2012 Easter from King's

# When I survey the wondrous cross

# On which the Prince of Glory died

# My richest gain I count but loss

# And pour contempt on all my pride

# Forbid it, Lord That I should boast

# Save in the death of Christ, my God

# All the vain things That charm me most

# I sacrifice them to His blood

# See, from his head His hands, his feet

# Sorrow and love flow mingled down

# Did e'er such love and sorrow meet

# Or thorns compose so rich a crown?

# His dying crimson, like a robe

# Spreads o'er His body on the tree

# Then am I dead to all the globe

# And all the globe is dead to me

# Were the whole realm of nature mine

# That were a present far too small

# Love so amazing, so divine

# Demands my soul, my life, my all. #

Beloved in Christ, we come this Eastertide as witnesses

of the passion and resurrection of our blessed Lord.

We are invited to walk, sit and stand alongside Jesus

during the last days of his earthly life,

to receive with gratitude his gift of himself

to save us from our sins,

to witness his agony, betrayal, and execution on Calvary.

And finally, to share the astonishment and joy

of that first Easter morning.

With music, poetry and scripture,

we reflect on the all-consuming love of God,

the sacrifice of his Son, and His glorious resurrection.

As we do so,

we remember all those facing anxiety, illness or bereavement,

and those whose lives are blighted by war, famine or disease.

We hold them in our prayers and we ask for God's blessing upon them.

Amen.

CONGREGATION: Amen.

# God so loved the world

# God so loved the world

# That He gave His only begotten Son

# That who so believeth

# Believeth in Him

# Should not perish

# Should not perish

# But have everlasting life

# For God sent not His Son into the world

# To condemn the world

# God sent not His Son into the world

# To condemn the world

# But that the world through Him

# Might be saved

# God so loved the world

# God so loved the world

# That He gave His only begotten Son

# That who so believeth

# Believeth in Him

# Should not perish

# Should not perish

# But have everlasting life

# Everlasting life

# Everlasting

# Everlasting life

# God so loved the world

# God so loved the world

# God so loved the world. #

The poet Robert Frost contemplates humanity's fall into temptation.

God made a beauteous garden With lovely flowers strown

But one straight, narrow pathway That was not overgrown

And to this beauteous garden He brought mankind to live

And said, "To you, my children These lovely flowers I give

"Prune ye my vines and fig trees With care my flowerets tend

"But keep the pathway open Your home is at the end"

Then came another master Who did not love mankind

And planted on the pathway Gold flowers for them to find

And mankind saw the bright flowers That, glitt'ring in the sun

Quite hid the thorns of av'rice That poison blood and bone

And far off many wandered And when life's night came on

They still were seeking gold flowers Lost, helpless and alone

O, cease to heed the glamour That blinds your foolish eyes

Look upward to the glitter Of stars in God's clear skies

Their ways are pure and harmless And will not lead astray

Bid, aid your erring footsteps To keep the narrow way

And when the sun shines brightly Tend flowers that God has given

And keep the pathway open That leads you on to heaven.

# When Jesus Christ was yet a child

# He had a garden small and wild

# Wherein he cherished roses fair

# And wove them into garlands there

# Now as the summertime drew nigh

# There came a troop of children by

# And seeing roses on the tree

# With shouts they plucked them Merrily

# "Do you bind roses in your hair?"

# They cried in scorn to Jesus there

# The boy said humbly "Take, I pray

# "All but the naked thorns away"

# Then of the thorns They made a crown

# And with rough fingers Pressed it down

# Till on his forehead fair and young

# Red drops of blood Like roses sprung

# Like roses

# Sprung. #

# Herr, gedenke nicht

# Uns'rer Uebeltaten

# Und erbarme dich unseres Elends.

# Herr, der du unser Heiland bist

# Stehe uns bei

# Erloese uns und vergieb uns

# Unsere Suenden

# Um der Herrlichkeit

# Deines Namens willen

# Halleluja!

# Halleluja!

# Halleluja!

# Halleluja! #

Isaiah predicts the suffering of God's servant.

Behold, my servant shall deal prudently,

he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.

For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant,

and as a root out of a dry ground.

He hath no form nor comeliness,

and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

He is despised and rejected of men,

a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief,

and we hid as it were our faces from him.

He was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows,

yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

But he was wounded for our transgressions.

He was bruised for our iniquities,

the chastisement of our peace was upon him,

and with his stripes, we are healed.

All we like sheep have gone astray.

We have turned every one to his own way,

and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,

yet he opened not his mouth.

He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter,

and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb,

so he openeth not his mouth.

He was taken from prison and from judgment,

and who shall declare his generation?

For he was cut off out of the land of the living.

For the transgression of my people was he stricken.

Thanks be to God.

