Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!

 ‘He has risen from the dead “ The Lord has risen indeed.

Jesus has the power to overcome death.

The resurrection of Christ gives us hope for salvation and for our own resurrection and eternal life.

 

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Acts 10:34a, 37-43

Peter then spoke to them,

A light that will shatter the darkness of sin and death.

Only life in Christ can save your life. Only the Christ life in you can save your life.

His life of obedience in complete surrender to God's will to His last, agonising breath on the Cross.

It takes courage to the will of God, but to turn away from call to follow Christ is to put one's salvation at jeopardy.

 

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Isaiah 49:1-6

Listen to me,

 "Light of Christ, rising in glory," scattering the "Darkness of our hearts and minds."

'Wake up, O sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you'”

Alleluia! Alleluia! The Lord is risen! Alleluia! This is the night when life has triumphed over death.

 

1ST Reading: Genesis 1:1-2:2 (or Genesis 1:1, 26-31a)

Psalm 104:1-2, 5-6, 10, 12, 13-14, 24, 35 (or Psalm 33:4-5, 6-7, 12-13, 20-22)

 

2ND Reading: Genesis 22:1-18 (or Genesis 22:1-2, 9a, 10-13, 15-18)

Psalm 16:5, 8, 9-10, 11

 

3RD Reading: Exodus 14:15-15:1

Exodus 15:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 17-18

 

4TH Reading: Isaiah 54:5-14

Psalm 30:2, 4, 5-6, 11-12, 13

 

5TH Reading: Isaiah 55:1-11

Isaiah 12:2-3, 4, 5-6

 

6TH Reading: Baruch 3:9-15, 32-4:4

Psalm 19:8, 9, 10, 11

 

7TH Reading: Ezekiel 36:16-17a, 18-28

Psalm 42:3, 5; 43:3, 4 (or Isaiah 12:2-3, 4bcd, 5-6 or Psalm 51:12-13, 14-15, 18-19)

 

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Romans 6:3-11

Don't you know

 

 Jesus' anointing also points to him as King and Messiah,

“Even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ .”

 

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Isaiah 42:1-7

Here is my servant

  
O my God, my Redeemer,

I standing by the Cross,

From the bottom of my heart I am sorry for all my sins.

 

 Mass is not celebrated today.

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 Isaiah 52:13-53:12

It is now

 

 " The suffering servant."

This Servant "shall be high and lifted up, and shall be exalted"

A holy King who could atone for the sins of His people and establish them in righteousness.

 

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Isaiah 50:4-7

The Lord God has taught me

Christians as the "inauguration of the New Covenant", mentioned by the prophet Jeremiah, fulfilled at the last supper when ...

The Last Supper is the final meal that, Jesus shared with his apostles in Jerusalem before his crucifixion.

During the meal, Jesus takes bread, breaks it and gives it to those present, saying "This is my body given to you".

The Gospel of John tells of Jesus washing the feet of the apostles,

giving the new commandment "to love one another as I have loved you". 

 

 

At evening, begin Easter Triduum of the Lord's Passion, Death and Resurrection.

 "The Shepherd of David's line."

“I am the Good Shepherd; I know My sheep,

and My sheep know Me –

just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father

– and I lay down My Life for the sheep.

 

＊＊＊ 1st Reading ＊＊＊     

Ezekiel 37:21-28

You will then say to them:

Christ underwent his Passion and death.

The Eucharist is a participation both in Christ's sacrifice and his heavenly victory,

Christ underwent his Passion and death freely,

because of the sins of all men and out of infinite love.

 

＊＊＊ 1st Reading ＊＊＊     

Isaiah 50:4-9a

The Lord God

 "Giving witness to Christ."

 "A Christian who doesn't give witness is unfathomable,"

in the beatitudes, Jesus said, "blessed are you when they insult you and persecute you

and utter every kind of evil against you falsely because of me."

 

St. Stanislaus, bishop and martyr

I want eternity. I was born for greater things.

 ＊＊＊ 1st Reading ＊＊＊     

Jeremiah 20:10-13

I hear many people whispering,