Coming Soon! All the videos 🎥 have been submitted and our video producer Greg K is busy at work stitching all of the submissions together! Look 👀 for a watch party invitation soon to Leaside United Church’s FIRST Virtual Variety Show in support of COVID CARE helping our most food insecure friends and neighbours.
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It’s going to be a Virtual Variety Show! Send us a video clip or photo of what you are doing during the COVID19 shut down and we’d love to share it in a show along with everyone else’s submissions. Send videos and photos to Tracy and Jane at virtualvariety2020@gmail.com Have fun … entry deadline is by May 14th.
Here is the live-stream recording from this morning:
(1) Watch our service livestream at: https://youtube.com/c/LeasideUnitedChurchToronto
(The recording will also be available on YouTube afterwards.)
(2) Share worship together through Zoom:
Gather any time after 10 for the 10:30 service, which will also be live-streamed (starting at 10:20 am). The live-stream will show the worship leaders, not the congregation. The live-stream will end and we will have the opportunity to wish one another the Peace of Christ and share in conversation.
Gather 9:45-10 am to take part in the half hour children’s program before the service (or use this all ages activity).
| WORSHIP AT HOME To hear the music, prayers and readings included in this service order, please watch our April 19, 2020 service. Gathering Music Like a Rock Linnea Good Lighting the Christ Candle Opening Prayer Opening Hymn VU 703 In the Bulb There Is a Flower PROMISE Learning Together with Natalie and Mary Scripture Reading John 20:19-31 Sung Response MV 114 Behold the Face of Christ Reflection A New Creed We are not alone, we live in God’s world. We believe in God: who has created and is creating, who has come in Jesus, the Word made flesh, to reconcile and make new, who works in us and others by the Spirit. We trust in God. We are called to be the Church: to celebrate God’s presence, to live with respect in Creation, to love and serve others, to seek justice and resist evil, to proclaim Jesus, crucified and risen, our judge and our hope. In life, in death, in life beyond death, God is with us. We are not alone. Thanks be to God. Offertory Solo I Know that My Redeemer Liveth G.F. Handel Prayer and Lord’s Prayer Hymn VU 158 Christ is Alive TRURO Blessing Sharing the Peace Music Notes: Gathering Music MV 92 Like a Rock A number of years ago, Linnea Good began to work with Keri Wehlander at Ryerson United Church, in Vancouver. It was there that, one day in a small informal worship, she prayed this prayer. Or rather that she danced these words. It was a prayer with flowing movements that elegantly spoke of God in All Things. Opening Hymn VU 703 In the Bulb There Is a Flower From time to time, a choral anthem inspires a hymn. “Hymn of Promise” was first conceived as an anthem in 1985, performed at the Pasadena Communit Church, St. Petersburg, Florida, during a festival concert on Natalie Sleeth’s music. Long known as a composer of anthems, especially for children, Natalie Sleeth contributed one of the favourite new hymns to The United Methodist Hymnal. Sung Response MV 114 Behold the Face of Christ Bernadette Farrell is a British hymnographer and composer of Catholic liturgical music. Bernadette has always had a passion for social justice and that comes to the fore in many of her songs. Born in West Yorkshire in the north o England, she has lived in London for many years with her husband, liturgical composer Owen Alstott. Currently, she is a community organizer for UK Citizens, which advocates for fair housing, a living wage, proper community policing and health care access. Offertory Solo I Know that my Redeemer Liveth Reminding us of our living hope in the Risen Christ, this aria by G. F. Handel, is the third movement of Messiah. Like the rest of its songs and choruses, the text is entirely based on Scripture, in this case on verses from Job 19:25-26 and 1 Corinthians 15:20. Incredibly, Handel lived until the morning of Holy Saturday, April 14, 1759, and his death came only eight days after his final performance, at which he conducted his masterpiece, Messiah. Closing Hymn VU 158 Christ is Alive Brian Wren, a minister in the United Reformed Church of England and Wales, is one of the shining lights in contemporary English hymnody. The cross is empty, and Christ is alive here and now – not tied down to 2000 years ago in Palestine. This is one of the finest new hymns about the meaning of the Resurrection for today. |
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(1) Watch our Easter service – Easter Sunday Service
April 12, 2020 @ 10:30am :
(2) Share worship together through Zoom:
As for the last few Sundays, gather ahead of 10:30am when we will share the service so we all view it together. This will be followed by a time for conversation and sharing wishes for a happy Easter. Gather 9:45-10am to take part in the half hour children’s program before the service (or use this all ages activity). Check your email for the Zoom links and phone in numbers.
