Sunday 19 April 2026
- General:
- Lectionary
3rd Sunday of Easter
Hymns marked with an asterisk (*) are suggested for more than one reading
Acts 2: 14a, 36-41
Almighty God, we come to make confession (StF 419)
Baptise us with your Spirit (StF 369)
Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine (StF 548)
I've come to wash my soul in the living water (StF 428)
Jesus is Lord! Creation's voice proclaims it (StF 353)
To the river, I am going (StF 541)
We have a gospel to proclaim (StF 418)
Psalm 116: 1-4, 12-19
Hymns echoing the psalmist’s theme
I will offer up my life (StF 446)
King of glory, King of Peace (StF 56)
O God, what offering shall I give (StF 562)
Sing of the Lord's goodness, Father of all wisdom (StF 65)
What shall we offer our good Lord (StF 671)
You give rest to the weary (StF 657)
1 Peter 1: 17-23
Behold the Lamb of God (StF 234)
Come, thou fount of every blessing (StF 494)
Father, whose everlasting love (StF 320)
Man of sorrows! What a name for the Son of God (StF 361)
Only by grace can we enter (StF 565)
The Church's one foundation is Jesus Christ her Lord (StF 690)
Victim divine, thy grace we claim (StF 600)
With gladness we worship (StF 17)
Luke 24: 13-35
Abide with me; fast falls the eventide (StF 141)
Be known to us in breaking bread (StF 573)
Before I take the body of the Lord (StF 575)
Bread is blessed and broken (StF 576)
Christ has risen while earth slumbers (StF 296)
Come, let us sing of a wonderful love (StF 443)
Come, Lord, be our guest (StF 580)
First of the week and finest day (StF 149)
Food to pilgrims given, food upon the way (StF 584)
From the breaking of the dawn (StF 156)
God who knows our darkest moments (website only)
In the darkness of the still night (StF 109)
Jesus, stand among us at the meeting of our lives (StF 30)
Listening God, you hear us when we cannot speak (StF 524)
Lord Jesus Christ, you have come to us (StF 594)
O thou who this mysterious bread did in Emmaus break (StF 597)
On the day of resurrection (StF 307)
On the journey to Emmaus with our hearts cold as stone (StF 308)
The world we thought we knew is changing fast (website only)
A prayer that we might be instruments of God's praise
Ow, Fadda! Eternal Creator, the story of our relationship as revealed in Scripture with you begins with a hymn; a hymn of creation. Thank you for the reminder that chaos and darkness give way to order and beauty.
Thank you, God, that the rhythms of music are written deep in our spirits. Yet because “guilty feet have got no rhythm” we too often feel like we might never dance again the way we danced with you. We come to you now in the language of one prison programme, Changing Tunes, asking you to change, to shift the narrative of hopelessness often running around in our head.
Make us once again instruments of praise; instruments of worship! Retune us, glue our cracked pots with gold like in Kintsugi master craft; make us more valuable than we recognise. Although we may feel fit for the rubbish pile, you see us. You greet us – sawbona! You see… our past, our heritage, our people and you smile. Sit with us as we learn to sing again, show us how to sing in harmony with you. Nature’s harmony. Yes, Fadda. Amen.
Leon Dundas, Managing Chaplain at HMP Exeter
A prayer for purity of heart and strength of purpose - Alternative Prayer
Grant us, O Lord, purity of heart and strength of purpose, that no passion may hinder us from knowing your will and no weakness from doing it. In your light we may see light clearly, and in your service find perfect freedom; through Christ our Lord. Amen.
St Augustine of Hippo (354-430)