Saturday, April 19, 2014
Easter Vigil - Year A
08:30 pm Mass in Multilingual
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GENESIS 1:1, 2:2
1 In the beginning God created heaven and earth.
2 On the seventh day God had completed the work he had
been doing. He rested on the seventh day after all the work he had been doing.
GENESIS 22:1-18
1 It happened some time later that God put Abraham to
the test. 'Abraham, Abraham!' he called. 'Here I am,' he replied.
2 God said, 'Take your son, your only son, your beloved
Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, where you are to offer him as a burnt
offering on one of the mountains which I shall point out to you.'
3 Early next morning Abraham saddled his donkey and took
with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. He chopped wood for the burnt
offering and started on his journey to the place which God had indicated to
him.
4 On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place
in the distance.
5 Then Abraham said to his servants, 'Stay here with the
donkey. The boy and I are going over there; we shall worship and then come back
to you.'
7 Isaac spoke to his father Abraham. 'Father?' he said.
'Yes, my son,' he replied. 'Look,' he said, 'here are the fire and the wood,
but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?'
8 Abraham replied, 'My son, God himself will provide the
lamb for the burnt offering.' And the two of them went on together.
9 When they arrived at the place which God had indicated
to him, Abraham built an altar there, and arranged the wood. Then he bound his
son and put him on the altar on top of the wood.
10 Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to
kill his son.
11 But the angel of Yahweh called to him from heaven.
'Abraham, Abraham!' he said. 'Here I am,' he replied.
12 'Do not raise your hand against the boy,' the angel
said. 'Do not harm him, for now I know you fear God. You have not refused me
your own beloved son.'
13 Then looking up, Abraham saw a ram caught by its horns
in a bush. Abraham took the ram and offered it as a burnt offering in place of
his son.
14 Abraham called this place 'Yahweh provides', and hence
the saying today: 'On the mountain Yahweh provides.'
15 The angel of Yahweh called Abraham a second time from
heaven.
16 'I swear by my own self, Yahweh declares, that because
you have done this, because you have not refused me your own beloved son,
17 I will shower blessings on you and make your
descendants as numerous as the stars of heaven and the grains of sand on the
seashore. Your descendants will gain possession of the gates of their enemies.
18 All nations on earth will bless themselves by your
descendants, because you have obeyed my command.'
EXODUS 14:15, 15:1
15 Yahweh then said to Moses, 'Why cry out to me? Tell
the Israelites to march on.
1 It was then that Moses and the Israelites sang this
song in Yahweh's honour: I shall sing to Yahweh, for he has covered himself in
glory, horse and rider he has thrown into the sea.
Fourth Reading
ISAIAH 54:5-14
5 For your Creator is your husband, Yahweh Sabaoth is
his name, the Holy One of Israel is your redeemer, he is called God of the
whole world.
6 Yes, Yahweh has called you back like a forsaken,
grief-stricken wife, like the repudiated wife of his youth, says your God.
8 In a flood of anger, for a moment I hid my face from
you. But in everlasting love I have taken pity on you, says Yahweh, your
redeemer.
9 For me it will be as in the days of Noah when I swore
that Noah's waters should never flood the world again. So now I swear never to
be angry with you and never to rebuke you again.
10 For the mountains may go away and the hills may
totter, but my faithful love will never leave you, my covenant of peace will
never totter, says Yahweh who takes pity on you.
11 Unhappy creature, storm-tossed, unpitied, look, I
shall lay your stones on agates and your foundations on sapphires.
12 I shall make your battlements rubies, your gateways
firestone and your entire wall precious stones.
13 All your children will be taught by Yahweh and great
will be your children's prosperity.
14 In saving justice you will be made firm, free from
oppression: you will have nothing to fear; free from terror: it will not
approach you.
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Fifth Reading
ISAIAH 55:1-11
1 Oh, come to the water all you who are thirsty; though
you have no money, come! Buy and eat; come, buy wine and milk without money,
free!
2 Why spend money on what cannot nourish and your wages
on what fails to satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and you will have good things
to eat and rich food to enjoy.
3 Pay attention, come to me; listen, and you will live.
I shall make an everlasting covenant with you in fulfilment of the favours
promised to David.
4 Look, I have made him a witness to peoples, a leader
and lawgiver to peoples.
5 Look, you will summon a nation unknown to you, a
nation unknown to you will hurry to you for the sake of Yahweh your God,
because the Holy One of Israel has glorified you.
6 Seek out Yahweh while he is still to be found, call to
him while he is still near.
7 Let the wicked abandon his way and the evil one his
thoughts. Let him turn back to Yahweh who will take pity on him, to our God,
for he is rich in forgiveness;
8 for my thoughts are not your thoughts and your ways
are not my ways, declares Yahweh.
