Service Sheet for Sunday 5th April 2026 - Easter.Sunday - St. Paul’s Anglican Church

02/04/2026

Service Sheet for Sunday 5th April 2026 – Easter.Sunday

Celebrant: Fr. Benjamin Drury

High Mass (Missa Cantata) for Easter Sunday

Processional: 110 (Easter Hymn) Jesus Christ is risen today!

Resp. Psalm: Ps. 118 (539 in the New English Hymnal) Gradual: 123 (Dun Aluinn) Walking in a garden

Offertory: 124 (St. Fulbert) Ye choirs of new Jerusalem

Communion I: 113 (Savannah) Love’s redeeming work is done Communion II: 121 (This Joyful Eastertide) This joyful Eastertide Communion III: 117 (Ellacombe) The day of resurrection

Recessional: 120 (Maccabeus) Thine be the glory

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

All are welcome to stay for the Easter breakfast after the liturgy.

A reading from the Acts of the Apostles (10: 34, 37-43)

Peter addressed Cornelius and his household: ‘You must have

heard about the recent happenings in Judaea; about Jesus of Nazareth and how he began in Galilee, after John had been preach-

ing baptism. God had anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, and because God was with him, Jesus went about doing

good and curing all who had fallen into the power of the devil. Now I, and those with me, can witness to everything he did throughout

the countryside of Judaea and in Jerusalem itself: and also to the fact that they killed him by hanging him on a tree, yet three days afterwards God raised him to life and allowed him to be seen, not

by the whole people but only by certain witnesses God had chosen beforehand. Now we are those witnesses – we have eaten and drunk with him after his resurrection from the dead – and he has ordered us to proclaim this to his people and to tell them that God has

appointed him to judge everyone, alive or dead. It is to him that

all the prophets bear this witness: that all who believe in Jesus will have their sins forgiven through his name.’

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God.

Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 118: Response: This is the day of the Lord, we rejoice and are glad (text at number 539 in the New English Hymnal)

A reading from the letter of St. Paul to the Colossians (3: 1-4)

Since you have been brought back to true life with Christ, you must look for the things that are in heaven, where Christ is, sitting at

God’s right hand. Let your thoughts be on heavenly things, not on the things that are on the earth, because you have died, and now

the life you have is hidden with Christ in God. But when Christ is revealed – and he is your life – you too will be revealed in all your glory with him.

The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God.

Gospel acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia!

Christ, our passover, has been sacrificed:

let us celebrate the feast then, in the Lord. Alleluia!

The Lord be with you. And also with you.

+ A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to John (20: 1-9)

Glory to you, O Lord.

It was very early on the first day of the week and still dark, when Mary of Magdala came to the tomb. She saw that the stone had

been moved away from the tomb and came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved. ‘They have taken the Lord out of the tomb’ she said ‘and we don’t know where they have put him.’

So Peter set out with the other disciple to go to the tomb. They ran together, but the other disciple, running faster than Peter,

reached the tomb first; he bent down and saw the linen cloths lying on the ground, but did not go in. Simon Peter who was following

now came up, went right into the tomb, saw the linen cloths on the ground, and also the cloth that had been over his head; this was

not with the linen cloths but rolled up in a place by itself. Then the other disciple who had reached the tomb first also went in; he saw and he believed. Till this moment they had failed to understand

the teaching of scripture, that he must rise from the dead.

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

Solemn Blessing: May almighty God bless you through today’s Easter Solemnity

and, in his compassion, defend you from every assault of sin.

Amen.

And may he, who restores you to eternal life in the Resurrection of his Only Begotten, endow you with the prize of immortality.

Amen.

Now that the days of the Lord’s Passion have drawn to a close, may you who celebrate the gladness of the Paschal Feast

come with Christ’s help, and exulting in spirit, to those feasts that are celebrated in eternal joy. Amen.

And may the blessing of almighty God,

the Father, and the Son, + and the Holy Spirit, come down on you and remain with you for ever. Amen.

Almighty God, who through thine only-begotten Son Jesus

Christ hast overcome death, and opened unto us the gate of everlasting life: We humbly beseech thee, that as by thy special grace preventing us thou dost put into our minds good desires, so by thy continual help we may bring the same to good effect; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen. (BCP: Easter Day)

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

Services: Unless noted, liturgies are followed by refreshments

Sunday 5th April: 9 p.m.; Compline

Weds. 8th April: 10 a.m.; Low Mass (Wednesday in Easter Week) Sunday 12th April: 10 a.m.; Sung Mass (Low Sunday)

Wednesday 15th April: 10 a.m.; Low Mass

Sunday 19th April: 10 a.m.; Sung Mass (Easter III)

We thank all those who have contributed – in whatever way – to the life of the chaplaincy in Lent, Holy Week, and Easter. If you wish to become further involved in what we do week by week through the year, please talk to Father Benjamin, or churchwarden Oliver Knight: there are many different ways of participating in the life of the church.

Electoral roll: please speak to the verger, Virginia Stevens, if you are a regular worshipper at this church but are not yet on the roll. APCM: The chaplaincy’s annual meeting is to be held on April, 19th, after the Sunday’s Mass, and all those whose names are on the electoral roll are encouraged to attend.

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