This service is not my own, but it is the one that, quite literally, I inherited from my mother.  Who knows where it was before that.  I am copying here from a 2004 bulletin, but this could be any year since.  The changes come with what music is used in between be it sung by a choir or hymns.  Note: make sure that there is enough light left by the end to be able to see the hymns as needed and especially to keep reading the scriptures.  That was an awkward year yup.

Each of the readings can be read by one voice, or as a good alternative is to have a very simple readers’ theater where the evangelist, Judas, Disciples etc. each are spoken by different voices.

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• First Reading Isaiah 52:13-53:12
• Psalm 22:1-31
• Second Reading Hebrews 10:16-25
• Or alternate Second Reading Hebrews 4:14-16, 5:7-9
• Gospel John 18:1-19:42

CALL TO WORSHIP
One: Scripture said the servant would be exalted and lifted high.
All: We never thought that he would be lifted high onto a cross.

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• First Reading Exodus 12:1-4 (5-10) 11-14
• Psalm 116:1-2, 12-19
• Second Reading 1 Corinthians 11:23-26
• Gospel John 13:1-17, 31b-35

CALL TO WORSHIP
One: Tonight we sit down to dinner with our Lord.
All: We remember the story of how God saved our people in a time of trial.
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This is basically the same as last year’s but hopefully easier to find here.

• First Reading Exodus 12:1-4 (5-10) 11-14
• Psalm 116:1-2, 12-19
• Second Reading 1 Corinthians 11:23-26
• Gospel John 13:1-17, 31b-35

CALL TO WORSHIP
One: Tonight we sit down to dinner with our Lord.
All: We remember the story of how God saved our people in a time of trial.
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• First Reading Isaiah 50:4-9a

• Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29
• Reading Matthew 21:1-11

CALL TO WORSHIP
One: Our Lord comes, rinding through the gate on a donkey.
All:  God’s steadfast love endures forever.
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• First Reading Ezekiel 37:1-14
• Psalm 130
• Second Reading Romans 8:6-11
• Gospel John 11:1-45

CALL TO WORSHIP
One: “I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word I hope.”
All: “My soul waits for the Lord more than those who watch for the morning, more than those who watch for the morning.”
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Almost nothing about my spring break has gone as planned, and I apologize that this liturgy is so late.  Probably only I will be able to use it tomorrow.  But I know that I really won’t have time to work on liturgies until the end of the semester, so here are a bunch all at once.  Grace and Peace, K

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

CALL TO WORSHIP
One: “Sleeper, awake! Rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
All: We come out of the darkness of night and sin, into the light of Christ.
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