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

Psalm 16

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.