Choral Eucharist for the 3rd Sunday of Easter - 23rd April, 2023
The Celebrant and Preacher is Fr Tony Lawrence, Curate of Ventnor and Bonchurch. Please join in at home with the singing of the hymns. You will find the words below in the Order of Service. OPENING HYMN: NEH 105 Christ the Lord Is risen again 1. Christ the Lord is risen again! Christ hath broken every chain! Hark, the angels shout for joy, Singing evermore on high, Alleluya! 2. He who gave for us his life, Who for us endured the strife, Is our Paschal Lamb to-day! We too sing for joy, and say Alleluya! 3. He who bore all pain and loss Comfortless upon the Cross, Lives in glory now on high, Pleads for us, and hears our cry. Alleluya! 4. He whose path no records tell, Who descended into hell; Who the strong man armed hath bound, And in highest heaven is crowned. Alleluya! 5. Now he bids us tell abroad How the lost may be restored, How the penitent forgiven, How we too may enter heaven. Alleluya! 6. Thou, our Paschal Lamb indeed, Christ, to-day thy people feed; Take our sins and guilt away, That we all may sing for ay, Alleluya! New Testament Reading: Acts 2: 14a, 36-41 “Then Peter said unto them, repent, and be baptised every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.” Epistle: 1 Peter 1:17-23 “Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently.” (GRADUAL) HYMN: NEH 83 Glory be to Jesus 1. Glory be to Jesus, Who, in bitter pains, Poured for me the life-blood From his sacred veins. 2. Grace and life eternal In that Blood I find; Blest be his compassion, Infinitely kind. 3. Blest through endless ages Be the precious stream, Which from endless torment Doth the world redeem. 4. Abel’s blood for vengeance Pleaded to the skies; But the Blood of Jesus For our pardon cries. 5. Oft as it is sprinkled On our guilty hearts, Satan in confusion Terror-struck departs. 6. Oft as earth exulting Wafts its praise on high, Hell with terror trembles, Heaven is filled with joy. 7. Lift ye then your voices; Swell the mighty flood; Louder still and louder Praise the precious Blood. Gospel: St Luke 24: 13-35 “And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them. And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight.” SERMON OFFERTORY HYMN: NEH 104 At the Lamb's high feast we sing 1. At the Lamb's high feast we sing Praise to our victorious King: Who hath washed us in the tide Flowing from his piercèd side; Praise we him whose love divine Gives the guests his blood for wine, Gives his body for the feast, Love the Victim, Love the Priest. 3. Mighty Victim from on high, Powers of hell beneath thee lie; Death is broken in the fight, Thou hast brought us life and light. Now thy banner thou dost wave, Conquering Satan and the grave. See the prince of darkness quelled; Heaven's bright gates are open held. 4. Paschal triumph, Paschal joy, Only sin can this destroy; From sin's death do thou set free, Souls re-born, dear Lord, in thee. Hymns of glory, songs of praise, Father, unto thee we raise. Risen Lord, all praise to thee, Ever with the Spirit be. COMMUNION HYMN: NEH 115 Now the green blade riseth 1. Now the green blade riseth from the buried grain, Wheat that in dark earth many days has lain; Love lives again, that with the dead has been: Love is come again like wheat that springeth green. 2. In the grave they laid Him, Love whom men had slain, Thinking that never He would awake again, Laid in the earth like grain that sleeps unseen: Love is come again like wheat that springeth green. 3. Forth He came at Easter, like the risen grain, He that for three days in the grave had lain; Quick from the dead, my risen Lord is seen: Love is come again like wheat that springeth green. 4. When our hearts are wintry, grieving, or in pain, Thy touch can call us back to life again, Fields of our hearts, that dead and bare have been: Love is come again like wheat that springeth green. CLOSING HYMN: NEH 400 Light of the minds that know him (tune: Day of Rest) 1. Light of the minds that know him, May Christ be light to mine! My sun in risen splendour, My light of truth divine; My guide in doubt and darkness, My true and living way, My clear light ever shining, My dawn of heaven's day. 2. Life of the souls that love him, May Christ be ours indeed! The living bread from heaven On whom our spirits feed; Who died for love of sinners To bear our guilty load, And make of life's brief journey A new Emmaus road.
