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Year C. (4/4/10)
Easter Sunday
The Resurrection of the Lord
The Mass of Easter Day
Reading
1
Peter
proceeded to speak and said:
“You know what has
happened all over Judea,
beginning in
Galilee after the baptism
that John
preached,
how God anointed
Jesus of Nazareth
with the
Holy Spirit and power.
He went about
doing good
and
healing all those oppressed by the devil,
for God
was with him.
We are witnesses
of all that he did
both in the
country of the Jews and in Jerusalem.
They put him to death
by hanging him on a tree.
This man God
raised on the third day and granted that he be visible,
not to all
the people, but to us,
the
witnesses chosen by God in advance,
who ate
and drank with him after he rose from the dead.
He commissioned us
to preach to the people
and
testify that he is the one appointed by God
as judge
of the living and the dead.
To him all the
prophets bear witness,
that
everyone who believes in him
will
receive forgiveness of sins through his name.”
Responsorial Psalm
R. (24) This is the day the Lord has made;
let us rejoice and be glad.
or:
R. Alleluia.
Give thanks to the
LORD, for he is good,
for his mercy
endures forever.
Let the house of
Israel say,
“His mercy endures
forever.”
R. This is the
day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad.
or:
R. Alleluia.
“The right hand of
the LORD has struck with power;
the right
hand of the LORD is exalted.
I shall not die,
but live,
and
declare the works of the LORD.”
R. This is the
day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad.
or:
R. Alleluia.
The stone which
the builders rejected
has become
the cornerstone.
By the LORD has
this been done;
it is wonderful
in our eyes.
R. This is the
day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad.
or:
R. Alleluia.
Reading 2
Brothers and
sisters:
If then you were
raised with Christ, seek what is above,
where Christ
is seated at the right hand of God.
Think of what is
above, not of what is on earth.
For you
have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
When Christ your
life appears,
then you
too will appear with him in glory.
or
I Cor 5:6b-8
Brothers and
sisters:
Do you not know
that a little yeast leavens all the dough?
Clear out the old
yeast,
so that
you may become a fresh batch of dough,
inasmuch as you
are unleavened.
For our paschal
lamb, Christ, has been sacrificed.
Therefore, let us
celebrate the feast,
not with
the old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness,
but with
the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Gospel
For afternoon or
evening Mass
That very
day, the first day of the week,
two of
Jesus’ disciples were going
to a
village seven miles from Jerusalem called Emmaus,
and they were
conversing about all the things that had occurred.
And it happened
that while they were conversing and debating,
Jesus himself drew
near and walked with them,
but their
eyes were prevented from recognizing him.
He asked them,
“What are you
discussing as you walk along?”
They stopped,
looking downcast.
One of them, named
Cleopas, said to him in reply,
“Are you the only
visitor to Jerusalem
who does
not know of the things
that have
taken place there in these days?”
And he replied to
them, “What sort of things?”
They said to him,
“The things that
happened to Jesus the Nazarene,
who was a
prophet mighty in deed and word
before God
and all the people,
how our
chief priests and rulers both handed him over
to a
sentence of death and crucified him.
But we were hoping
that he would be the one to redeem Israel;
and
besides all this,
it is now
the third day since this took place.
Some women from
our group, however, have astounded us:
they were
at the tomb early in the morning
and did
not find his body;
they came
back and reported
that they
had indeed seen a vision of angels
who
announced that he was alive.
Then some of those
with us went to the tomb
and found
things just as the women had described,
but him
they did not see.”
And he said to
them, “Oh, how foolish you are!
How slow of heart
to believe all that the prophets spoke!
Was it not
necessary that the Christ should suffer these things
and enter
into his glory?”
Then beginning
with Moses and all the prophets,
he
interpreted to them what referred to him
in all
the Scriptures.
As they approached
the village to which they were going,
he gave
the impression that he was going on farther.
But they urged
him, “Stay with us,
for it is
nearly evening and the day is almost over.”
So he went in to stay
with them.
And it happened
that, while he was with them at table,
he took
bread, said the blessing,
broke it,
and gave it to them.
With that their
eyes were opened and they recognized him,
but he
vanished from their sight.
Then they said to
each other,
“Were not our
hearts burning within us
while he
spoke to us on the way and opened the Scriptures to us?”
So they set out at
once and returned to Jerusalem
where they
found gathered together
the eleven
and those with them who were saying,
“The Lord has truly
been raised and has appeared to Simon!”
Then the two
recounted
what had
taken place on the way
and how he was made
known to them in the breaking of bread.
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