Hymn suggestions for Sunday 27 April 2025
- General:
- Lectionary
2nd Sunday of Easter
Hymns marked with an asterisk (*) are suggested for more than one reading
Acts 5: 27-32
Alleluia, alleluia, give thanks to the risen Lord (StF 295)
Thine be the glory, risen, conquering Son (StF 313)
When you prayed beneath the trees, it was for me (StF 339)
Psalm 118: 14-29 or Psalm 150
Hymns echoing the psalmist’s theme
Sing a song, sing a joyful song (StF 310)
Sing of the Lord’s goodness, Father of all wisdom (StF 65)
Praise the Lord, his glories show (StF 84)
Praise the Lord who reigns above and keeps his courts below (StF 85)
When, in our music, God is glorified (StF 731)
For Psalm 118, also see Easter Day and Sunday 13 April
Revelation 1: 4-8
Crown him with many crowns (StF 347)
Jesus is the name we honour (StF 354)
Lo, he comes with clouds descending (StF 177)
Lord, enthroned in heavenly splendour (StF 593)
Low in the grave he lay (StF 305)
To God be the glory, great things he has done! (StF 94)
John 20: 19-31
Christ has risen while earth slumbers (StF 296)
Come, let us with our Lord arise (StF 148)
Empty, broken, here I stand, Kyrie eleison (StF 421)
I know that my Redeemer lives and ever prays for me (StF 502)
I know that my Redeemer lives, what joy the blest assurance gives! (StF 303)
Mary, you were there (website only)
Safe, locked inside that upper room (website only)
This joyful Eastertide (StF 314)
What peace is there for tarnished lives (website only)
We cannot measure how you heal (StF 655)
When Easter to the dark world came (StF 316)
When our futures are uncertain (website only)
A prayer of adoration
You are the One, the Holy One,
who looks on all you have made, with love.
You gaze at me, and your faithful kindness overwhelms me.
I fall silent before you, my words stalling,
as my heart breaks open and pours out my thanks, my delight in you.
The more I gaze back at you,
the more I see through your eyes;
I am born again in your devotion to your creation.
Let my words fall before you,
but grant me the words and the acts of love
you long for me to have for your world. Amen.
Kerry Tankard, District Chair, Yorkshire West District
A prayer for new hearts - Alternative Prayer
Give us a new heart, O God, free enough to live by faith, brave enough to endure in hope and generous enough to love without limit.
El Salvador, source untraced