Divine Sunday
April 26, 2025
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Responder: Lucia
Introductory Rite Karla:
We begin in the name of our Creative God, our brother Jesus, and Sophia Spirit. R: Amen
Opening Prayer Judy
Creator of compassion, of peace and justice, you guide all of Creation in wisdom and goodness by giving us the many examples of them in the life of Jesus, our teacher and brother. Open our hearts to the messages of the Gospel so that they may rule in our hearts and guide our lives in our daily behavior. So now is a time when it is appropriate that we should ask you to grant us the strength that we will need to renew our personal lifestyles so that we may imitate, more closely, the love of Jesus. God of Love, we know that you are with us, and in us, each day - yesterday, today, and every future day - as we make our efforts to progress in our conscious awareness of our responsibility to bring forth your kin-dom on Earth. Amen.
First Reading: Acts 5:12-16 Therese
A reading from the Acts of the Apostles.
Through the hands of the apostles, many signs and wonders occurred among the people. By mutual agreement, they used to meet on Solomon’s Porch. But none of the others dared to join them, even though the people held the apostles in great esteem. Even so, more and more believers, women and men in great numbers, were continually added to their community — to the extent that people even carried their sick relatives and friends into the street and laid them on cots and mattresses, in the hope that when Peter passed by, his shadow might fall on one or another of them. Crowds from the towns around Jerusalem would gather, too, bringing their sick people and those who were troubled by unclean spirits, and they were all being healed.
The Word of God. R. Thanks be to God!
SECOND SUNDAY AFTER EASTER — Psalm 118
Responder: Give thanks to Our God, who is good, whose love is everlasting.
Janet reads verses
Let the house of Israel say it, / "Your love is everlasting!"
Let the House of Aaron say it, / "Your love is everlasting!"
Let those who fear Our God say it, / "Your love is everlasting!"
R: Give thanks to Our God, who is good, whose love is everlasting.
I was pressed, about to fall, / but Our God came to my help.
Our God is my strength and my song. / Adonai, You are my savior.
Shouts of joy and safety rings / in the tents of the virtuous.
R: Give thanks to Our God, who is good, whose love is everlasting.
It was the stone rejected by the builders / that proved to be the keystone.
This is Our God's doing / and it is wonderful to see.
This is the day made memorable by Our God. / What immense joy for us!
R: Give thanks to Our God, who is good, whose love is everlasting.
Second Reading: Revelation 1:9-11, 12-13, 17-19 Kathy N
A reading from the book of Revelation.
I, John, your brother, who share with you the trial, the kindom and the perseverance we have in Jesus, was on the island of Patmos because I proclaimed God’s word and bore witness to Jesus. It was the first day of the week and I was in the Spirit, when suddenly I heard behind me a piercing voice like the sound of a trumpet, which said, “Write on a scroll what you see.” I turned around to see who spoke to me, and I saw seven lamp stands of gold and, among the lamp stands, a figure of human appearance wearing an ankle-length robe with a golden sash across its chest. When I saw it, I felt as though I was dead. It touched me with its right hand and said, “Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last, the Living One. Once I was dead, but now I live forever and ever. I hold the keys of death and the underworld. Write down, therefore, everything you see as they are now, and things that will take place in the future.
The Word of God. R. Thanks be to God!
Gospel Reading: John 20:19-31
A reading from the Holy Gospel according to John
In the evening of that same day, the first day of the week, the doors were locked in the room where the disciples were, for fear of the Temple authorities. Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you.” Having said this, the savior showed them the marks of crucifixion. The disciples were filled with joy when they saw Jesus, who said to them again, “Peace be with you. As Abba God sent me, so I am sending you.” After saying this, Jesus breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive anyone’s sins, they are forgiven. If you retain anyone’s sins, they are retained.” It happened that one of the Twelve, Thomas was absent when Jesus came. The other disciples kept telling him, “We have seen Jesus!” Thomas’ answer was, “I will never believe it without putting my finger in the nail marks and my hand into the spear wound.” On the eighth day, the disciples were once more in the room, and this time Thomas was with them. Despite the locked doors, Jesus came and stood before them, saying, “Peace be with you.” Then, to Thomas, Jesus said, “Take your finger and examine my hands. Put your hand into my side. Do not persist in your unbelief but believe!” Thomas said in response, “My Savior and my God!” Jesus then said, “You have become a believer because you saw me. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” Jesus performed many other signs as well— signs not recorded here — in the presence of the disciples. But these have been recorded to help you believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Only Begotten, so that by believing you may have life in Jesus’ Name.
