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| "The Magdalene Runs to the Cenacle to Tell the Apostles that the Body of Jesus is No Longer in the Tomb" -- by James Tissot |
The
Resurrection of the Lord
The
Mass of Easter Sunday
FIRST
READING:
Acts 10:
34, 37 - 43
34
And Peter opening his mouth, said: In very deed I perceive, that God
is not a respecter of persons.
37
You know the word which hath been published through all Judea: for it
began from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached,
38
Jesus of Nazareth: how God anointed him with the Holy Ghost, and with
power, who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed
by the devil, for God was with him.
39
And we are witnesses of all things that he did in the land of the
Jews and in Jerusalem, whom they killed, hanging him upon a tree.
40
Him God raised up the third day, and gave him to be made manifest,
41
Not to all the people, but to witnesses preordained by God, even to
us, who did eat and drink with him after he arose again from the
dead;
42
And he commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify that it
is he who was appointed by God, to be judge of the living and of the
dead.
43
To him all the prophets give testimony, that by his name all receive
remission of sins, who believe in him.
PSALM:
Psalms 118:
1 - 2, 16 - 17, 22 - 23
1
Give praise to Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
2
Let Israel now say that he is good: that his mercy endureth for ever.
16
The right hand of the Lord hath wrought strength: the right hand of
the Lord hath exulted me: the right hand of the Lord hath wrought
strength.
17
I shall not die, but live: and shall declare the works of the Lord.
22
The stone which the builders rejected; the same is become the head of
the corner.
23
This is the Lord's doing: and it is wonderful in our eyes.
SECOND
READING:
Colossians 3:
1 - 4 OR
1
Corinthians 5: 6 -
8
1
Therefore, if you be risen with Christ, seek the things that are
above; where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God:
2
Mind the things that are above, not the things that are upon the
earth.
3
For you are dead; and your life is hid with Christ in God.
4
When Christ shall appear, who is your life, then you also shall
appear with him in glory.
OR
6
Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven
corrupteth the whole lump?
7
Purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new paste, as you are
unleavened. For Christ our pasch is sacrificed.
8
Therefore let us feast, not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven
of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity
and truth
SEQUENCE:
Victimæ
Paschali Laudes
Christians,
to the Paschal Victim
Offer
your thankful praises!
A
Lamb the sheep redeems;
Christ,
who only is sinless,
Reconciles
sinners to the Father.
Death
and life have contended in that combat stupendous:
The
Prince of life, who died, reigns immortal.
Speak,
Mary, declaring
What
you saw, wayfaring.
“The
tomb of Christ, who is living,
The
glory of Jesus’ resurrection;
bright
angels attesting,
The
shroud and napkin resting.
Yes,
Christ my hope is arisen;
to
Galilee he goes before you.”
Christ
indeed from death is risen, our new life obtaining.
Have
mercy, victor King, ever reigning!
Amen.
Alleluia.
ALLELUIA:
1 Corinthians 5:
7
R.
Alleluia, alleluia.
Christ,
our paschal lamb, has been sacrificed;
let
us then feast with joy in the Lord.
R.
Alleluia, alleluia.
GOSPEL:
John 20:
1 - 9
1
And on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalen cometh early, when it
was yet dark, unto the sepulchre; and she saw the stone taken away
from the sepulchre.
2
She ran, therefore, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other
disciple whom Jesus loved, and saith to them: They have taken away
the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid
him.
3
Peter therefore went out, and that other disciple, and they came to
the sepulchre.
4
And they both ran together, and that other disciple did outrun Peter,
and came first to the sepulchre.
5
And when he stooped down, he saw the linen cloths lying; but yet he
went not in.
6
Then cometh Simon Peter, following him, and went into the sepulchre,
and saw the linen cloths lying,
7
And the napkin that had been about his head, not lying with the linen
cloths, but apart, wrapped up into one place.
8
Then that other disciple also went in, who came first to the
sepulchre: and he saw, and believed.
9
For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from
the dead.
