Sunday 22 May 2022 – The Sixth Sunday of Easter

Collect
God our redeemer,
you have delivered us from the power of darkness
and brought us into the kingdom of your Son:
grant, that as by his death he has recalled us to life,
so by his continual presence in us he may raise us
to eternal joy;
through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever. Amen

Acts 16.9-15
During the night Paul had a vision: there stood a man of Macedonia pleading with him and saying, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.”
When he had seen the vision, we immediately tried to cross over to Macedonia, being convinced that
God had called us to proclaim the good news to them.
We set sail from Troas and took a straight course to Samothrace, the following day to Neapolis,
and from there to Philippi, which is a leading city of the district of Macedonia and a Roman colony. We
remained in this city for some days.
On the sabbath day we went outside the gate by the river, where we supposed there was a place of
prayer; and we sat down and spoke to the women who had gathered there.
A certain woman named Lydia, a worshiper of God, was listening to us; she was from the city of
Thyatira and a dealer in purple cloth. The Lord opened her heart to listen eagerly
to what was said by Paul.
When she and her household were baptized, she urged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful
to the Lord, come and stay at my home.” And she prevailed upon us.

Revelation 21: 10, 22 -22.5
And in the spirit, he carried me away to a great, high mountain
and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God.
I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb.
And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God is its light,
and its lamp is the Lamb.

The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it.
Its gates will never be shut by day—and there will be no night there.
People will bring into it the glory and the honor of the nations.
But nothing unclean will enter it, nor anyone who practices abomination or falsehood, but only those
who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of
God and of the Lamb
through the middle of the street of the city. On either side of the river is the tree of life with its twelve
kinds of fruit, producing its fruit each month; and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the
nations.

Nothing accursed will be found there any more. But the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it,
and his servants will worship him;
they will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.
And there will be no more night; they need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light,
and they will reign forever and ever.

John 14.23.-29
Jesus answered him, “Those who love me will keep my word, and my Father will love them, and we will
come to them and make our home with them.

Whoever does not love me does not keep my words; and the word that you hear is not mine, but is
from the Father who sent me.
“I have said these things to you while I am still with you.

But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything, and
remind you of all that I have said to you.

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your
hearts be troubled, and do not let them be afraid.

You heard me say to you, “I am going away, and I am coming to you.’ If you loved me, you would
rejoice that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I.
And now I have told you this before it occurs, so that when it does occur, you may believe.