Evening Prayer: Sunday 20 April 2025

Sunday 20 April 2025

This is the new revised order for Daily Prayer authorised for experimental use. You can find the 2006 Revised version here.

Easter Day
Easter

O God make speed to save us;
O Lord make haste to help us.

Glory to God, Source of all Being, Eternal Word, and Holy Spirit;*
as it was in the beginning, is now, and shall be for ever.
Amen.

PSALMODY

Antiphon: With you is the well of life,* and in your light we see light.
(Psalm 36.9)

Opening (from (Psalm 36))

1. Your love, O Lord, reaches to the heavens,*
and your faithfulness to the clouds.

2. Your righteousness is like the strong mountains, your justice like the great deep;*
you save both man and beast, O Lord.

3. How priceless is your love, O God!*
your people take refuge under the shadow of your wings.

4. They feast upon the abundance of your house;*
you give them drink from the river of your delights.

Glory ...
or a suitable Hymn

Psalm 111

1. Hallelujah! I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart, *
in the assembly of the upright, in the congregation.

2. Great are the deeds of the Lord! *
They are studied by all who delight in them.

3. O Lord, your work is full of majesty and splendour, *
and your righteousness endures for ever.

4. You make your marvellous works to be remembered; *
you are gracious and full of compassion.

5. You give food to those who fear you; *
you are ever mindful of your covenant.

6. You have shown your people the power of your works *
in giving them the lands of the nations.

7. The works of your hands are faithfulness and justice; *
all your commandments are sure.

8. They stand fast for ever and ever, *
because they are done in truth and equity.

9. You send redemption to your people; you commanded your covenant for ever; *
holy and awesome is your name.

10. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; *
those who act accordingly have a good understanding; the praise of the Lord endures for ever.

Glory …

Psalm 113

1. Hallelujah! Give praise, you servants of the Lord; *
praise the name of the Lord.

2. Let the name of the Lord be blessed, *
from this time forth for evermore.

3. From the rising of the sun to its going down *
let the name of the Lord be praised.

4. The Lord is high above all nations, *
and is glorious above the heavens.

5. Who is like the Lord our God, *
who sits enthroned on high,

6. but stoops to behold *
the heavens and the earth?

7. The Lord takes up the weak out of the dust *
and lifts up the poor from the ashes.

8. The Lord sets them with the rulers, *
with the rulers of this people,

9. making the woman of a childless house *
to be a joyful mother of children.

Psalm 114

1. Hallelujah! When Israel came out of Egypt, *
the house of Jacob from a people of strange speech,

2. Judah became the sanctuary of the Lord *
and Israel the dominion of God.

3. The sea beheld it and fled; *
Jordan turned and went back.

4. The mountains skipped like rams, *
and the little hills like young sheep.

5. What ailed you, O sea, that you fled? *
O Jordan, that you turned back?

6. You mountains, that you skipped like rams? *
You little hills like young sheep?

7. Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, *
at the presence of the God of Jacob,

8. who turned the hard rock into a pool of water *
and flint-stone into a flowing spring.

Conclusion

Colossians 1

1. Give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ;*
he has delivered us from the dominion of darkness.

2. He has transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,*
in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of our sins.

3. He is the image of the invisible God,*
the first-born of all creation.

4. For in him all things were created,*
in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible.

5 He is the head of the body, the church;*
he is the beginning, the first-born from the dead.

6. In him all the fulness of God was pleased to dwell,*
to reconcile all things to himself, making peace by the blood of his cross.

Glory …

Antiphon: With you is the well of life,* and in your light we see light.

READING(S)

John 20.11-18

But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb; and she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had been lying, one at the head and the other at the feet. They said to her, ‘Woman, why are you weeping?’ She said to them, ‘They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.’ When she had said this, she turned round and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, ‘Woman, why are you weeping? For whom are you looking?’ Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, ‘Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.’ Jesus said to her, ‘Mary!’ She turned and said to him in Hebrew, ‘Rabbouni!’ (which means Teacher). Jesus said to her, ‘Do not hold on to me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, “I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.” ’ Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, ‘I have seen the Lord’; and she told them that he had said these things to her.

Silence

Response (Psalm 30.1)

I will exalt you, O Lord, for you have lifted me up; alleluia, alleluia.
I will exalt you, O Lord, for you have lifted me up; alleluia, alleluia.
You have not let my enemies triumph over me.
Alleluia, alleluia.
Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.
I will exalt you, O Lord, for you have lifted me up; alleluia, alleluia.

SONG OF MARY

Song of Mary Antiphon: The Lord is risen indeed,* alleluia!

1 My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord,
*my spirit rejoices in God my Saviour;
2 for he has looked with favour on his lowly servant;*
from this day all generations will call me blessed.
3 The Almighty has done great things for me*
and holy is his name.
4 He has mercy on those who fear him*
in every generation.
5 He has shown the strength of his arm;*
he has scattered the proud in their conceit.
6 He has cast down the mighty from their thrones*
and has lifted up the lowly.
7 He has filled the hungry with good things,*
and the rich he has sent away empty.
8 He has come to the help of his servant Israel,*
for he has remembered his promise of mercy,
9 the promise he made to our forebears,*
to Abraham and his children for ever.

Glory to the Father... (may be said by all)

Song of Mary Antiphon: The Lord is risen indeed,* alleluia!

PRAYERS

Lord, have mercy upon us.
Christ, have mercy upon us.
Lord, have mercy upon us.

Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us our sins
as we forgive those who sin against us.
Do not bring us to the time of trial,
but deliver us from evil.
For the kingdom, the power,
and the glory are yours,
now and for ever. Amen.

Collect of the Day

Almighty God, who, through your Son, Jesus Christ,
have overcome death and opened the gates of eternal life:
grant that we, who celebrate with joy the day of his resurrection,
may be raised from the death of sin by your life-giving Spirit;
through the same Jesus Christ, our Lord,
who lives and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, world without end
Amen

Lord God almighty, come and dispel the darkness from our hearts, that in the radiance of your brightness we may know you, the only unfading light, glorious in all eternity.
Amen.

Let us bless the Lord:
Thanks be to God!

The God of hope fill us with all joy and peace in believing:
through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.