The Good News of Salvation!
R. Glory and praise to our Savior Jesus Christ!
Homily
Sign of Peace Penny
Jesus the Christ, you said to your disciples, “My peace I give to you. My peace I leave you.” We ask you to look at the faith of those gathered. Give us your peace, so that we may spread your peace throughout the world. Let us now offer a sign of loving peace to each other.
Introduction to petitions Cathy W
With great faith we desire to work together in the building of Abba God’s reign on Earth we bring our prayers: For whom or what shall we pray?
Conclusion Of Petitions Linda
Most loving Creator, please hear and answer the prayers we have brought before you, as well as those which remain in our hearts. We also pray for our sisters and brothers who have no one else to pray for them, and we do this in the name of our brother Jesus. Amen
Offertory
Patti
Blessed are you Abba God of all creation! Through your goodness we have this bread to offer. Work of human hands, it will become for us the bread of life.
R: Blessed be Abba God forever
Jay Cee
Blessed are you, Abba God! Through your goodness we have this wine to offer. Work of human hands, it will become for us the cup of life.
R: Blessed be Abba God forever
Barbara
Pray sisters and brothers that our communal offering may be acceptable to Abba God.
R: May the holiest of holy accept this offering from our hands for the praise and glory of the Trinity for our good and the good of all of Abba God’s universal Church.
Eucharistic Prayer
Karla: May the trinity be with you.
R: And also with you
Karla: Lift your hearts.
R: We lift them up to the Lord
Karla: Let us give thanks to the Lord.
R: It is right and just.
John
Gracious Creator, source, and sustenance of life, redeeming presence to the pain and brokenness of our world, we call your healing power upon us and upon all we pray for today. Your generosity abounds throughout all generations. As we journey, help us to live the mystery, that we may fulfill our calling and co-create with you. Grant us the wisdom to recognize your gifts and hear your Word with open and responsive hearts.
Galen
For all you bring to our lives, and for all we seek amid pain and suffering, we acclaim your love and greatness, and we join with all creation to sing our hymn of praise:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZIKmNlqpVQ
Penny
Please place your hands over your bread and wine
We ask you to awaken in our hearts the empowering grace of your Sophia Spirit, who we call upon to transform our gifts of bread and wine into the body and blood of the Christ, to nourish and sustain us.
Karla
We remember that on the night before he died Jesus gathered with his
friends and family to celebrate the feast of Passover. During the meal he took bread, he blessed and broke it and shared it with all of them saying
ALL: “Take this and eat for this is my body.”
Karla:
As the meal was ending, Jesus took a cup of wine, prayed a blessing, and
shared it with all of them saying:
ALL: “Take this, all of you, and drink, for this is the cup of my blood, the blood of the new and everlasting covenant. Do this in memory of me.
Gina
We pray that in union with all people, living and dead, that we may strive to create a world where suffering and pain are diminished, where justice and peace are restored, and where all people can live in health and wholeness. We are united in acclaiming the Creator of life, whose abundance is offered to everyone until the Kindom arrives in the fullness of time.
R: Through Christ, with Christ and in Christ, in the unity of Sophia Spirit, all glory and honor is yours Creator, forever and ever. AMEN.
Our Father Rita
Our Father and Mother who are in heaven, hallowed be your names. Your kindom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us our daily bread and forgive us our failings as we forgive those who have failed us and lead us away from evil. For the kin-dom, the power and
the glory be yours, now and forever. Amen
Nick
Behold, this is the Lamb of God who invites all to this table to provide
food for our journey. How blessed are we who are called to this spiritual
table.
All: Jesus, you make us worthy to receive you, and we are healed.
Solemn Blessing and Dismissal
Karla:
Please extend your hands in a sign of blessing for all our community:
May the Fire of Love ignite our hearts and radiate help us to radiate that light throughout the world. May the Spirit of truth and justice always burn
within us. May we walk together as we support and tend to one another’s needs.
And may your life always be blessed in the name of our Creator, brother Jesus and Sophia Spirit
R: Amen
Dismissal Juanita
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