Easter Sunday
The Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ
Station: Saint Mary Major
1st class with 1st class octave
Introit: Psalm cxxxviii: 18, 5-6
I arose and I am still with Thee. Alleluia, alleluia! Thou hast laid Thine hand upon me, alleluia. Thy knowledge has become wonderful. Alleluia, alleluia. [Ps.] Lord, Thou hast probed me and known me. Thou knowest my sitting down and my rising up. Glory be.... I arose and I am still with Thee. Alleluia, alleluia! Thou hast laid Thine hand upon me, alleluia. Thy knowledge has become wonderful. Alleluia, alleluia.
Collect:
O God, who on this day, through Thine only begotten Son has overcome death and opened to us the gate of everlasting life; do Thou follow with Thine aid the desires which Thou dost put into our minds, and by Thy continual help, bring the same to good effect. Through the same Jesus Christ....
Epistle: 1 Corinthians v: 7-8
A reading from the Epistle of Blessed Paul the apostle
to the Corinthians.
Brethren, purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new
dough, as you really are without leaven. For Christ, our passover, has been
sacrificed. Therefore, let us keep festival, not with the old leaven, nor with
the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity
and truth.
Gradual: Ps. cxvii: 24, 1
This is the day which the Lord hath made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it. Give praise unto the Lord for He is good; for His mercy endures forever. Alleluia, alleluia! Christ, our pasch, is sacrificed. Alleluia!
Sequence:
Forth to the Paschal Victim,
Christians, bring
Your sacrifice of praise:
The Lamb redeems the sheep;
And Christ, the sinless One,
Hath to the Father sinners reconciled.
Together death and life
In strange conflict strove.
The Prince of Life, who died,
Now lives and reigns.
What thou sawest, Mary, say,
As thou wentest on the way.
"I saw the tomb wherein the living One had lain,
I saw His glory as He rose again;
Napkin and linen cloths, and angels twain:
Yea, Christ has risen, my hope, and He
Will go before you into Galilee."
We know that Christ has risen from the grave:
Hail, Thou, King of Victory,
Have mercy Lord, and save.
Amen. Alleluia.
The Sequence is repeated throughout the octave.
Gospel: Mark xvi: 1-7
+ The continuation of the
Holy Gospel according to Mark:
At that time, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James,
and Salome, brought spices that they might go and anoint Jesus. And very early
on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb, when the sun had just
risen. And they were saying to one another, "Who will roll the stone back
from the entrance of the tomb for us?" And looking up they saw that the
stone had been rolled back, for it was very large. But on entering the tomb,
they saw a young man sitting at the right side, clothed in a white robe, and
they were amazed. He said to them, "Do not be terrified. You are looking
for Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He is risen. He is not here. Behold
the place where they laid Him. But go and tell His disciples and Peter that He
goes before you into Galilee; there you shall see Him as He told you."
Credo.
Offertory Ps. lxxv: 9-10
The earth trembled and was still when God arose in judgment. Alleluia!
Secret:
Accept, we beseech Thee, O Lord, the prayers of Thy people with the oblation of sacrifice; that what we have begun by these paschal mysteries, by Thy operation may profit us for a healing remedy unto life everlasting....
Proper Preface, Communicantes, and Hanc Igitur of Easter throughout the Octave.
Communion: 1 Corinthians v: 7-8
Christ our Pasch is immolated, alleluia: therefore let us feast with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth, alleluia. alleluia, alleluia!
Postcommunion:
Pour forth upon us, O Lord, the spirit of Thy love, that by Thy loving kindness, Thou mayest make to be of one mind, those whom Thou hast fed with these Paschal sacraments. Through our Lord ... in the unity of the same Holy Ghost, one God, world without end.
During the Octave:
Priest: Go, the Mass is ended, Alleluia, alleluia.
Congregation: Thanks be to God, Alleluia, alleluia.
