Sunday Lectionary Readings

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Lectionary: 1979 | Collect & Preface: Traditional

The Collect

Monday in Easter Week
Grant, we beseech thee, Almighty God, that we who celebrate with reverence the Paschal feast may be found worthy to attain to everlasting joys; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen
Preface of Easter

Old Testament Reading

[No Readings assigned for this day.]

Psalm

Psalm 16:8-11

⁸I have set the LORD always before me; *
     because he is at my right hand I shall not fall.
⁹My heart, therefore, is glad, and my spirit rejoices; *
     my body also shall rest in hope.
¹⁰For you will not abandon me to the grave, *
     nor let your holy one see the Pit.
¹¹You will show me the path of life; *
     in your presence there is fullness of joy,
     and in your right hand are pleasures for evermore.

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Psalm 118:19-24

¹⁹Open for me the gates of righteousness; *
     I will enter them;
     I will offer thanks to the LORD.
²⁰"This is the gate of the LORD; *
     he who is righteous may enter."
²¹I will give thanks to you, for you answered me *
     and have become my salvation.
²²The same stone which the builders rejected *
     has become the chief cornerstone.
²³This is the LORD'S doing, *
     and it is marvelous in our eyes.
²⁴On this day the LORD has acted; *
     we will rejoice and be glad in it.

New Testament Reading

Acts 2:14,22-32
¹⁴But Peter, standing up with the eleven, raised his voice and said to them, "Men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and heed my words. ²²"Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a Man attested by God to you by miracles, wonders, and signs which God did through Him in your midst, as you yourselves also know- ²³Him, being delivered by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by lawless hands, have crucified, and put to death; ²⁴whom God raised up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was not possible that He should be held by it. ²⁵For David says concerning Him: ' I foresaw the LORD always before my face, For He is at my right hand, that I may not be shaken. ²⁶Therefore my heart rejoiced, and my tongue was glad; Moreover my flesh also will rest in hope. ²⁷For You will not leave my soul in Hades, Nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption. ²⁸You have made known to me the ways of life; You will make me full of joy in Your presence.' ²⁹"Men and brethren, let me speak freely to you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. ³⁰Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, He would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne, ³¹he, foreseeing this, spoke concerning the resurrection of the Christ, that His soul was not left in Hades, nor did His flesh see corruption. ³²This Jesus God has raised up, of which we are all witnesses. -- NKJV

Gospel Reading

Matthew 28:9-15
⁹And as they went to tell His disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, "Rejoice!" So they came and held Him by the feet and worshiped Him. ¹⁰Then Jesus said to them, "Do not be afraid. Go and tell My brethren to go to Galilee, and there they will see Me." ¹¹Now while they were going, behold, some of the guard came into the city and reported to the chief priests all the things that had happened. ¹²When they had assembled with the elders and consulted together, they gave a large sum of money to the soldiers, ¹³saying, "Tell them, 'His disciples came at night and stole Him away while we slept.' ¹⁴And if this comes to the governor's ears, we will appease him and make you secure." ¹⁵So they took the money and did as they were instructed; and this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day. -- NKJV

The Preface

Preface of Easter
But chiefly are we bound to praise thee for the glorious resurrection of thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord; for he is the very Paschal Lamb, who was sacrificed for us, and hath taken away the sin of the world; who by his death hath destroyed death, and by his rising to life again hath won for us everlasting life.

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