Service Sheet for Sunday 10th May - Sixth Sunday of Easter - St. Paul’s Anglican Church

10/05/2026

Service Sheet for Sunday 10th May – Sixth Sunday of Easter

Celebrant: Fr Benjamin Drury

Sung Mass for the Sixth Sunday of Easter

Processional: 112 (St. Albinus) Jesus lives! thy terrors now

Resp. Psalm: Ps. 66

Gradual: 143 (Birling) Spirit of mercy, truth and love

Offertory: 105 (Wurtemburg) Christ the Lord is risen again!

Communion: 311 (Meirionydd) We pray thee, heavenly Father

Recessional: 121 (This Joyful Eastertide) This joyful Eastertide

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 (8: 5-8, 14-17)

Philip went to a Samaritan town and proclaimed the Christ to them. The people united in welcoming the message Philip preached, either because they had heard of the miracles he worked or because they saw them for

themselves. There were, for example, unclean spirits that came shrieking out of many who were possessed, and several paralytics and cripples were cured. As a result there was great rejoicing in that town.

When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them, and they went down

there, and prayed for the Samaritans to receive the Holy Spirit, for as yet he had not come down on any of them: they had only been baptised in the name of the Lord Jesus. Then they laid hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God.

Resp. Psalm: Ps. 66 Cry out with joy to God, all the earth

Cry out with joy to God all the earth, O sing to the glory of his name.

O render him glorious praise.

Say to God: ‘How tremendous your deeds! (Response) ‘Before you all the earth shall bow;

shall sing to you, sing to your name!’ Come and see the works of God,

tremendous his deeds among men. (Response) He turned the sea into dry land,

they passed through the river dry-shod.

Let our joy then be in him;

he rules for ever by his might. (Response) Come and hear, all who fear God.

I will tell what he did for my soul:

Blessed be God who did not reject my prayer nor withhold his love from me. (Response)

A reading from the first letter of St. Peter (3: 15-18)

Reverence the Lord Christ in your hearts and always have your answer ready for people who ask you the reason for the hope that you all have.

But give it with courtesy and respect and with a clear conscience, so that those who slander you when you are living a good life in Christ may be

proved wrong in the accusations that they bring. And if it is the will of God that you should suffer, it is better to suffer for doing right than for doing wrong.

Why, Christ himself, innocent though he was, had died once for sins, died for the guilty, to lead us to God. In the body he was put to death, in

the spirit he was raised to life.

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

Gospel acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia!

Jesus said: ‘If anyone loves me he will keep my word,

and my Father will love him, and we shall come to him.’ Alleluia!

The Lord be with you. And also with you.

+ A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to John (14: 15-21)

Glory to you, O Lord.

Jesus said to his disciples:

‘If you love me you will keep my commandments. I shall ask the Father,

and he will give you another Advocate to be with you for ever,

that Spirit of truth

whom the world can never receive

since it neither sees nor knows him; but you know him,

because he is with you, he is in you. I will not leave you orphans;

I will come back to you.

In a short time the world will no longer see me; but you will see me,

because I live and you will live.

On that day you will understand that I am in my Father and you in me and I in you.

Anybody who receives my commandments and keeps them will be one who loves me;

and anybody who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I shall love him and show myself to him.’

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

O Lord, from whom all good things do come: Grant to us thy humble servants, that by thy holy inspiration we may think those

things that be good, and by thy merciful guiding may perform the same; through our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.(BCP Collect: Fifth Sunday after Easter)

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

Services: Unless noted, liturgies are followed by refreshments

Wednesday 13th April: 10 a.m.; Low Mass

Sunday 17th May: 10 a.m.; Sung Mass (Easter VII) Wednesday 20th May.; 10 a.m. Low Mass

Community connect coffee morning: Thursday 14th May (10:30 -12:30), in the churchyard, which is also Ascension Day.

Study group & walking group: details from Father Benjamin.

Spring Bazaar: to be held at the church on 6th June. Further details may be had from churchwarden Lynn Stavrou. All donations

are very gratefully received, but please bring them the week before the bazaar only (from Monday, 1st June), as they cannot be stored conveniently at the church.

A booklet comprising the Little Hours of Prime (which may be said as a short form for morning prayer) and Compline (night prayer)

can be purchased from Oliver Knight. Please ask for details.

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