21 April 2019 Year C • Season Colour: White • Psalter Week 1 Easter Sunday

21 APRIL 2019 EASTER SUNDAY

GLORIA not with the linen cloths but rolled up in a
1. Give thanks to the Lord for he is good,
Glory to God in the highest, place by itself. Then the other disciple who
and on earth peace to people of good will. for his love has no end.
had reached the tomb first also went in; he
Let the sons of Israel say:
We praise you, saw and he believed. Till this moment they
“His love has no end.” (R.)
we bless you, had failed to understand the teaching of
we adore you, 2. The Lord’s right hand has triumphed; scripture, that he must rise from the dead.
we glorify you, his right hand raised me up. The Gospel of the Lord.
we give you thanks for your great glory, I shall not die, I shall live
and recount his deeds. (R.)
Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ. THE WORD Year C • Season Colour: White • Psalter Week 1
Lord God, heavenly King,
O God, almighty Father. 3. The stone which the builders rejected RENEWAL OF BAPTISMAL
Lord Jesus Christ, Only Begotten Son, has become the corner stone. PROMISES
Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, This is the work of the Lord, Dear brethren (brothers and sisters), through

CHRIST IS
you take away the sins of the world, a marvel in our eyes. (R.) the Paschal Mystery we have been buried
have mercy on us; with Christ in Baptism, so that we may walk
you take away the sins of the world, with him in newness of life. And so, now that
SECOND READING Colossians 3:1-4

RISEN!
receive our prayer; our Lenten observance is concluded, let us
you are seated at the right hand of the Father, A reading from the letter of St Paul to the renew the promises of Holy Baptism, by which
have mercy on us. Colossians. we once renounced Satan and his works and
For you alone are the Holy One, promised to serve God in the holy Catholic (JOHN 20:1-9)
Since you have been brought back to true
you alone are the Lord, life with Christ, you must look for the things Church.
you alone are the Most High, Jesus Christ, that are in heaven, where Christ is, sitting at And so I ask you:
with the Holy Spirit, God’s right hand. Let your thoughts be on Priest: Do you renounce Satan?
in the glory of God the Father. All: I do.
heavenly things, not on the things that are on
Amen. Priest: And all his works?
the earth, because you have died, and now
the life you have is hidden with Christ in God. All: I do.
COLLECT Priest: And all his empty show?
But when Christ is revealed – and he is your
O God, who on this day, through your Only All: I do.
life – you too will be revealed in all your glory
Begotten Son, Or:
with him.
have conquered death Priest: Do you renounce sin, so as to live in the
and unlocked for us the path to eternity, The word of the Lord. freedom of the children of God?
grant, we pray, that we who keep Thanks be to God. All: I do.
the solemnity of the Lord’s Resurrection Priest: Do you renounce the lure of evil,
may, through the renewal brought by your SEQUENCE so that sin may have no mastery over you?
Spirit, Christians, to the Paschal Victim All: I do.
rise up in the light of life. offer sacrifice and praise. Priest: Do you renounce Satan, the author and
Through our Lord Jesus Christ your Son, The sheep are ransomed by the Lamb; prince of sin?
and Christ, the undefiled,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of
hath sinners to his Father reconciled.
All: I do. The Gospel passages for both the Vigil Mass and the Day Mass consider the
the Holy Spirit, Priest: Do you believe in God, the Father
one God, for ever and ever. Death with life contended; combat strangely discovery by at least one of the women followers of Jesus that his body, which SAY
almighty, Creator of heaven and earth?
Amen. ended! All: I do. they had witnessed being placed in the tomb, was no longer there. No-one saw The Lord is risen indeed!
Life’s own Champion, slain, yet lives to reign. Priest: Do you believe in Jesus Christ, his only
Tell us, Mary: say what thou didst see upon Son, our Lord, who was born of the Virgin
Jesus rise from the dead: despite many artistic presentations to the contrary, Alleluia!
FIRST READING Acts 10:34.37-43
the way. Mary, suffered death and was buried, rose our Christian faith centres on an event at which no-one was present.
A reading from the Acts of the Apostles. The tomb the Living did enclose; again from the dead and is seated at the right
I saw Christ’s glory as he rose! hand of the Father? The fact that the tomb is empty is no proof of the resurrection. The empty tomb may well
Peter addressed Cornelius and his household:
“You must have heard about the recent
The angels there attesting, All: I do. be a consequence of the resurrection, but it can only say He is not here. Mary Magdalene DO
shroud with grave-clothes resting. Priest: Do you believe in the Holy Spirit,
happenings in Judaea: about Jesus of voices the common assumption that someone has removed the body, an explanation
Christ, my hope, has risen: he goes before the holy Catholic Church, the communion of Make the sign of the cross with holy water.
Nazareth and how he began in Galilee, after which she will put to the risen Jesus himself later in the story.
you into Galilee. saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection Thank the Lord for all those people who
John had been preaching baptism. God had
That Christ is truly risen from the dead we of the body, and life everlasting? helped you in any way to believe in the
anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with In Luke’s account, the women have an experience similar to that of Peter, James and John
know. All: I do. resurrection of Jesus.
power, and because God was with him, Jesus at the transfiguration of Jesus. Two male figures in brilliantly shining clothes suddenly
Victorious king, thy mercy show! And may almighty God, the Father of our Lord
went about doing good and curing all who appear beside them. These persons are presumably angels, and they can supply the
had fallen into the power of the devil. Now I, Jesus Christ, real reason for the absence of Jesus’ body: they describe him as being alive, but not in
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION who has given us new birth by water and the
and those with me, can witness to everything the sense of not being dead when his body was placed in the tomb, rather being truly
Alleluia, alleluia! Holy Spirit
he did throughout the countryside of Judaea alive with God. This explanation can only come from God: it originates from the divine
Christ, our passover, has been sacrificed; and bestowed on us forgiveness of our sins,
and in Jerusalem itself: and also to the fact source, it is not something which human beings can deduce for themselves. Peter runs
let us celebrate the feast then, in the Lord. keep us by his grace,
that they killed him by hanging him on a tree, to the tomb but does not come to faith. The only person who does believe without an
Alleluia! in Christ Jesus our Lord, for eternal life. Amen.
yet three days afterwards God raised him to appearance experience is the disciple whom Jesus loved. None of the first witnesses to
life and allowed him to be seen, not by the
the resurrection believe simply on the word of another person: to be an authentic witness
whole people but only by certain witnesses GOSPEL John 20:1-9 PRAYER OVER THE OFFERINGS
Exultant with paschal gladness, O Lord, they have to receive the word from God, either by way of an angelic encounter, or by
God had chosen beforehand. Now we are
A reading from the holy Gospel according to we offer the sacrifice experiencing the risen Jesus for themselves. n
those witnesses – we have eaten and drunk
John. by which your Church
with him after his resurrection from the
dead – and he has ordered us to proclaim It was very early on the first day of the week is wondrously reborn and nourished.
this to his people and to tell them that God and still dark, when Mary of Magdala came Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
has appointed him to judge everyone, alive to the tomb. She saw that the stone had REFLECT LEARN
or dead. It is to him that all the prophets bear been moved away from the tomb and came COMMUNION ANTIPHON

