:12-23; Nicolas Martinez, 1960; tr. Fred Kaan, 1972
Music: Pablo Sosa, 1960, alt.; as in Cantate Domino, 1980
Text and music from Cantico Nuevo, pub. Methopress Ltd., © Ediciones La Aurora, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Translation © 1974, Hope Publishing Co., Carol Stream, IL 60188.

Prayers of the People

            Hallelujah Responses:
                  Choral:  “Amen, Alleluya”
                 *All:  “Hallelujah,” G. F. Handel, from Messiah

*Parting Blessing:  Hebrews 13:20-21

Postlude:  Ecstasy:  Reflection from Resurrection, Larry King