Collects and Prayers - April 4, 2010 - Easter Sunday

Greeting
Leader: Christ is risen!
People: Christ is risen, indeed!
Leader: Stones roll away, tombs are open, new possibilities are born, women sing for joy and men race to share the good news.
People: Light emerges from darkness; new life springs from the shadow of death.
Leader: He is not to be found among the dead, but here among the living.
People: Let us come to worship the living God. Alleluia!

Collect
Almighty God,
Through your son Jesus Christ, you overcame death
And opened to us the gate of everlasting life.
Grant that we,
Who celebrate the day of our Lord’s resurrection,
May, by the renewing of your Spirit
Arise from the death of sin to the life of righteousness;
Through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.