Fourth Sunday of Easter

The Common Worship lectionary readings for Fourth Sunday of Easter in Year A, the liturgical colour, and what changes in the order of service.

Year A · Easter · white

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The readings

Citations follow the Revised Common Lectionary as used in the Church of England's Common Worship principal service lectionary. Verse numbering can differ very slightly between Bible translations.

The liturgical colour

White is festal — Christmas, Easter, and the feasts of the Lord. Many parishes use gold on the greatest of them. On this Sunday the colour is white.

What changes in the service

The Gloria returns and the Alleluia is sung freely, including in the dismissal.

In SundayHQ this is the eastertide template shape. You set your order of service once; when the season turns, one click applies the seasonal change and leaves the rest of your parish's own wording alone.

Hymns that fit these readings

Suggestions matched to the readings above, each with the reason it was chosen:

• Opening — Jesus Christ is risen today Easter Hymn; the alleluias are the point
• Gradual — The King of love my shepherd is 'I am the good shepherd' — the Good Shepherd Sunday
• Offertory — Ye choirs of new Jerusalem Holds the season through weeks four and five
• Communion — Now the green blade riseth New life, quietly, at the table
• Final — The strife is o'er, the battle done Victory, sent out with alleluias

When it next falls

Year A comes round every three years. The date moves because the whole calendar hangs off Easter.

The same Sunday in the other years

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