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this witness: that all who believe in Jesus will running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, Christ our Passover has been sacrificed, n the Prologue to the Gospel, Luke Jesus and his message on the testimony
have their sins forgiven through his name.” the one Jesus loved. “They have taken the alleluia; tells his patron, Theophilus, that he of those who have received the witness John the evangelist deliberately contrasts
Lord out of the tomb” she said “and we don’t therefore let us keep the feast with the has researched the traditions which go of others. the raising of Lazarus to the circumstances
The word of the Lord. surrounding the resurrection of Jesus.
know where they have put him.” unleavened bread back to those who were eyewitnesses
Thanks be to God.
So Peter set out with the other disciple to of purity and truth, alleluia, alleluia. and became ministers of the word. Not The empty tomb as a symbol provides
go to the tomb. They ran together, but the even the women come to believe in one aspect of the meaning of the The fact that the male disciples do not
PSALM Psalm 117 other disciple, running faster than Peter, PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION resurrection. Once we accept the believe the women’s news is not simply male
the resurrection simply because Jesus’
reached the tomb first; he bent down and Look upon your Church, O God, message of revelation that he is risen, prejudice: To be true ministers of the word,
Response: body is missing: they too need the
saw the linen cloths lying on the ground, but with unfailing love and favour, it tells us that the person who was they need to experience the risen Jesus for
This day was made by the Lord; word of revelation. Thus the basis of
did not go in. Simon Peter who was following so that, renewed by the paschal mysteries, crucified and buried is the same person themselves.
we rejoice and are glad. the Christian proclamation is a direct
now came up, went right into the tomb, saw she may come to the glory of the as has risen: but not to the life he
or experience of the risen Lord. Later There are no witnesses of the resurrection,
the linen cloths on the ground, and also the resurrection. surrendered on the cross. That is the
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia! generations will have to form their own
cloth that had been over his head; this was Through Christ our Lord. Amen. only witnesses to the resurrection.
decision as to whether or not to accept message of the appearance stories. n
Concordat cum originali: +Diarmuid Martin, Archbishop of Dublin. Additional material, cum permissu: +Diarmuid Martin, Archbishop of Dublin.
Commentary by Fr Anthony Cassidy C.Ss.R. The English translation of the entrance and communion antiphons, the opening prayers, prayers over
the gifts, gloria, creed, and prayers after communion from The Roman Missal, © 2010 International Commission of English in the Liturgy Corporation.
Jerusalem Bible version of the scriptures copyright: Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd., and Doubleday & Co. Inc. Responsorial psalms are copyright The
Grail and/or Geoffrey Chapman Ltd. Published in Ireland by Redemptorist Communications (www.redcoms.org); Published in the UK by Redemptorist
Publications (www.rpbooks.co.uk)

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