Title: On the Road Again – Journey Toward Easter (1511)
Origin: Cityside: Quiet Service, Sunday 18 March, 2001. Third Sunday in Lent. This service is rerun most years in a similar form early on in Lent in order to tell the Easter story in a large continuous chunk.
Theme:
The Easter Story
Mood:
Reflective, slow, melancholic.
Setup:
Screen at one end or side, communion elements on low table/altar. Cushions for people to lie on.
Gear:
Slide projector, CD player, handouts or slides with responsive readings, communion elements. Slides projected onto ceiling.
Running order:
1. Prelude: TRACKs ex Passion, Peter Gabriel. SLIDE: Welcome…
(Announce title/artist for each slide; slide up before readings)
2. SLIDE: Christ as the Man of Sorrows (William Dyce, 19th century)
READING: Matthew 21/1-11 (Entry into Jerusalem)
RESPONSIVE READING: A. (ex Stages on the Way: Worship resources of Lent, Holy Week and Easter (Wild Goose Worship Group, Wild Goose Publications: Glasgow, 1998) page 66f, ‘He Will Walk.’
3. SLIDE: Christ Delivered to the People (Sir Stanley Spencer, 20th century)
READING: Matthew 27/11-26
RESPONSIVE READING: B. (ex Stages on the Way page 66f, ‘He Will Walk.’)
4. SLIDE: ‘The Mocking of Christ’ (Matthias Stomer, 17th century)
READING: Matthew 27/27-31
4a. SLIDE: ‘The Road to Calvary’ (Benzo Gozzolli, 15th century)
5. SLIDE: ‘The Raising of the Cross’ (Procaccini, 17th century)
6. SLIDE: ‘Crucifixion’ Shoalhaven (Arthur Boyd, contemporary Australian)
RESPONSIVE READING: C
7. SLIDE: ‘The Giving Up’ (Brett Whitely, contemporary Australian)
READING: Matthew 27/45, 46, 50, 55, 56.
8. SLIDE: Broken bread. (Stop TRACK)
Words of institution; self help communion whenever wish to. Four slides to go after. Leave whenever you’re ready to after that.
TRACK: ‘Were You There…?’ Kathleen Battle #12 ex Grace
(No TRACK now until POSTLUDE)
9. RESPONSIVE READING: D (‘Where Christ Walks’, ex Stages on the Way page 54)
10. SLIDE: ‘The Act of Joseph of Arimathea’ (Tadao Tanaka, Japan)
READING: Matthew 27/57-61
11. SLIDE: ‘The Holy Women at the Sepulchre’ (Peter Paul Rubens, 17th century)
READING: Matthew 28/1-9
- SLIDE: ‘The Resurrection’ (Dieric Bots, 15th century)
- SLIDE: ‘I Am’ (Colin McCahon, New Zealand, contemporary) slide remains up…
- POSTLUDE: TRACK: ex Passion., Peter Gabriel.