# Ubi caritas et amor

# Deus ibi est

# Ubi caritas et amor

# Deus ibi est

# Congregavit nos in unum Christi amor

# Congregavit nos in unum Christi amor

# Exultemus, et in ipso iucundemur

# Timeamus, et amemus Deum vivum

# Et ex corde diligamus nos sincero

# Et ex corde diligamus nos sincero

# Sincero

# Ubi caritas et amor

# Deus ibi est

# Amen. #

# And with his stripes we are healed

# And with his stripes we are healed And with his stripes we are healed

# And with his stripes we are healed

# And with his stripes we are healed

-# And with his stripes we are healed

-And with his stripes we are healed

# And with his stripes we are healed

-# And with his stripes we are healed

-And with his stripes we are healed

-# And with his stripes we are healed

-And with his stripes we are healed

-# And with his stripes we are healed

-And with his stripes we are healed

-# And with his stripes we are healed

-And with his stripes we are healed

-# And with his stripes we are healed

-And with his stripes we are healed

# And with his stripes we are healed

# And with his stripes we are healed

-# And with his stripes we are healed

-And with his stripes we are healed

# And with his stripes we are healed

-# And with his stripes we are healed

-And with his stripes we are healed

# And with his stripes we are healed

-# And the Lord hath laid on him

-And the Lord hath laid on him

# And the Lord hath laid on him

# And the Lord hath laid on him

# Hath laid on him

# Hath laid on him

# The iniquity of us all. #

Jesus celebrates the Passover with his disciples.

Then came the day of unleavened bread,

when the passover must be killed.

And when the hour was come, he sat down,

and the twelve apostles with him.

And he said unto them,

"With desire,

"I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer.

"For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof,

"until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God."

And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and said,

"Take this, and divide it among yourselves,

"For I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine

"until the kingdom of God shall come."

And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it,

and gave unto them, saying,

"This is my body which is given for you -

"this do in remembrance of me."

Likewise also the cup after supper, saying,

"This cup is the new testament in my blood,

"which is shed for you.

"But, behold,

"the hand of him that betrayeth me is with me on the table."

And truly the Son of Man goeth, as it was determined,

but woe unto that man by whom he is betrayed.

Thanks be to God.

# I sat down under his shadow

# With great delight

# I sat down under his shadow

# With great delight

# With great delight

# And his food Was sweet to my taste

# He brought me To the banqueting house

# He brought me To the banqueting house

# And his banner over me

# His banner over me

# Was love

# Was love

# I sat down under his shadow. #

# Panis angelicus

# Fit panis hominum

# Dat panis coelicus

# Figuris terminum

# O res mirabilis

# Manducat Dominum

# Pauper, pauper

# Servus et humilis

# Pauper, pauper

# Servus et humilis

ORGAN PLAYS

# Panis angelicus

# Panis angelicus

# Fit panis hominum

# Fit panis hominum

# Dat panis coelicus

# Dat panis coelicus

# Figuris terminum

# O res mirabilis

# O res mirabilis

# Manducat Dominum

# Manducat Dominum

# Pauper, pauper

-# Pauper, pauper

-# Servus et humilis

# Pauper, pauper

# Servus et humilis. #

ORGAN PLAYS

# Praise to the Holiest In the height

# And in the depth be praise

# In all His words most wonderful

# Most sure in all His ways

# O loving wisdom of our God

# When all was sin and shame

# A second Adam to the fight

# And to the rescue came

# O generous love

# That He who smote in man For man the foe

# The double agony in man

# For man should undergo

# And in the garden secretly

# And on the Cross on high

# Should teach his brethren

# And inspire To suffer and to die

# Praise to the Holiest In the height

# And in the depth be praise

# In all His words most wonderful

# Most sure in all His ways. #

The betrayal of Jesus is related by St Luke.

And he came out, and went, as he was wont, to the Mount of Olives

and his disciples also followed him.

And when he was at the place, he said unto them,

"Pray that ye enter not into temptation."

And he was withdrawn from them about a stone's cast,

and kneeled down and prayed saying,

"Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me.

"Nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done."

And there appeared an angel unto him from Heaven, strengthening him.

And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly,

and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood

falling down to the ground.

And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples,

he found them sleeping for sorrow,

and said unto them, "Why sleep ye?

"Rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation."

And while he yet spake, behold a multitude,

and he that was called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them,

and drew near unto Jesus to kiss him.

But Jesus said unto him,

"Judas, betrayest thou the Son of Man with a kiss?"

Thanks be to God.

