Lectionary 12/04/2026
- Second Sunday of Easter - Year A
John 20:19-31
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - The Second Sunday of Easter Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - The Second Sunday of Easter Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
The Second Sunday of Easter - Year A Meditation on John 20: 19-31 Gaze on the doors of the house – note the plural. First there is the heavy external door, the main protection for the property, made of solid wood with massive hinges, and then another at the top of the stairs behi…
Lectionary Reflections Year A - The Second Sunday of Easter - Year A
Lectionary Reflections Year A - The Second Sunday of Easter - Year A
by SPCK - Jane Williams
The Second Sunday of Easter - Year A Acts 2.14a, 22–32 1 Peter 1.3–9 John 20.19–31 What makes people believe? Probably the reasons are as numerous as the people who give them. Today’s readings provide just a few examples. In the Gospel, we have two sets of responses. First of all…
Twelve Months of Sundays Year A - Second Sunday of Easter - Year A
Twelve Months of Sundays Year A - Second Sunday of Easter - Year A
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Second Sunday of Easter - Year A Acts 2.14a, 22–32 1 Peter 1.3–9 John 20.19–31 Jesus’ resurrection scattered new meanings all around, like light reflecting a thousand ways off a priceless jewel. The first thing was the validation of Jesus’ messianic ministry. His powerful dee…
Clouds and Glory Year A - The Second Sunday of Easter - Year A
Clouds and Glory Year A - The Second Sunday of Easter - Year A
by SPCK - David Adam
The Second Sunday of Easter Acts 2. 14a, 22-32 : Psalm. 16: 1 Peter 1. 3-9 : John 20. 19-31 Blessing and praise be to you, Lord our God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By your great mercy you have given us new life and new hope through the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Chri…
O God you give us all we need
O God you give us all we need
by Andrew Pratt
Hymn: O God you give us all we need Second Sunday of Easter Psalm 16; John 20: 19 – 31 O God you give us all we need, our future is within your grace, though death has spun our lives around you bring us hope, you show your face. You are our refuge, shelter, strength, the ground o…
What peace is there for tarnished lives
What peace is there for tarnished lives
by Andrew Pratt
Hymn: What peace is there for tarnished lives Second Sunday of Easter - John 20: 19 – 31 What peace is there for tarnished lives, when love is challenged, hate survives? Remember in that Upper Room, Christ came and offered peace. What peace for Peter who denied his friend who hun…
Safe, locked inside that upper room
Safe, locked inside that upper room
by Marjorie Dobson
Hymn: Safe, locked inside that upper room Second Sunday of Easter - John 20: 19 – 31 Safe, locked inside that upper room, too scared to let the truth be known, disciples had to see their Lord before that truth could be their own. And Thomas, still so full of doubt, would not beli…
Thomas
Thomas
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem/Dramatic Monologue: Thomas Second Sunday of Easter - John 20: 19 – 31 It must have felt like walking into a nightmare. All those sensible, down-to-earth friends of yours, ranting and raving; telling you the most bizarre stories; jumping up and down with excitement, flinging …
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Easter Saturday Year B
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B - Easter Saturday Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
Lent for Everyone Mark Year B EASTER SATURDAY... One of the most popular misconceptions today is the idea that everybody up to about two centuries ago was credulous, gullible, easily taken in by strange stories and odd beliefs. We, however, with our modern ‘scientific’ knowledge,…
Twelve Months of Sundays Year B - The Second Sunday of Easter Year B
Twelve Months of Sundays Year B - The Second Sunday of Easter Year B
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Second Sunday of Easter Acts 4.32-35 1 John 1.1-2.2 John 20.19-31 ‘Peace be with you’, said Jesus. And again, two verses later, ‘Peace be with you.’ Like a great bell, a single note with multiple overtones, the promise of peace tolls out across the world. Not just an inner pe…
Gazing on the Gospels Year B - The Second Sunday of Easter Year B
Gazing on the Gospels Year B - The Second Sunday of Easter Year B
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
The Second Sunday of Easter John 20.19-31 Gaze on Jesus. He looks exhausted and worn out, as if he’s been on a long journey. But there is no mistake, it is certainly him. He’s appeared when he was least expected. Gaze on the disciples, nervous and jittery. What a state the discip…
