FIRST
READING: Micah
7: 14 - 15, 18 - 20
14
Shepherd your people with your staff, shepherd the flock of your
inheritance that dwells alone in the scrub, in the midst of a fertile
land. Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead
15
as in the days of old, in the days when you went out of Egypt.
Show
us your wonders.
18
Who is a god like you, who takes away guilt and pardons crime for the
remnant of his inheritance?
Who
is like you whose anger does not last? For you delight in merciful
forgiveness.
19
Once again you will show us your loving kindness and trample on our
wrongs, casting all our sins into the depths of the sea.
20
Show faithfulness to Jacob, mercy to Abraham, as you have sworn to
our ancestors from the days of old.
PSALM:
Psalms 85:
2 - 8
2
You have favored your land, O Lord; you have brought back the exiles
of Jacob.
3
You have forgiven the sin of your people; you have pardoned their
offenses.
4
You have withdrawn your wrath and turned from your burning rage.
5
But restore us, God our savior; put away altogether your indignation.
6
Will your anger be ever with us, carried over to all generations?
7
Will you not give us life anew, that your people may rejoice in you?
8
Show us, O Lord, your unfailing love and grant us your saving help.
GOSPEL:
John 20:
1 - 2, 11 - 18
1
Now, on the first day after the sabbath, Mary of Magdala came to the
tomb early in the morning, while it was still dark and she saw that
the stone blocking the tomb had been moved away.
2
She ran to Peter and the other disciple whom Jesus loved. And she
said to them, "They have taken the Lord out of the tomb and we
don't know where they have laid him."
11
Mary stood weeping outside the tomb, and as she wept she bent down to
look inside;
12
she saw two angels in white sitting where the body of Jesus had been,
one at the head, and the other at the feet.
13
They said, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She answered,
"Because they have taken my Lord and I don't know where they
have put him."
14
As she said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but
she did not recognize him.
15
Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you
looking for?" She thought it was the gardener and answered him,
"Lord, if you have taken him away, tell me where you have put
him, and I will go and remove him."
16
Jesus said to her, "Mary." She turned and said to him,
"Rabboni" - which means, Master.
17
Jesus said to her, "Do not cling to me; you see I have not yet
ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them: I am
ascending to my Father, who is your Father, to my God, who is your
God."
18
So Mary of Magdala went and announced to the disciples, "I have
seen the Lord, and this is what he said to me."
