Service Sheet for Sunday 12th April - Low Sunday - St. Paul’s Anglican Church

10/04/2026

Service Sheet for Sunday 12th April – Low Sunday

Celebrant: Fr. Benjamin Drury

Sung Mass for Low Sunday (Second Sunday of Easter)

Processional: 106 (Ave Virgo Virginum) Come, ye faithful, raise the strain

Resp. Psalm: Ps. 118

Gradual: 107 (Vulpius) Good Christian men, rejoice and sing!

Offertory: 125 (O Filii et Filiae) Ye sons and daughters of the King

Communion: 173 (St. Audrey) Blessed Thomas, doubt no longer

Recessional: 115 (Noel Nouvelet) Now the green blade riseth

The mass setting (Kyrie, Gloria, Creed, Sanctus, Agnus Dei) begins at page 562 in the New English Hymnal.

All are welcome to stay for refreshments after the liturgy

A reading from the Acts of the Apostles (2: 42-47)

The whole community remained faithful to the teaching of the

apostles, to the brotherhood, to the breaking of bread and to the prayers.The many miracles and signs worked through the apostles

made a deep impression on everyone. The faithful all lived together and owned everything in common; they sold their goods and pos-

sessions and shared out the proceeds among themselves according to what each one needed. They went as a body to the Temple every day but met in their houses for the breaking of bread; they shared

their food gladly and generously; they praised God and were looked up to by everyone. Day by day the Lord added to their community

those destined to be saved.

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God.

Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 118: Response: Give thanks to the Lord for he is good, for his love has no end.

Let the sons of Israel say: ‘His love has no end.’ Let the sons of Aaron say: ‘His love has no end.’

Let those who fear the Lord say: ‘His love has no end.’ (Response)

I was thrust down, thrust down and falling, but the Lord was my helper. The Lord is my strength and my song; he was my saviour.

There are shouts of joy and victory in the tents of the just. (Resp.)

The stone which the builders rejected has become the corner stone. This is the work of the Lord, a marvel in our eyes.

This day was made by the Lord; we rejoice and are glad. (Resp.)

A reading from the first letter of St. Peter (1: 3-9)

Blessed be God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who in his great mercy has given us a new birth as his sons, by raising Jesus Christ

from the dead, so that we have a sure hope and the promise of an inheritance that can never be spoilt or soiled and never fade away,

because it is being kept for you in the heavens. Through your faith,

God’s power will guard you until the salvation which has been prepared is revealed at the end of time. This is a cause of great joy for you, even though you may for a short time have to bear being plagued by all sorts of trials; so that, when Jesus Christ is revealed, your faith will have been tested and proved like gold – only it is more precious than gold, which is corruptible even though it bears testing by fire – and then you will have praise and glory and honour. You did not see him, yet you love him; and still without seeing him, you are already filled with a joy so glorious that it cannot be described, because you believe; and you are sure of the end to which your faith looks forward, that is, the salvation of your souls.

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God.

Gospel acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia!

Jesus said: ‘You believe because you can see me.

Happy are those who have not seen and yet believe.’ Alleluia!

The Lord be with you. And also with you.

+ A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to John (20: 19-31)

Glory to you, O Lord.

In the evening of that same day, the first day of the week, the doors were closed in the room where the disciples were, for fear of the

Jews. Jesus came and stood among them. He said to them, ‘Peace be with you’, and showed them his hands and his side. The disciples were filled with joy when they saw the Lord, and he said to them again,

‘Peace be with you. ‘As the Father sent me, so am I sending you.’

After saying this he breathed on them and said: ‘Receive the Holy Spirit.

For those whose sins you forgive, they are forgiven;

for those whose sins you retain, they are retained.’

Thomas, called the Twin, who was one of the Twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. When the disciples said, ‘We have seen the Lord’, he answered, ‘Unless I see the holes that the nails made in his hands and can put my finger into the holes they made, and unless I can put my hand into his side, I refuse to believe.’ Eight days later the disciples were in the house again and Thomas was with

them. The doors were closed, but Jesus came in and stood among them. ‘Peace be with you’ he said. Then he spoke to Thomas, ‘Put your finger here; look, here are my hands. Give me your hand; put it into my side. Doubt no longer but believe.’ Thomas replied, ‘My Lord and my God!’ Jesus said to him:

‘You believe because you can see me.

Happy are those who have not seen and yet believe.’

There were many other signs that Jesus worked and the disciples saw, but they are not recorded in this book. These are recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing this you may have life through his name.

The Gospel of the Lord: praise to you, O Christ

Almighty Father, who hast given thine only Son to die for our sins, and to rise again for our justification: Grant us so to put away the leaven of malice and wickedness, that we may alway serve thee in pureness of living and truth; through the merits of the same thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. (BCP Collect: First Sunday after Easter)

Church Open: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Services: Unless noted, liturgies are followed by refreshments

Weds. 15th April: 10 a.m.; Morning Prayer (BCP) Sunday 19th April: 10 a.m.; Sung Mass (Easter III) Wednesday 22nd April: 10 a.m.; Low Mass

Sunday 26th April: 10 a.m.; Sung Mass (Easter IV)

Next Sunday is the APCM (Annual Parochial Church Meeting), which shall be held in the church at 12 p.m., after Mass. If your name is on the chaplaincy’s electoral roll, you are encouraged to attend.

Quiz Evening: Friday, 24th April (Apollonos 6), 7:30 p.m. Please communicate with Jean Mertzanakis if you wish to participate, or inquire after further particulars.

Study group & walking group: details from Father Benjamin.

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