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - The Second Sunday of Easter Year B
Lectionary Reflections - Year B - The Second Sunday of Easter Year B
by SPCK - Jane Williams
The Second Sunday of Easter Acts 4.32–35 1 1 John 1.1—2.2 John 20.19–31 The recent popularity of The Lord of the Rings has helpfully given new vitality to the word ‘fellowship’. The people who make up the ‘fellowship of the ring’ are not natural allies. They have little in comm…
Hymn: Doubt, composed in whispered voices
Hymn: Doubt, composed in whispered voices
by Andrew Pratt
Doubt, composed in whispered voices, nailed their thoughts through waiting days: days of shattered expectation, days devoid of love or praise. Boulders blocked imagination like the stone that sealed the tomb, startled, frightened, apprehensive, shut inside an upper room. Verses 2…
Hymn/song: Always missing, never grasping
Hymn/song: Always missing, never grasping
by Andrew Pratt
(Doubting Thomas after Leonard Cohen’s song 'Suzanne' which has the line: '…and Jesus was a sailor...') Always missing, never grasping, hope amid this shifting sea, coast and haven seem remote now, too far off to harbour me. Yet those fishermen are telling news that I can't compr…
Poem: Always missing, never grasping
Poem: Always missing, never grasping
by Andrew Pratt
(Doubting Thomas after Leonard Cohen’s song 'Suzanne' which has the line: '…and Jesus was a sailor...') Always missing, never grasping, hope amid this shifting sea, coast and haven seem remote now, too far off to harbour me. Yet those fishermen are telling news that I can't compr…
Prayer: Living God
Prayer: Living God
by Marjorie Dobson
Prayer: Living God Living God, we are some of those people who have not seen Jesus, but yet we have believed. There are times when we have felt that you were very close to us and times when we know you have held us through difficult patches in our lives. But we recognize that the…
Gazing on the Gospels year c - The Second Sunday of Easter Year C
Gazing on the Gospels year c - The Second Sunday of Easter Year C
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
The Second Sunday of Easter John 20.19-31 Gaze on the faces of the disciples, their jaws clenched, eyes half shut, pictures of defeat. So far we have been gazing on expressions of fright and grief, of doubt and confusion. They’ve seen the stone rolled away, and they’ve seen the e…
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - The Second Sunday of Easter Year C
Twelve Months of Sunday year c - The Second Sunday of Easter Year C
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Second Sunday of Easter Acts 5.27–32 Revelation 1.4–8 John 20.19–end The report of Jesus’ resurrection strikes the chief priests as a threat of God’s judgement. Yes and no, reply the apostles: your guilt is swallowed up in the message of forgiveness, of new Spirit-given life.…
Lectionary Reflection Year C - The Second Sunday of Easter Year C
Lectionary Reflection Year C - The Second Sunday of Easter Year C
by SPCK - Jane Williams
The Second Sunday of Easter Exodus 14.10–31; 15.20–1 Acts 5.27–32 John 20.19–31 People are very good at doubting. We seem to be able to move with effortless ease from the utmost certainty to the utmost doubt within moments. In the reading from Exodus today, just remember what has…
Poem: Doubt and faith
Poem: Doubt and faith
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: Doubt and faith It’s easy now for us to say we would have known that Easter Day that all was well, but those who saw his cruel cross found, in their devastating loss, a living hell. It’s easy in that garden tomb to know that light pierced through the gloom and brought relie…
Monologue/Reflection: Peter reflects after Easter
Monologue/Reflection: Peter reflects after Easter
by Andrew Pratt
Monologue/Reflection: Peter reflects after Easter I suppose no one knew quite what to say. Days had passed. At the height of the festival Jesus had been tried and executed. For the crowds that was becoming a memory. Many folk were returning home. Clouds of dust swirled around the…
Surprising God you come in peace
Surprising God you come in peace
by Andrew Pratt
Surprising God you come in peace, in answer to our prayer, when all is lost, when friends are gone, we find that you are there. Verses 2-3 follow Tune: WILTSHIRE Metre: CM Andrew Pratt (born 1948) Words © 21/3/2013 Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England, www.stainer.co.uk. Please…
