Sunday services are conducted by a First and Second Reader and include music, hymns, prayer, and readings from the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. Unless otherwise indicated, Scriptural selections are from the King James Version of the Bible.
Sunday, April 5, 2026
Unless otherwise indicated, Scriptural quotations are from the King James Version of the Bible.
Susan Booth Mack Snipes, First Reader
Robert Witney, Second Reader
Subject: UNREALITY
Prelude
Bryan Ashley, Organist of The Mother Church
Fantasia in C minor, BWV 537/1 Johann Sebastian Bach
Adagio (from Organ Symphony No. 5) Charles-Marie Widor
Hymn 381
William P. McKenzie, words
Clement C. Scholefield, music
What brightness dawned in resurrection
And shone in Mary’s wondering eyes!
Her heart was thrilled with new affection,
She saw her Lord in life arise.
She knew the Christ, undimmed by dying,
Alive forevermore to save;
Creative Mind, all good supplying,
Had triumphed over cross and grave.
With hope and faith, like exiles yearning
For homelands loved through patient years,
The hearts of men are homeward turning
To God Who giveth rest from fears.
Assured and safe in Love’s protection,
Great peace have they, and unsought joy;
They rise from sin in resurrection,
And works of love their hands employ.
Scriptural Selection
Ps. 22:1–5, 7, 8, 11, 18, 19, 22–28
Prayer
Silent prayer, followed by the audible repetition of the Lord’s Prayer with its spiritual interpretation by Mary Baker Eddy
(Read in context)
Hymn 515
Mary Baker Eddy, words
Ryan Vigil, music
It matters not what be thy lot,
So Love doth guide;
For storm or shine, pure peace is thine,
Whate’er betide.
And of these stones, or tyrants’ thrones,
God able is
To raise up seed—in thought and deed—
To faithful His.
Aye, darkling sense, arise, go hence!
Our God is good.
False fears are foes—truth tatters those,
When understood.
Love looseth thee, and lifteth me,
Ayont hate’s thrall:
There Life is light, and wisdom might,
And God is All.
The centuries break, the earth-bound wake,
God’s glorified!
Who doth His will—His likeness still—
Is satisfied.
Music © 2017 The Christian Science Board of Directors.
Notices
Solo
Evan Bryant, Soloist of The Mother Church
Christ Is Risen
It was early in the morning
of the third and final day.
Alone Mary ventured near his tomb
and heard an angel say.
“Seek ye not Jesus here
for behold he is not dead.
Christ is alive and walks among you
it was done just as he said.”
Chorus
Alleluia, Christ is Risen.
Alleluia, Christ is Risen.
Moments later we beheld him
while fishing by the sea.
He called us his disciples
and said come dine with me.
There he taught us the final lesson
that takes away all fear.
Life overcoming death,
can be demonstrated here.
Chorus
Alleluia, Christ is Risen.
Alleluia, Christ is Risen.
Words by Joan Collister
Music by Robert Collister
© 2007 Whispering Chimes Music
Explanatory Note
Golden Text and Responsive Reading
Golden Text:
II Corinthians 4:14
We know that God, who raised the Lord Jesus, will also raise us with Jesus and present us to himself together with you.
The Golden Text is from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation.
Responsive Reading:
II Corinthians 4:6
Matthew 20:17–19
Matthew 27:1, 27, 35 (to :), 45, 51, 54
II Cor. 4:6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Matt. 20:17 And Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the twelve disciples apart in the way, and said unto them,
18 Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death,
19 And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again.
27:1 When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:
27 Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers.
35 And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots:
45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
51 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
54 Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.
The Bible Lesson-Sermon, the Explanatory Note, Golden Text and Responsive Reading are from the Christian Science Quarterly Bible Lesson, a publication copyrighted by the Christian Science Publishing Society.
Offertory and collection
Larghetto (from Sonata HWV 580) George Frideric Handel
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Hymn 413
Frances Thompson Hill, words
Arr. from Lyra Davidica, 1708, music
Let us sing of Easter gladness
That rejoices every day,
Sing of hope and faith uplifted;
Love has rolled the stone away.
Lo, the promise and fulfillment,
Lo, the man whom God hath made,
Seen in glory of an Easter
Crowned with light that cannot fade.
When we touch Truth’s healing garment
And behold Life’s purity,
When we find in Love the refuge
That is man’s security,
When we turn from earth to Spirit,
And from self have won release,
Then we see the risen Saviour;
Then we know his promised peace.
Living meekly as the Master,
Who of God was glorified,
Looking ever to the radiance
Of his wondrous Eastertide;
Freed of fear, of pain, and sorrow,
Giving God the honor due,
Every day will be an Easter
Filled with benedictions new.
Scientific Statement of Being
From Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, p.468, line 8
Correlative Scripture
I John 3:1-3
Benediction
Ps. 23:4 (to ;), 6 2nd and
Postlude
Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 J.S. Bach
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