Mass Readings - Sunday, 21st April 2019

Mass Readings
Liturgical Readings for : Sunday, 21st April, 2019
Today's Readings
Léachtaí Gaeilge
EASTER SUNDAY MORNING: MASS OF THE DAY


FIRST READING      Acts of the Apostles 10:34. 37-43

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.’

The Word of the Lord.


RESPONSORIAL PSALM:      Ps 117
Response Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!

1. Give thanks to the Lord for he is good,
for his love has no end.
Let the sons of Israel say:
‘His love has no end.’                                   Response

2. The Lord’s right hand has triumphed;
his right hand raised me up.
I shall not die, I shall live
and recount his deeds.                                 Response

3. The stone which the builders rejected
has become the corner stone.
This is the work of the Lord,

a marvel in our eyes.                                   Response


SECOND READING         Colossians 3:1-4

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.


The Word of the Lord.


SEQUENCE

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 Acclamation      1 Cor 5:7-8

Alleluia, alleluia!
Christ, our passover, has been sacrificed;
let us celebrate the feast then, in the Lord.
Alleluia!


THE GOSPEL          John 20:1-9

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.

The Gospel of the Lord.