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Again the Lord's own day is here
- Isaiah 9:6
- Matthew 28:1-8
- Matthew 6:19-21
- Mark 16:1-7
- Luke 24:1-7
- Luke 24:46-47
- John 14:19
- Acts 20:7
- Romans 5:2
- Romans 6:4-5
- Romans 8:11
- 1 Corinthians 15:22-23
- 1 Corinthians 16:2
- Ephesians 1:22
- Ephesians 4:15
- Colossians 1:18
- Colossians 2:12-13
- Colossians 3:1-2
- 1 Timothy 1:10
- Titus 2:14
- Hebrews 4:9
- 1 Peter 1:18-19
- 1 Peter 1:3-4
- Revelation 1:10
- Revelation 14:13
- 225
Again the Lord’s own day is here,
the day to Christian people dear,
when Jesus Christ, the church’s head,
arose in power and left the dead.
2. By all his flock, our Lord declared,
his resurrection shall be shared;
and we who trust in him to save
with him are risen from the grave.
3. For all his suffering on the cross
was to redeem our shame and loss;
we, one and all, by him possessed,
are with immortal treasures blessed.
4. Eternal glory, rest on high,
a holy immortality,
true peace and gladness, and a throne,
are all his gifts, and all our own.
5. And therefore, Lord, to you we sing,
O Prince of peace, eternal King;
your love we praise, your name adore,
on this your day and evermore.
© In this version Praise Trust
Thomas À Kempis (1380-1471)
Trans. John Mason Neale (1818-66)
Approaching God - Adoration and Thanksgiving
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The story behind the hymn
The section of hymns for Sunday, the Lord’s Day (Revelation 1:10) begins appropriately with this explicit text. Other hymns are eminently suitable for the first day of the week (see Matthew 28:1 etc), when most of them will be sung in any case; but this is outstanding among those which are intended for that day and virtually require it; see also 227 and 230–233. Most hymnals to include it at all select these 5 stzs, 1, 4, 5, 6 and the last from the original 29. The text comes in a 15th-c Lat ms from Karlsruhe, En dies est dominica, summa cultu dignissima, which many have attributed to Thomas à Kempis on stylistic and other grounds. J M Neale’s paraphrase appeared in The Hymnal Noted (1854), including ‘The Sunday Morn again is here … And therefore kept must Sunday be …’. A&M considerably adapted this in 1861, retaining the hymn in every edn until 2000. Here Praise! introduces a modernised version. Among the new or rearranged lines are 1.3–4, 3.1–2, to replace respectively ‘… how Jesus rose from death and hell’ and ‘for all he did and all he bare, he gives us as our own to share’. Roger Jones’ tune LAUNDE is repeated from 219; see note. The listed alternative is EDEN (952); CHURCH TRIUMPHANT (47) is another frequently chosen option.