Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord
Sunday, April 4, 2021
First reading
Reading from the book of the Acts of the Apostles (10,34a.37-43):
IN those days, Peter spoke up and said:
«You know what happened in all Judea, beginning in Galilee, after the baptism that John preached. I am referring to Jesus of Nazareth, anointed by God with the power of the Holy Spirit, who went about doing good and healing all those oppressed by the devil, because God was with him.
We are witnesses of everything he did in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They killed him by hanging him from a tree. But God raised him up on the third day and granted him the grace to appear, not to all the people, but to the witnesses appointed by God: to us, who ate and drank with him after his resurrection from the dead.
He commissioned us to preach to the people, giving solemn testimony that God has made him judge of the living and the dead. All the prophets bear witness to him: that all who believe in him receive forgiveness of sins through his name.
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Psalm
Salt 117,1-2.16ab-17.22-23
R/. This is the day the Lord acted:
be our joy and our joy
Give thanks to the Lord because he is good,
because his mercy is eternal.
Let the house of Israel say:
His mercy is eternal. R/.
«The right hand of the Lord is powerful,
"The right hand of the Lord is excellent."
I will not die, I will live
to tell the exploits of the Lord. R/.
The stone that the architects discarded
It is now the cornerstone.
It is the Lord who has done it,
It has been a patent miracle. R/.
Second reading
Reading from the letter of the apostle Saint Paul to the Colossians (3:1-4):
SIBLINGS:
If you have risen with Christ, seek the goods above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God; Aspire to the goods above, not to those of the earth.
Because you have died; and your life is with Christ hidden in God. When Christ, your life, appears, then you too will appear glorious, together with him.
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Sequence
Today it is obligatory to say the Sequence. The days within the Eighth are optional.
Christians offer
offerings of praise
to the glory of the Victim
propitious of Easter.
Lamb without sin
that saves the sheep,
to God and the guilty
united with a new alliance.
They fought life and death
in singular battle,
and, dead he who is Life,
triumphant he rises.
«What have you seen on the way,
Maria, in the morning?
«To my glorious Lord,
the abandoned grave,
the witness angels,
shrouds and shroud.
Truly resurrected
my love and my hope!
Come to Galilee,
there the Lord awaits;
there you will see theirs
the glory of Easter."
Scoop of the dead,
we know by your grace
that you are resurrected;
Death in you does not rule.
Victorious king, have mercy
of human misery
and give your faithful part
in your holy victory.
Gospel
Reading of the holy gospel according to Saint John (20,1-9):On the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb at dawn, while it was still dark, and saw the stone taken away from the tomb.
He ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and said to them:
"They have taken the Lord from the tomb and we do not know where they have put him."
Peter and the other disciple left on the way to the tomb. The two ran together, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter; He went ahead and reached the tomb first; and, bending down, he saw the linens lying; but he didn't enter.
Simon Peter also came after him and entered the tomb: he saw the linen clothes lying there and the shroud with which his head had been covered, not with the linen clothes, but rolled up in a separate place.
Then the other disciple also entered, the one who had reached the tomb first; He saw and believed.
For until then they had not understood the Scripture: that he was to rise from the dead.
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