EASTER SUNDAY CHRIST IS RISEN ALLELUAH
Prayer before Mass: Almighty and ever-living God, I approach the sacrament of Your only- begottenSon, Our Lord Jesus Christ. I come sick to the doctor of life, unclean to the fountain of mercy, blind to the radiance of eternal light, and poor and needy to the Lord of heaven and earth. Lord, in Your great generosity, heal my sickness, wash away my defilement, enlighten my blindness, enrich my poverty, and clothe my nakedness.
May I receive the Bread of Angels, the King of kings and Lord of lords, with humble reverence, with the purity and faith, the repentance and love, and the determined purpose that will help to bring me to salvation.
May I receive the sacrament of the Lord’s Body and Blood, and its reality and power. Kind God, may I receive the Body of Your only-begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, born from the womb of the Virgin Mary, and so be received into His mystical body and numbered among His members.
Loving Father, as on my earthly pilgrimage I now receive Your beloved Son under the veil of a sacrament, may I one day see Him face to face in glory, who lives and reigns with You forever. Amen. By Knights of the HolyEucharist. Mass Readings Lectures Reflection
First Reading Acts 10:34,37-43
after his resurrection'
Peter addressed Cornelius and
his household: ‘You must have heard about the recent happenings in Judaea;
about Jesus of Nazareth and how he began in Galilee, after John had been
preaching baptism. God had anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, and
because God was with him, Jesus went about doing good and curing all who had
fallen into the power of the devil. Now I, and those with me, can witness to
everything he did throughout the countryside of Judaea and in Jerusalem itself:
and also to the fact that they killed him by hanging him on a tree, yet three
days afterwards God raised him to life and allowed him to be seen, not by the
whole people but only by certain witnesses God had chosen beforehand. Now we
are those witnesses – we have eaten and drunk with him after his
resurrection from the dead – and he has ordered us to proclaim this to his
people and to tell them that God has appointed him to judge everyone, alive or
dead. It is to him that all the prophets bear this witness: that all who believe
in Jesus will have their sins forgiven through his name.’
Responsorial Psalm
This day was made by the Lord: we rejoice and are glad
Second Reading Colossians 3:1-4
Look for the things that are in heaven, where Christ
is
Since you have been brought back to true life with
Christ, you must look for the things that are in heaven, where Christ is,
sitting at God’s right hand. Let your thoughts be on heavenly things, not on
the things that are on the earth, because you have died, and now the life you
have is hidden with Christ in God. But when Christ is revealed – and he is
your life – you too will be revealed in all your glory with him.
Sequence
Victimae Paschali Laudes
Christians, to the Paschal
Victim
offer sacrifice
and praise.
The sheep are ransomed by the
Lamb;
and Christ, the undefiled,
hath sinners to his Father
reconciled.
Death with life contended:
combat strangely
ended!
Life’s own Champion, slain,
yet lives to
reign.
Tell us, Mary:
say what thou
didst see
upon the way.
The tomb the Living did
enclose;
I saw Christ’s glory as he
rose!
The angels there attesting;
shroud with grave-clothes
resting.
Christ, my hope, has risen:
he goes before you into
Galilee.
That Christ is truly risen
from the dead we
know.
Victorious king, thy mercy
show!
Gospel John 20:1-9
He must rise from the dead
It was very early on the first day of the week and still dark, when Mary of Magdala came to the tomb. She saw that the stone had been moved away from the tomb and came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved. ‘They have taken the Lord out of the tomb’ she said ‘and we don’t know where they have put him.’
So Peter set out with the other disciple to go to the tomb. They ran together, but the other disciple, running faster than Peter, reached the tomb first; he bent down and saw the linen cloths lying on the ground, but did not go in. Simon Peter who was following now came up, went right into the tomb, saw the linen cloths on the ground, and also the cloth that had been over his head; this was not with the linen cloths but rolled up in a place by itself. Then the other disciple who had reached the tomb first also went in; he saw and he believed. Till this moment they had failed to understand the teaching of scripture, that he must rise from the dead. Alleluah At D Lamb's High Feast
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