Hymn suggestions for Sunday 18 May 2025
5th Sunday of Easter
Aldersgate Sunday
Readings and hymns for John and Charles Wesley marking Aldersgate Sunday are given on Wesley Day (24 May). Also see Aldersgate – what changed for the Wesleys?
Hymns marked with an asterisk (*) are suggested for more than one reading
Acts 11: 1-18
Come, all who look to Christ today (StF 678)
For all he came, for all he lived (website only)
*Let earth and heaven agree (StF 358)
Now let us from this table rise (StF 596)
One human family God has made (StF 687)
The trumpets sound, the angels sing (StF 35)
There’s a wideness in God’s mercy (StF 416)
We come from the mountains, the valleys and plains (StF 417)
What shall I do my God to love (StF 436)
Psalm 148
Hymns echoing the psalmist’s theme
All creatures of our God and King (StF 99)
Praise the Lord! You heavens, adore him (StF 86)
*Sing of a God in majestic divinity (StF 13)
Revelation 21: 1-6
Jesus, stand among us at the meeting of our lives (StF 30)
God is here! As we his people (StF 25)
Hark the glad sound! The Saviour comes (StF 171)
*Let earth and heaven agree (StF 358)
Praise to the God who clears the way (StF 183)
The Church’s one foundation (StF 690)
The God who sings a new world into being (StF 714)
There is a new heaven; there is a new earth (StF 738)
John 13: 31-35
A new commandment I give unto you (StF 242)
Before I take the body of my Lord (StF 575) communion
Be still and know that I am God (StF 18)
Christ is the world’s light, Christ and none other (StF 346)
God who sets us on a journey (website only)
If we claim to love our neighbour (website only)
There’s a spirit in the air (StF 398)
*Sing of a God in majestic divinity (StF 13)
We gather round this table (website only)
You are the Vine, we are the branches (StF 258)