# Amicus meus

# Osculi me tradidit signo

# Quem osculatus fuero

# Ipse est, tenete eum

# Hoc malum fecit signum

# Qui per osculum at implevit homicidium

# Infelix praetermisit pretium sanguinis

# Et in fine laquaeo se suspendit

# Bonum erat illi

# Si natus non fuisset homo ille

# Infelix praetermisit pretium sanguinis

# Et in fine laquaeo se suspendit. #

# Pater noster, qui es in caelis

# Sanctificetur nomen Tuum

# Adveniat regnum Tuum

# Fiat voluntas Tua

# Sicut in caelo et in terra

# Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie

# Et dimitte nobis debita nostra

# Sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris

# Et ne nos inducas in tentationem

# Sed libera nos a malo

# Amen. #

St Luke unfolds the dark hours of the Crucifixion.

And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary,

there they crucified him,

and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.

Then said Jesus, "Father, forgive them,

"for they know not what they do."

And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.

And the people stood beholding.

And the rulers also with them derided him, saying, "He saved others.

"Let him save himself. If he be Christ, the chosen of God."

And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him,

and offering him vinegar, and saying,

"If thou be the king of the Jews, save thyself."

And a superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek,

and Latin, and Hebrew, "This is the king of the Jews."

And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying,

"If thou be Christ, save thyself and us."

But the other answering rebuked him, saying, "Dost not thou fear God,

"seeing thou art in the same condemnation?

"And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward of our deeds.

"But this man hath done nothing amiss."

And he said unto Jesus, "Lord, remember me

"when thou comest into thy kingdom."

And Jesus said unto him,

"Verily I say unto thee,

"today shalt thou be with me in paradise."

And it was about the sixth hour,

and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.

And the sun was darkened,

and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.

And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said,

"Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit."

And having said thus, he gave up the ghost.

Thanks be to God.

# Crucifixus

# Crucifixus

# Crucifixus

# Crucifixus

# Crucifixus

# Crucifixus

# Crucifixus etiam pro nobis

# Crucifixus etiam pro nobis

# Crucifixus etiam pro nobis

# Sub Pontio Pilato

# Sub Pontio Pilato

# Sub Pontio Pilato

# Sub Pontio Pilato

# Sub Pontio Pilato

# Sub Pontio Pilato

# Sub Pontio Pilato

# Passus

# Et sepultus est

# Passus et sepultus est

# Et sepultus est. #

The poet Alice Meynell reflects on the sounds of Easter.

All night had shout of men, and cry

Of woeful women filled His way

Until that noon of sombre sky

On Friday, clamour and display

Smote Him.

No solitude had He

No silence, since Gethsemane

Public was Death But Power, but Might

But Life again, but Victory

Were hushed within the dead of night

The shutter'd dark, the secrecy

And all alone, alone, alone

He rose again behind the stone.

# In paradisum

# Deducant te angeli

# In tuo adventu

# Suscipiant te martyres

# Et perducant te

# In civitatem sanctam

# Ierusalem

# Ierusalem

# Ierusalem

# Ierusalem

# Ierusalem

# Chorus angelorum te

# Suscipiat

# Et cum Lazaro

# Quondam paupere

# Et cum Lazaro

# Quondam paupere

# Aeternam habeas

# Requiem

# Aeternam

# Aeternam

# Habeas

# Requiem. #

# Ye choirs of new Jerusalem

# Your sweetest notes employ

# The Paschal victory to hymn

# In strains of holy joy

# How Judah's lion burst his chains

# And crushed the serpent's head

# And brought with him from death's domains

# The long-imprisoned dead

# From Hell's devouring jaws the prey

# Alone our leader bore

# His ransomed hosts pursue their way

# Where he hath gone before

# Triumphant in his glory now

# His sceptre ruleth all

# Earth, Heaven and Hell before him bow

# And at his footstool fall

# While joyful thus His praise we sing

# His mercy we implore

# Into His palace bright to bring

# And keep us evermore

# All glory to the Father be

# All glory to the Son

# All glory, Holy Ghost, to thee

# While endless ages run

# Amen. #

Mary discovers the empty tomb.

But Mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping,

and as she wept, she stooped down, and looked into the sepulchre.

And seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at the head,

and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.

And they say unto her, "Woman, why weepest thou?"

She saith unto them, "Because they have taken away my Lord,

"and I know not where they have laid him."

And when she had thus said, she turned herself back,

and saw Jesus standing,

and knew not that it was Jesus.

Jesus saith unto her, "Woman, why weepest thou? Whom seekest thou?"

She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him,

"Sir, if thou have borne him hence,

"tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away."

Jesus saith unto her, "Mary."

She turned herself, and saith unto him,

"Rabboni," which is to say, "Master."

Jesus saith unto her, "Touch me not,

"for I am not yet ascended to my Father.

"But go to my brethren, and say unto them,

"I ascend unto my Father, and your Father,

"and to my God, and your God."

Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples

that she had seen the Lord,

and that he had spoken these things unto her.

Thanks be to God.