9 For the heavens are as high above earth as my ways are
above your ways, my thoughts above your thoughts.
10 For, as the rain and the snow come down from the sky
and do not return before having watered the earth, fertilising it and making it
germinate to provide seed for the sower and food to eat,
11 so it is with the word that goes from my mouth: it
will not return to me unfulfilled or before having carried out my good pleasure
and having achieved what it was sent to do.
Sixth Reading
BARUCH 3:9-15, 32, 4:4,
9 Listen, Israel, to commands that bring life; hear, and
learn what knowledge means.
10 Why, Israel, why are you in the country of your
enemies, growing older and older in an alien land,
11 defiling yourselves with the dead, reckoned with those
who go to Sheol?
12 It is because you have forsaken the fountain of
wisdom!
13 Had you walked in the way of God, you would be living
in peace for ever.
14 Learn where knowledge is, where strength, where
understanding, and so learn where length of days is, where life, where the
light of the eyes and where peace.
15 But who has found out where she lives, who has entered
her treasure house?
4 Israel, blessed are we: what pleases God has been
revealed to us!
Seventh Reading
EZEKIEL 36:16-28
16 The word of Yahweh was addressed to me as follows,
17 'Son of man, the members of the House of Israel used
to live in their own territory, but they defiled it by their conduct and
actions; to me their conduct was as unclean as a woman's menstruation.
18 I then vented my fury on them because of the blood
they shed in the country and the foul idols with which they defiled it.
19 I scattered them among the nations and they were
dispersed throughout the countries. I sentenced them as their conduct and
actions deserved.
20 They have profaned my holy name among the nations
where they have gone, so that people say of them, "These are the people of
Yahweh; they have been exiled from his land."
21 But I have been concerned about my holy name, which
the House of Israel has profaned among the nations where they have gone.
22 And so, say to the House of Israel, "The Lord
Yahweh says this: I am acting not for your sake, House of Israel, but for the
sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you have
gone.
23 I am going to display the holiness of my great name,
which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned among them.
And the nations will know that I am Yahweh -- declares the Lord Yahweh -- when
in you I display my holiness before their eyes.
24 For I shall take you from among the nations and gather
you back from all the countries, and bring you home to your own country.
25 I shall pour clean water over you and you will be
cleansed; I shall cleanse you of all your filth and of all your foul idols.
26 I shall give you a new heart, and put a new spirit in
you; I shall remove the heart of stone from your bodies and give you a heart of
flesh instead.
27 I shall put my spirit in you, and make you keep my
laws, and respect and practice my judgments.
28 You will live in the country which I gave your
ancestors. You will be my people and I shall be your God.
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Eight Reading
ROMANS 6:3-11
3 You cannot have forgotten that all of us, when we were
baptised into Christ Jesus, were baptised into his death.
4 So by our baptism into his death we were buried with
him, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the Father's glorious power,
we too should begin living a new life.
5 If we have been joined to him by dying a death like
his, so we shall be by a resurrection like his;
6 realising that our former self was crucified with him,
so that the self which belonged to sin should be destroyed and we should be
freed from the slavery of sin.
7 Someone who has died, of course, no longer has to
answer for sin.
8 But we believe that, if we died with Christ, then we
shall live with him too.
9 We know that Christ has been raised from the dead and
will never die again. Death has no power over him any more.
10 For by dying, he is dead to sin once and for all, and
now the life that he lives is life with God.
11 In the same way, you must see yourselves as being dead
to sin but alive for God in Christ Jesus.
“The Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
MATTHEW 28:1-10
1 After the Sabbath, and towards dawn on the first day
of the week, Mary of Magdala and the other Mary went to visit the sepulchre.
2 And suddenly there was a violent earthquake, for an
angel of the Lord, descending from heaven, came and rolled away the stone and
sat on it.
3 His face was like lightning, his robe white as snow.
4 The guards were so shaken by fear of him that they
were like dead men.
5 But the angel spoke; and he said to the women, 'There
is no need for you to be afraid. I know you are looking for Jesus, who was
crucified.
6 He is not here, for he has risen, as he said he would.
Come and see the place where he lay,
7 then go quickly and tell his disciples, "He has
risen from the dead and now he is going ahead of you to Galilee; that is where
you will see him." Look! I have told you.'
8 Filled with awe and great joy the women came quickly
away from the tomb and ran to tell his disciples.
9 And suddenly, coming to meet them, was Jesus.
'Greetings,' he said. And the women came up to him and, clasping his feet, they
did him homage.
10 Then Jesus said to them, 'Do not be afraid; go and
tell my brothers that they must leave for Galilee; there they will see me.'
“The Gospel of the Lord”
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