Collects and Readings
The resources for this week's services
Christ has been raised from the dead: the first fruits of those who sleep.
For as by man came death; by man has come also the resurrection of the dead; for as in Adam all die; even so in Christ shall be made alive.
1 Corinthians 15:20-22
Alleluia! Christ is risen!
He is risen indeed! Alleluia!
Eastertide
Sunday 8th May The Fourth Sunday of Easter
White
Collect
Almighty God,
whose Son Jesus Christ is the resurrection and the life:
raise us, who trust in him,
from the death of sin to the life of righteousness,
that we may seek those things which are above,
where he reigns with you
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
Post Communion
Merciful Father,
you gave your Son Jesus Christ to be the good shepherd,
and in his love for us to lay down his life and rise again:
keep us always under his protection,
and give us grace to follow in his steps;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Bible readings
Acts 9: 36-end
Revelation 7:9-end
Psalm 23
John 10:22-30
Sunday 15th May The Fifth Sunday of Easter
White
Collect
Almighty God,
who through your only-begotten Son Jesus Christ
have overcome death and opened to us the gate of everlasting life:
grant that, as by your grace going before us you put into our minds good desires,
so by your continual help
we may bring them to good effect;
through Jesus Christ our risen Lord,
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
Post Communion
Eternal God,
whose Son Jesus Christ is the way, the truth, and the life:
grant us to walk in his way,
to rejoice in his truth,
and to share his risen life;
who is alive and reigns, now and for ever.
Bible readings
Acts 11:1-18
Revelation 21:1-6
Psalm 148
John 13:31-35