Easter Sunday, APRIL 17, 2022 Scripture
Reading: John 20:1–18
Additional Scriptures: Isaiah
65:17–25; Luke 24:1–12; Acts 10:34–43; 1 Corinthians 15:19–26
In Adam all people die, because all
people sin. The children of that first gardener have been driven out of
Paradise and return to the dust whence they were taken. But now another
Gardener has come, who has made His bed in the dust of the earth and who by His
rising restores Paradise to all the children of men. With His voice of the
Gospel, He calls us by name, and He opens our eyes to behold Him by faith. At
His Word, we enter His tomb through Baptism into His death, so that, just as He
is risen, we also “rise from the dead” (John 20:9).
Almighty God the Father, through Your only-begotten Son, Jesus
Christ, You have overcome death and opened the gate of everlasting life to us.
Grant that we, who celebrate with joy the day of our Lord’s resurrection, may
be raised from the death of sin by Your life-giving Spirit; through Jesus
Christ, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God,
now and forever.[2]
We rejoice in thee, O
Lord everlasting, with gladness and exultation, beseeching Thee, that while the
gates of our hearts are thrown open in Thy praise, they may also be flung wide
to receive Thy mercy and truth; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and
reigns with Thee and the Holy Ghost, One God, world without end. Amen.[3]
[1] Easter
copyright © Ed Riojas Higher Things
[2] Collect
for Easter, Lutheran Service Book © 2006 Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis
[3]An Easter
Collect © 2005 Lutheran Liturgical Prayer Brotherhood
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