1/11 Funeral in Memory of Marian Frances Siegfreid
January 11, 2020
Old Testament Reading: Isaiah 64:1-9
If only you would rend open the heavens and come down! The mountains would quake at your presence. Be like the fire that kindles brushwood and makes water boil. Come down to make your name known to your enemies. The nations will tremble in your presence.
When you did awe-inspiring things that we did not expect, you came down and the mountains quaked in your presence. No one has ever heard, no one has paid attention, and no one has seen any god except you. You help those who wait for you.
You greeted the one who gladly does right and remembers your ways. You showed your anger because we’ve sinned. We have continued to sin for a long time. Can we still be saved? We have all become unclean and all our righteous acts are like permanently stained rags.
All of us shrivel like leaves, and our sins carry us away like the wind. No one calls on your name or tries to hold on to you. You have hidden your face from us. You have let us be ruined by our sins.
Yet now Lord you are our Father. We are the clay, and you are our potter. We are the work of your hands. Do not be too angry, Lord. Do not remember our sin forever. Now look, we are all your people.
Epistle Reading: 1 Corinthians 15:19-24
If Christ is our hope in this life only we deserve more pity than any other people, but now Christ has come back from the dead. He is the very first person of those who have died to come back to life.† Since a man brought death a man also brought life back from death. As everyone dies because of Adam so also everyone will be made alive because of Christ.
This will happen to each person in his own turn. Christ is the first then at his coming those who belong to him will be made alive. Then the end will come. Christ will hand over the kingdom to God the Father as he destroys every ruler, authority and power.
Gospel reading: Mark 16:1-8
When the day of rest was over Mary from Magdala, Mary (the mother of James), and Salome bought spices to go and anoint Jesus.
Very early on Sunday they were going to the tomb when the sun had just come up. They said to one another, “Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb?” When they looked up, they saw that the stone had been rolled away. It was a very large stone.
As they went into the tomb, they saw a young man. He was dressed in a white robe and sat on the right side. They were frightened. The young man said to them, “Do not fear! You are looking for Jesus from Nazareth who was crucified. He has been brought back to life. He is not here. Look at the place where they laid him. Now go and tell his disciples, and Peter, that he is going ahead of them to Galilee. There they will see him, just as he told them.”
They went out of the tomb and ran away. Shock and trembling had overwhelmed them. They didn’t say a thing to anyone because they were afraid.
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