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Sunday April 20

Easter Day

Notices
Opening Hymn: Jesus Christ Is Risen Today
Sentence of the Day
Collect of the Day
Old Testment Lesson: Isaiah 65:17-25
New Testament Lesson: Acts 10:34-43
Gradual Hymn: The Day of Resurrection
Gospel: Luke 24:1-12
Sermon
Prayers & Intercessions
Anthem: He Is Risen
Closing Hymn: To God Be The Glory

Notices

Fisherfolk Newsletter & Pew Sheet for Sunday April 20

Opening Hymn: Jesus Christ Is Risen Today

Sentence of the Day

The Lord is risen indeed, alleluia!
Luke 24:34

Collect of the Day

Jesus Christ our Saviour,
you have delivered us from sin and death.
You have brought with the dawn
a new beginning and an empty tomb;
grant us strength and humility
to enter into life.
Hear this prayer for your love’s sake.
Amen.

Old Testament Lesson

Isaiah 65:17-25

¹⁷ “See, I will create
 new heavens and a new earth.
The former things will not be remembered,
 nor will they come to mind.
¹⁸ But be glad and rejoice forever
 in what I will create,
for I will create Jerusalem to be a delight
 and its people a joy.
¹⁹ I will rejoice over Jerusalem
 and take delight in my people;
the sound of weeping and of crying
 will be heard in it no more.

²⁰ “Never again will there be in it
 an infant who lives but a few days,
 or an old man who does not live out his years;
the one who dies at a hundred
 will be thought a mere child;
the one who fails to reach a hundred
 will be considered accursed.
²¹ They will build houses and dwell in them;
 they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
²² No longer will they build houses and others live in them,
 or plant and others eat.
For as the days of a tree,
 so will be the days of my people;
my chosen ones will long enjoy
 the work of their hands.
²³ They will not labor in vain,
 nor will they bear children doomed to misfortune;
for they will be a people blessed by the Lord,
 they and their descendants with them.
²⁴ Before they call I will answer;
 while they are still speaking I will hear.
²⁵ The wolf and the lamb will feed together,
 and the lion will eat straw like the ox,
 and dust will be the serpent’s food.
They will neither harm nor destroy
 on all my holy mountain,”
 says the Lord.

New Testament Lesson

Acts 10:34-43

³⁴Then Peter began to speak: “I now realize how true it is that God does not show favouritism ³⁵but accepts from every nation the one who fears him and does what is right. ³⁶You know the message God sent to the people of Israel, announcing the good news of peace through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all. ³⁷You know what has happened throughout the province of Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John preached — ³⁸how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, because God was with him.

³⁹“We are witnesses of everything he did in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They killed him by hanging him on a cross, ⁴⁰but God raised him from the dead on the third day and caused him to be seen. ⁴¹He was not seen by all the people, but by witnesses whom God had already chosen—by us who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. ⁴²He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one whom God appointed as judge of the living and the dead. ⁴³All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”

⁴⁴While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit came on all who heard the message. ⁴⁵The circumcised believers who had come with Peter were astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on Gentiles. ⁴⁶For they heard them speaking in tongues and praising God.

Then Peter said, ⁴⁷“Surely no one can stand in the way of their being baptized with water. They have received the Holy Spirit just as we have.” ⁴⁸So he ordered that they be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked Peter to stay with them for a few days.

Gradual Hymn: The Day of Resurrection

Gospel

Luke 24:1-12

¹ On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. ² They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, ³ but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. ⁴ While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. ⁵ In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead? ⁶ He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: ⁷ ‘The Son of Man must be delivered over to the hands of sinners, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.’ ” ⁸ Then they remembered his words.

⁹ When they came back from the tomb, they told all these things to the Eleven and to all the others. ¹⁰ It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the others with them who told this to the apostles. ¹¹ But they did not believe the women, because their words seemed to them like nonsense. ¹² Peter, however, got up and ran to the tomb. Bending over, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he went away, wondering to himself what had happened.

Sermon by Vicar Stuart Goodin

Sermon 20 April 2025 - Easter Day - Stuart Goodin

Prayers & Intercessions

Prayers of the People for Easter Day

Anthem: He Is Risen

Closing Hymn: To God Be The Glory