The Second Sunday of Easter
Join us for today’s prayers, music and Bible Readings this Second Sunday of Easter.
We start with a Prayer for Peace, hoping for a safer world without conflict or pain caused by unrest and war:
Almighty God, from whom all thoughts of truth and peace proceed: kindle, we pray, in the hearts of all, the true love of peace and guide with your pure and peaceable wisdom those who take counsel for the nations of the earth that in tranquillity your kingdom may go forward, till the earth is filled with the knowledge of your love; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
Opening Hymn 105
Christ the Lord is risen again
The Collect for Today
Risen Christ, for whom no door is locked, no entrance barred: open the doors of our hearts, that we may seek the good of others and walk the joyful road of sacrifice and peace, to the praise of God the Father. Amen.
The Readings
Acts 2:14a, 22-32
1 Peter 1: 3-9
John 20: 19-end
The Psalm
The Anthem
This joyful Eastertide – Charles Wood
Hymn 103
Alleluya! Alleluya! Hearts to heaven and voices raise
The Intercessions
Hymn 361
Forth in the peace of Christ we go
Closing Prayers
Lord God our Father, through our Saviour Jesus Christ you have assured your children of eternal life and in baptism have made us one with him: deliver us from the death of sin and raise us to new life in your love, in the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
The peace of God, which passes all understanding, keep your hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God, and of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord; and the blessing of God almighty, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, be among you and remain with you always. Amen.
Go in peace to love and serve the Lord. In the name of Christ. Amen.
