Service Sheet for Sunday 26th April – fourth Sunday of Easter
Celebrant: Fr Benjamin Drury
Processional: 104 (Salzburg) At the Lamb’s high feast we sing
Psalm: Ps. 23
Gradual: 111 (Trier) Jesus Christ is risen
Offertory: 100 (Solemnis Haec Festivitas) The day draws on with golden light
Communion: 282 (Pastor Pastorum) Faithful Shepherd, feed me
Recessional: 457 (Dominus Regit Me) The King of love my shepherd is
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: 14-36-41)
On the day of Pentecost Peter stood up with the Eleven and addressed the crowd in a loud voice: ‘The whole House of Israel can be certain that God has made this Jesus whom you crucified both Lord and Christ.’
Hearing this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the apostles, ‘What must we do, brothers?’ ‘You must repent,’ Peter answered ‘and every one of you must be baptised in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. The promise that was made is for you and your children, and for all those who are far away, for all those whom the Lord our God will call to himself.’ He spoke to them for a long time using many arguments, and he urged them, ‘Save yourselves from this perverse generation.’ They were convinced by
his arguments, and they accepted what he said and were baptised. That very day about three thousand were added to their number.
The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God
Psalm: Ps. 23 (Chant: J. Turle)
The Lord is my shepherd : therefore can I lack nothing.
- He shall feed me in a green pasture : and lead me forth beside the waters of comfort.
- He shall convert my soul : and bring me forth in the paths of righteousness, for his Name’s
- Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil : for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff comfort
- Thou shalt prepare a table before me against them that trouble me : thou hast anointed my head with oil, and my cup shall be
- But thy loving-kindness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life : and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
A reading from the first letter of St. Peter (2: 20-25)
The merit, in the sight of God, is in bearing punishment patiently when you are punished after doing your duty.
This, in fact, is what you were called to do, because Christ suffered for you and left an example for you to follow the way he took. He had not
done anything wrong, and there had been no perjury in his mouth. He was insulted and did not retaliate with insults; when he was tortured he made no threats but he put his trust in the righteous judge. He was bearing our faults in his own body on the cross, so that we might die to our
faults and live for holiness; through his wounds you have been healed. You had gone astray like sheep but now you have come back to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.
The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God
Gospel acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia! I am the good shepherd, says the Lord;
I know my own sheep and my own know me. Alleluia! The Lord be with you. And also with you.
+ A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to John (10: 1-10)
Glory to you, O Lord.
Jesus said:
‘I tell you most solemnly, anyone who does not enter the sheepfold
through the gate, but gets in some other way is a thief and a brigand. The one who enters through the gate is the shepherd of the flock; the gatekeeper lets him in, the sheep hear his voice, one by one he calls his own
sheep and leads them out. When he has brought out his flock, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow because they know his voice. They
never follow a stranger but run away from him: they do not recognise the voice of strangers.’
Jesus told them this parable but they failed to understand what he meant by telling it to them.
So Jesus spoke to them again: ‘I tell you most solemnly,
I am the gate of the sheepfold. All others who have come are thieves and brigands; but the sheep took no notice of them. I am the gate.
Anyone who enters through me will be safe: he will go freely in and out and be sure of finding pasture.
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come so that they may have life and have it to the full.’ The Gospel of the Lord: praise to you, O Christ
Almighty God, who shewest to them that be in error the light of thy truth, to the intent that they may return into the way of
righteousness: Grant unto all them that are admitted into the fel-
lowship of Christ’s religion, that they may eschew those things that are contrary to their profession, and follow all such things as are
agreeable to the same; through our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. (BCP Collect: Third Sunday after Easter)
Church Open: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Services: Unless noted, liturgies are followed by refreshments
Wednesday 29th April: 10 a.m.; Low Mass
Sunday 3rd May: 10 a.m.; Sung Mass (Easter V)
Calendar of Saints: 29th April (St. Catherine of Siena); 1st May (St. Joseph the Worker); 2nd May (St. Athanasius); 3rd May (Sts. Philip and James the Less)
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.
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Senior Chaplain: Fr. Benjamin Drury SSC
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