CHURCH CLOSED To confirm what you will almost certainly already have gathered the church is now closed until further notice, but still we endeavour to maintain our common life virtually and distantly, yearning for the day when we can gather again at the Minster and for the Coronavirus crisis to be at an end.

SERVICES THIS WEEK ON SOCIAL MEDIA

Services will be streamed on the Messy Church at St Andrew's Croydon Facebook page. Some will be live streamed and some have been prepared in advance. We are also seeing if we can get them on to YouTube as that enables subtitles to be displayed and therefore more accessible for the hard of hearing.

THE BRIDGE, is available online via the Diocese of Southwark website:  https://southwark.anglican.org/news/the-bridge/2020/ 

SECOND SUNDAY of EASTER

Collect: <span style="font-size: 1rem;">Almighty Father, </span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">you have given your only Son to die for our sins </span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">and to rise again for our justification: </span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">grant us so to put away the leaven of malice and wickedness </span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">that we may always serve you </span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">in pureness of living and truth; </span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">through the merits of your Son Jesus Christ our Lord, </span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">who is alive and reigns with you, </span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">in the unity of the Holy Spirit, </span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">one God, now and for ever.</span>

Readings

Acts 2:14a, 22-32, Psalm 16; 1 Peter 1:3-9; John 20.19–31