Feel free to bring your own Easter flowers and plants so they are visible on our screens.
Bring your own bread and juice or wine for a United Church Livestream Communion Service at 3 pm EDT, led by our Moderator Richard Bott. Just go to the United Church YouTube channel shortly before 3 and look for the Easter Communion service “Live Now.” Together we celebrate the sacred promise that hope is stronger than fear, love stronger than hate, and life stronger than death. God is with us. Hallelujah! – Emily, Matt, and Natalie (Worship Planning Team)
To hear the music, prayers and readings included in this service order please watch our Easter service.
Prelude – Trumpet Tune in D Henry Purcell
Call to Worship and Opening Prayer
Hallelujah! Christ is Risen!Christ is Risen Indeed! Hallelujah!Consider making a special Easter offering today, using either your credit card or paypal account by following the link at the bottom of this email, or the Donate button on our website.
Choral Introit – Rise Up My Love Healy Willan
Learning Together and Wish for Peace You are invited to take part in the all ages activity with Natalie and Mary if you wish.
Opening Hymn – This Easter Celebration
Scripture Reading John 20:1-16
Anthem – Who is There on this Easter Morn? Peter Bull
ReflectionPrayer
If you are using this service on your own, you are invited to add the prayers that arise in your heart on this day.
The Lord’s Prayer
Hymn – Jesus Christ Is Risen Today (VU 155)
Blessing
Postlude – Ave Verum Corpus Stephanie Martin
This trumpet tune was written by Henry Purcell. This 17th century English composer incorporated both Italian and French stylistic elements in his Baroque works. He is generally considered to be one of the greatest English composers. This Easter service begins with this prelude to set the triumphant joy of Jesus’ Resurrection. This trumpet tune is generally used in festivities and celebrations. This recording was done on May 18, 2018 at St. Clements Anglican Church, Toronto.
This motet was composed by the dean of Canadian composers, Healey Willan. A Toronto church musician who has left a legacy at the Church of St. Mary Magdalene in Toronto. The text of this motet derives itself from the Book of Song of Songs in which the “rising up” has often been an allegory to the resurrection of Jesus Christ. This motet was recorded on February 9, 2020 (Choral Evensong) by the Leaside Chancel Choir.
This familiar hymn tune, Aurelia was written by Samuel Sebastian Wesley. Wesley was an English organist and composer born in London, and sang in the choir of the Chapel Royal as a boy. The text is written by Carolyn Winfrey Gillette in 2020 to reflect the impact of COVID-19 and how we are celebrating our Easter services. This is a generous offering from Gillette for church communities to explore singing this hymn on Easter morning. This hymn was pre-recorded by soprano, Courtney Dakers specifically for this service.
The text of this anthem is written by Timothy Dudley-Smith (b.1926). Dudley-Smith has served the Church of England since his ordination in 1950. The choral arrangement of this anthem was composed by our very own bass lead in the Leaside Chancel Choir, Peter Bull. This anthem was pre-recorded by the Leaside Chancel Choir for the Easter service in 2019.
A five stanza Easter carol, which first appeared in German and Bohemian manuscripts of the 14th century was translated in Lyra Davidica, but in John Arnold’s 1749 The Complete Psalmodist only the first stanza was retained and others substituted for the original. In the same meter as Wesley’s “Christ the Lord is risen today,” it is made up of a series of short one-liners which are easy to remember, and with added Alleluias it is a favourite Easter hymn. This hymn was pre-recorded by the Leaside Chancel Choir specifically for this service. In doing so, the choir recorded their parts at home, which were then compiled and mixed together by our bass lead, Peter Bull.
This beautiful a cappella motet rose to the top of the Cypress publishing list in 2009. The sweet vocal registers and intuitive voice leading makes this compelling composition accessible for church choirs. The Latin text is a short Eucharistic chant that has been used to remember the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. It is often sung during the liturgy of Communion. The motet was composed by Toronto composer, educator and church musician, Stephanie Martin (b. 1962). Stephanie Martin was the director of music at Leaside United Church in Toronto. This motet was pre-recorded by the leads of the Leaside Chancel Choir specifically for this service. In doing so, the leads recorded their parts at home, which were then compiled and mixed together by our bass lead, Peter Bull.
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