# This joyful Eastertide

# Away with sin and sorrow

# My love, the crucified

# Hath sprung to life this morrow

# Had Christ, that once was slain

# Ne'er burst his three-day prison

# Our faith had been in vain

# But now hath Christ arisen

# Arisen, arisen, arisen

# My flesh in hope shall rest

# And for a season slumber

# Till trump from east to west

# Shall wake the dead in number

# Had Christ, that once was slain

# Ne'er burst his three-day prison

# Our faith had been in vain

# But now hath Christ arisen

# Arisen, arisen, arisen

# Death's flood hath lost its chill

# Since Jesus crossed the river

# Lover of souls, from ill

# My passing soul deliver

# Had Christ, that once was slain

# Ne'er burst his three-day prison

# Our faith had been in vain

# But now hath Christ arisen

# Arisen, arisen, arisen. #

# Surrexit dominus vere

# Alleluia

# Alleluia

# Surrexit dominus vere

# Alleluia

# Alleluia

# Et apparuit Simoni

# Alleluia

# Alleluia

# Gloria patri et filio

# Et spiritui sancto

# Surrexit dominus vere

# Alleluia

# Alleluia

# Alleluia. #

The Victorian clergyman Francis Kilvert remembers Easter Day, 1876.

Thank God for a bright, beautiful happy Easter Day.

There was a large congregation this morning.

When all the people had left the church

and no-one remained but the clerk putting away the sacred vessels,

I walked alone round the silent, sunny, peaceful churchyard

and visited the graves of my sleeping friends,

Jane Hatherell, Mary Jefferies,

Anne Hawkins, John Jefferies,

George Bryant, Emily Banks,

John Hatherell, Limpedy Buckland the gypsy girl,

and many more.

There they lay, the squire and the peasant,

the landlord and the labourer, young men and maidens,

old men and children. The infant of days

beside the patriarch of nearly five score years.

Sister, brother, by the same mother,

all in her breast their heads did lay and crumble to their common clay.

And over all she lovingly threw her soft mantle of green and gold,

the greensward and buttercups, daisies and primroses.

There they lay all sleeping well and peacefully

after life's fitful fevers

and waiting for the great spring morning

and the general resurrection of the dead.

John Hatherell, the good old sawyer,

now sleeps in the same God's acre

to which he helped to carry the gypsy girl Limpedy Buckland

to her burial more than 60 years ago.

# Bring us, O Lord God

# At our last awakening

# Into the house and gate of heaven

# To enter into that gate

# To enter into that gate

# And dwell in that house

# Where there shall be no darkness

# Nor dazzling

# But one equal light

# No noise nor silence

# But one equal music

# No fears nor hopes

# No fears nor hopes

# But one equal possession

# No ends nor beginnings

# No ends nor beginnings

# But one equal eternity

# But one equal eternity

-# In the habitation

-In the habitation

-# In the habitation

-In the habitation

# Habitation

# Of thy glory and dominion

-# World without end

-World without end

-# World without end

-Without end

# World without end

# Amen

# Amen. #

# Let all the world in every corner sing

# Let all the world in every corner sing

# My God and King!

# The heavens are not too high His praise may thither fly

# The earth is not too low His praises there may grow

-# Let all the world

-Let all the world

# Let all the world In every corner sing

# Let all the world in every corner sing

# My God and King!

# The church with psalms must shout

# No door can keep them out

# But, above all The heart must bear the longest part

-# Let all the world

-Let all the world

-# In every corner sing

-Let all the world

# In every corner

# Every corner sing

# My God and King!

# My God and King!

# Let all the world in every corner sing

# My God and King! #

Lord of all life and power,

who through the mighty resurrection of thy Son

hast overcome the old order of sin and death

to make all things new in Him.

Grant that we, being dead to sin and alive to Thee in Jesus Christ,

may reign with Him in glory,

to whom with Thee and the Holy Spirit be praise and honour,

glory and might, now and in all eternity.

CONGREGATION: Amen.

The God of peace, who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus,

that great shepherd of the sheep,

through the blood of the eternal covenant,

make you perfect in every good work to do His will,

working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight.

And the blessing of God almighty,

the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit,

be among you and remain with you always.

CONGREGATION: Amen.

# Jesus Christ is risen today

# Alleluia

# Our triumphant holy day

# Alleluia

# Who did once, upon the cross

# Alleluia

# Suffer to redeem our loss

# Alleluia

# Hymns of praise Then let us sing

# Alleluia

# Unto Christ, our heavenly King

# Alleluia

# Who endured the cross and grave

# Alleluia

# Sinners to redeem and save

# Alleluia

# But the pains that he endured

# Alleluia

# Our salvation have procured

# Alleluia

# Now above the sky he's King

# Alleluia

# Where the angels ever sing

# Alleluia! #

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