LWPT Meditations - Second Sunday of Easter - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Second Sunday of Easter - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 2nd Sunday of Easter Year C Acts 5:27-32 Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24 John 20:19-31 We call him “Doubting Thomas” for a single mistake that he made. Thomas, one of the twelve disciples of Jesus, was not there when the Lord appeared to the rest of them after his resurrection…
LWPT Meditations - Second Sunday of Easter - Year B
LWPT Meditations - Second Sunday of Easter - Year B
by Susan Thorne
Meditation - 2nd Sunday of Easter Year B 1st John 1: 1-2:2 John 20: 19-31 Apart from Judas Iscariot, the betrayer, Thomas is the most notorious of Jesus’ disciples. He is known universally as “Doubting Thomas”. I wonder how many of us sympathise with Thomas, or even identify with…
Meditation - 2nd Sunday of Easter Year A
Meditation - 2nd Sunday of Easter Year A
by David Middleton
Meditation - 2nd Sunday of Easter Time Year A Go and tell others! John 20: 19-31 I’ll never forget the first time we saw Jesus after his resurrection. It was the first day of the week. We’d spent all Sabbath moping around and wondering what to do with ourselves; after three years…
LWPT Meditations - Second Sunday of Easter - Year A
LWPT Meditations - Second Sunday of Easter - Year A
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – Second Sunday of Easter Year A Acts 2:14a, 22-32 Psalm 16 1 Peter 1:3-9 John 20:19-31 In these readings, for the week following Easter, we see the value of what Jesus’ death and resurrection bought for us, the outworking of our salvation... Created by Susan Thorne on…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Second Sunday of Easter - Year A
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Second Sunday of Easter - Year A
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Second Sunday of Easter - Year A Service contains: Opening Hymn: This joyful Eastertide, or Amid the flowers of Easter Prayer: Prayer based on 1 Peter 1:3-9 Reading: Psalm 16 Hymn: Jesu, lover of my soul, or O God you give us all we need Reading: John 20:19–31 Hymn: Be Thou my vi…
Traces of Glory Year B - The Second Sunday of Easter - Year B
Traces of Glory Year B - The Second Sunday of Easter - Year B
by SPCK - David Adam
The Second Sunday of Easter Christ, our risen Lord, no tomb can keep you, No door is closed to you, ne heart is barred to you, No mind is shut off from you. Come lead us out of the darkness into light, Out of doubt into faith, out of death into life eternal: Jesus Christ our rise…
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Second Sunday of Easter - Year B
Times and Seasons - Full Service - Second Sunday of Easter - Year B
by Andrew Pratt and Marjorie Dobson
Second Sunday of Easter - Year B Service contains: Hymn: Christ is alive! Let Christians sing or A commonwealth of love Prayer: Living God Psalm 133 Poem: How wonderful Reading: Acts 4:32-35 Hymn: Christ is the world’s light, he and none other or One heart, one soul one mind Read…
glimpses of glory - The Second Sunday of Easter - Year C
glimpses of glory - The Second Sunday of Easter - Year C
by SPCK - David Adam
The Second Sunday of Easter Christ our God, risen from the dead, come and enter into the darkness of our doubt and despair, with the bright light of your presence, that we may put trust in you and in the power of your resurrection, that we may rejoice in you the risen Lord, our s…
The Act of Prayer Year C - Second Sunday of Easter - Year C
The Act of Prayer Year C - Second Sunday of Easter - Year C
by BRF - John Birch
Second Sunday of Easter Year C The Act of Prayer Praying through the lectionary ACTS 5:27–32; PSALM 118:14–29; REVELATION 1: 4-8 JOHN 20:19–31 Opening prayer Into your presence we come, God of grace and peace, who was, and is, and ever shall be the eternal one. In fellowship we c…
Fresh Thoughts For Sunday - Fresh Thoughts For Sunday Issue 110 3/04/16
Fresh Thoughts For Sunday - Fresh Thoughts For Sunday Issue 110 3/04/16
by Twelvebaskets Ltd
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Fresh Thoughts For Sunday - Fresh Thoughts For Sunday Issue 164
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Fresh Thoughts For Sunday - Fresh Thoughts For Sunday Issue 214
Fresh Thoughts For Sunday - Fresh Thoughts For Sunday Issue 214
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Fresh Thoughts For Sunday - Fresh Thoughts For Sunday 269
Fresh Thoughts For Sunday - Fresh Thoughts For Sunday 269
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The Vine at Home - The Vine At Home - Easter 2a
The Vine at Home - The Vine At Home - Easter 2a
by Twelvebaskets Ltd
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