St Peter's Online: This Sunday

Sunday April 14

Third Sunday of Easter

Notices
Opening Hymn: All Hail The Power
Sentence of the Day
Collect of the Day
Lesson: Acts 3:12-19
Epistle: 1 John 3:1-7
Gradual Hymn: O Love That Will Not Let Me Go
Gospel: Luke 24:36b-48
Sermon
Prayers & Intercessions
Anthem: If Ye Love Me - Tallis
Closing Hymn: To God Be The Glory

Notices

Fisherfolk Newsletter & Pew Sheet for Sunday April 14

Opening Hymn: All Hail The Power

Sentence of the Day

Turn to God so that your sins may be wiped out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord.
Acts 3:19-20

Collect of the Day

Lord, help us to see:
to see what is eternally good and true,
and having seen, to go on searching
until we come to the joys of heaven.
This we ask through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.

Lesson

Acts 3:12-19

¹²When Peter saw this, he said to them: “Fellow Israelites, why does this surprise you? Why do you stare at us as if by our own power or godliness we had made this man walk? ¹³The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus. You handed him over to be killed, and you disowned him before Pilate, though he had decided to let him go. ¹⁴You disowned the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you. ¹⁵You killed the author of life, but God raised him from the dead. We are witnesses of this. ¹⁶By faith in the name of Jesus, this man whom you see and know was made strong. It is Jesus’ name and the faith that comes through him that has completely healed him, as you can all see.

¹⁷“Now, fellow Israelites, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did your leaders. ¹⁸But this is how God fulfilled what he had foretold through all the prophets, saying that his Messiah would suffer. ¹⁹Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord.

Epistle

1 John 3:1-7

¹See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. ²Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. ³All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.

⁴Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness. ⁵But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. And in him is no sin. ⁶No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him.

⁷Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. The one who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous.

Gradual Hymn: O Love That Will Not Let Me Go

Gospel

Luke 24:36b-48

³⁶Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”

³⁷They were startled and frightened, thinking they saw a ghost. ³⁸He said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds? ³⁹Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.”

⁴⁰When he had said this, he showed them his hands and feet. ⁴¹And while they still did not believe it because of joy and amazement, he asked them, “Do you have anything here to eat?” ⁴²They gave him a piece of broiled fish, ⁴³and he took it and ate it in their presence.

⁴⁴He said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms.”

⁴⁵Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures. ⁴⁶He told them, “This is what is written: The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, ⁴⁷and repentance for the forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. ⁴⁸You are witnesses of these things.

Sermon by Vicar Stuart Goodin

The resurrection of Jesus throws the gates wide open, so that all may be welcomed into the presence of God.

As our first reading today, from Acts 3, we heard part of a speech Peter makes to his fellow Israelites in response to one manifestation of this resurrection work.

A man who had been born lame is placed every day at one of the gates to the temple, a gate called Beautiful. He isn’t there to pray: he is there so that he can beg for money from those going through the gate into the temple courts to pray. I find it difficult to imagine what life must have been like for him. He has had to learn to cope with his physical deformity, which is so severe that he has to enlist the help of relatives or friends to carry him around... Read more...

Prayers & Intercessions

Prayers of the People for Sunday April 14

Anthem: If Ye Love Me - Tallis

Closing Hymn: To God Be The Glory