EASTER MONDAY
ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA! THIS DAY WAS MADE BY THE LORD: Universal
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
First Reading Acts 2:14,22-33 God raised this man Jesus to life, and all of us
are witnesses to this
On the day of Pentecost Peter stood up with the
Eleven and addressed the crowd in a loud voice: ‘Men of Israel, listen to what
I am going to say: Jesus the Nazarene was a man commended to you by God by the
miracles and portents and signs that God worked through him when he was among
you, as you all know. This man, who was put into your power by the deliberate
intention and foreknowledge of God, you took and had crucified by men outside
the Law. You killed him, but God raised him to life, freeing him from the pangs
of Hades; for it was impossible for him to be held in its power since, as David
says of him:
I saw the Lord before me always, for with him at my right hand nothing can shake me. So my heart was glad and my tongue cried out with joy; my body, too, will rest in the hope that you will not abandon my soul to Hades nor allow your holy one to experience corruption. You have made known the way of life to me, you will fill me with gladness through your
presence.
‘Brothers, no one can deny that the patriarch David
himself is dead and buried: his tomb is still with us. But since he was a
prophet, and knew that God had sworn him an oath to make one of his descendants
succeed him on the throne, what he foresaw and spoke about was the resurrection
of the Christ: he is the one who was not abandoned to Hades, and whose body did
not experience corruption. God raised this man Jesus to life, and all of us are
witnesses to that. Now raised to the heights by God’s right hand, he has
received from the Father the Holy Spirit, who was promised, and what you see
and hear is the outpouring of that Spirit.’
Responsorial Psalm: Preserve me, Lord, I
take refuge in you.
Gospel Matthew
28:8-15
Tell my brothers that
they must leave for Galilee: they will see me there
Filled with awe and great joy the women came quickly away from the tomb
and ran to tell the disciples.
And there, coming to meet them, was Jesus. ‘Greetings’ he said. And the
women came up to him and, falling down before him, clasped his feet. Then Jesus
said to them, ‘Do not be afraid; go and tell my brothers that they must leave
for Galilee; they will see me there.’
While they were on their way, some of the guard went off into the city
to tell the chief priests all that had happened. These held a meeting with the
elders and, after some discussion, handed a considerable sum of money to the
soldiers with these instructions, ‘This is what you must say, “His disciples
came during the night and stole him away while we were asleep.” And should the
governor come to hear of this, we undertake to put things right with him
ourselves and to see that you do not get into trouble.’ The soldiers took the
money and carried out their instructions, and to this day that is the story
among the Jews.
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