Easter Sunday – The Resurrection of the Lord – Solemnity
Readings of the day

First Reading: Acts 10, 34a.37-43
Psalm: 117 (118), 1-2.16ab-17. 22-23
Second Reading: Col 3, 1-4 or 1 Cor 5, 6b-8

Gospel: Jn 20, 1-9
On the first day of the week, Mary of Magdala came to the tomb early in the morning, while it was still dark, and saw the stone removed from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and told them, “They have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we don’t know where they put him.”

So Peter and the other disciple went out and came to the tomb. They both ran, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter and arrived at the tomb first; he bent down and saw the burial cloths there, but did not go in. When Simon Peter arrived after him, he went into the tomb and saw the burial cloths there, and the cloth that had covered his head, not with the burial cloths but rolled up in a separate place… Read more »

Holy Saturday – Vigil Mass
Readings of the day

First Reading: Gen 1, 1 – 2, 2
Psalm: 103 (104), 1-2a.5-6.10.12.13-14.24.35c
Second Reading: Gen 22,1-18
Psalm: 15 (16), 5.8.9-10.11
Third Reading: Ez 14, 15 – 15,1
Psalm: Ez 15, 1-2.3-4.5-6.17-18
Fourth Reading: Is 54, 5-14
Psalm: 29 (30), 2.4.5-6.11.12a.13b
Fifth Reading: Is 55, 1-11
Psalm: Is 12, 2-3.4bcd… Read more »

Good Friday
Readings of the day

First Reading: Is 52, 13 – 53, 12
Psalm: 30 (31), 2.6.12-13.15-16.17. 25
Second Reading: Hebrews 4, 14-16; 5, 7-9

Gospel: Jn 18, 1 – 19, 42

The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ according to Saint John

Jesus went out with his disciples across the Kidron valley to where there was a garden, into which he and his disciples entered. Judas his betrayer also knew the place, because Jesus had often met there with his disciples. So Judas got a band of soldiers and guards from the chief priests and the Pharisees and went there with lanterns, torches, and weapons. Jesus, knowing everything that was going to happen to him, went out and said to them, “Whom are you looking for?” They answered him, “Jesus the Nazorean.” He said to them, “I AM.” Judas his betrayer was also with them. When he said to them, “I AM,” they turned away and fell to the ground. So he again asked them, “Whom are you looking for?” They said, “Jesus the Nazorean.” Jesus answered, “I told you that I AM… Read more »

Maundy Thursday
Mass of the Lord’s Supper
Readings of the day

First Reading: Ex 12, 1-8.11-14
Psalm: 115 (116), 12-13.15-16bc.17-18
Second Reading: 1 Cor 11, 23-26

Gospel: Jn 13, 1-15

Before the feast of Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to pass from this world to the Father. He loved his own in the world and he loved them to the end. The devil had already induced Judas, son of Simon the Iscariot, to hand him over… Read more »

Our Lady of Sorrows
Readings of the day

First Reading: Rom 8, 31b-39
Psalm: 17 

Gospel: Jn 19: 25-27

Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there whom he loved he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son.” Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother.”

And from that hour the disciple took her into his home.  Read more »

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