Sunday Bible Readings Easter Sunday Morning April 12 2009 – Christ is Risen – Allelulia

April 12 2009 Easter Sunday The Resurrection of the Lord -
The Mass of Easter Day

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Acts 10:34a, 37-43
Haydock New Testament

Then Peter, opening his mouth, said:

You know the word which hath been published through all Judea: for it began from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached, Jesus, of Nazareth: how God anointed him with the Holy Ghost, and with power, who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed by the devil: for God was with him. And we are witnesses of all things, which he did in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem, whom they killed, hanging him upon a tree.

Him God raised up the third day, and gave him to be made manifest, Not to all the people, but to witnesses preordained by God, even to us, who eat and drank with him, after he rose again from the dead. And he commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify that it is he who hath been appointed by God to be the judge of the living and of the dead. To him all the prophets give testimony, that through his name all receive remission of sins, who believe in him.

Responsorial Psalm 117:1-2, 16-17, 22-23 (Ps 118 NAB)
DR Challoner Text Only

Give praise to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Let Israel now say, that he is good: that his mercy endureth for ever.
The right hand of the Lord hath wrought strength:
the right hand of the Lord hath exalted me:
the right hand of the Lord hath wrought strength.
I shall not die, but live: and shall declare the works of the Lord.
The stone which the builders rejected; the same is become the head of the corner.
This is the Lord’s doing, and it is wonderful in our eyes.

Colossians 3:1-4
Haydock New Testament

THEREFORE, if you be risen with Christ, seek the things that are above: where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God: Mind the things that are above, not the things that are on the earth. For you are dead, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ shall appear, who is your life: then shall you also appear with him in glory.

Or
I Corinthians 5:6b-8
Haydock New Testament

Know you not that a little leaven corrupteth the whole mass? Purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new paste, as you are unleavened. For Christ, our Pasch, is sacrificed. Therefore let us feast, not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint John 20:1-9 or Mark 16:1-7 or Luke 24:13-35
Haydock New Testament

John 20:1-9

AND on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene cometh in the morning, it being yet dark, to the sepulchre; and she saw the stone taken away from the sepulchre. She ran, therefore, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and saith to them;

They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him.

Peter, therefore, went out, and that other disciple, and they came to the sepulchre. And they both ran together, and that other disciple out-ran Peter, and came first to the sepulchre. And when he stooped down, he saw the linen cloths lying; but yet he went not in. Then cometh Simon Peter, following him, and went into the sepulchre, and saw the linen cloths lying, And the napkin, that had been about his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but apart, wrapt up into one place. Then that other disciples also went in, who came first to the sepulchre; and he saw, and believed. For as yet they knew not the Scripture, that he must rise again from the dead.

Mark 16:1-7

AND when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary, the mother of James and Salome, bought sweet spices, that coming they might anoint Jesus. And very early in the morning, the first day of the week, they come to the sepulchre, the sun being now risen. And they said one to another:

Who shall roll us back the stone from the door of the sepulchre?

And looking, they saw the stone rolled back. For it was very great. And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed with a white robe: and they were astonished. He saith to them:

Be not affrighted; you seek Jesus, of Nazareth, who was crucified: he is risen, he is not here: behold the place where they laid him. But go tell his disciples, and Peter, that he goeth before you into Galilee: there you shall see him, as he told you.

Luke 24:13-35

And behold, two of them went that same day to a town which was sixty furlongs from Jerusalem, named Emmaus. And they talked together of all these things which had happened. And it came to pass, that while they talked and reasoned with one another, Jesus himself also drew near, and went with them. But their eyes were held, that they should not know him. And he said to them:

What are these discourses that you hold one with another, as you walk, and are sad?

And the one, whose name was Cleophas, answering, said to him:

Art thou alone a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things that have been done there in these days?

He said to them:

What things?

And they said:

Concerning Jesus, of Nazareth, who was a prophet, mighty in work and word, before God, and all the people: And how our chief priests and rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and crucified him. But we hoped that it was he who should have redeemed Israel: and now, besides all this, to-day is the third day since these things were done. Yea, and certain women also of our company, affrighted us, who, before it was light, were at the sepulchre, And not finding his body, came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of Angels, who say that he is alive. And some of our people went to the sepulchre, and found it so as the women had said; but him they found not.

Then he said to them:

O foolish, and slow of heart, to believe in all the things which the prophets have spoken! Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and so to enter into his glory?

And beginning from Moses, and all the prophets, he expounded to them in all the Scriptures, the things that were concerning him. And they drew nigh to the town whither they were going: and he made as though he would go farther. But they constrained him, saying:

Stay with us, because it is towards evening, and the day is now far spent.

And he went in with them. And it came to pass, whilst he was at table with them, he took bread, and blessed, and brake, and gave to them. And their eyes were opened, and they knew him: and he vanished out of their sight. And they said one to the other:

Was not our heart burning within us, whilst he was speaking in the way, and opened to us the Scriptures?

And rising up the same hour they went back to Jerusalem: and they found the eleven gathered together, and those that were with them, Saying:

The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon.

And they told what things were done in the way: and how they knew him in the breaking of bread.

Haydock Commentary Acts 10:34a, 37-43
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site

• Ver. 37. For it began, or its beginning was, &c.
• Ver. 39. Whom they killed. At the very first, says[4] S. Chrys. the apostles preached Christ crucified, and tell them they had put to death on a cross the Lord of all things, the judge of the living and the dead. Wi. — We may here admire how wonderfully Peter adapts his discourse to the capacity of his hearers. When speaking to the Jews, he proves Jesus to be their Messias, from the testimony of their prophets. On the present occasion, he only just alludes to the prophets, but confirms his discourse by the testimony of the miracles which Jesus had wrought in public, and were known to all the world. Calmet.
• Ver. 40. Jesus Christ did not announce his resurrection, and other mysteries, to all at once, but to a chose few, who were to be governors of the rest; teaching us thereby, that we have to learn our religion, and every thing necessary to salvation, from the Church of God, speaking to us by her ministers.
• Ver. 42. The living and of the dead. This may be understood of the elect, who live by grace, and the reprobate, who are spiritually dead; or perhaps more literally, of those who shall be found living upon earth at the second coming of Christ, and of all who have died from the commencement of the world to the end of time. S. Aug. Enchirid.

Haydock Commentary Colossians 3:1-4

• Ver. 1. Here begins the second or the moral part of this epistle. — If you be risen, &c. The remaining part of this epistle has no great difficulties, but excellent instructions, as that to the Ephesians. Wi.

Haydock Commentary 1 Corinthians 5:6b-8

• Ver. 6-8. Your glorying is not good, when you suffer such a scandal among you: you have little reason to boast of your masters, or even of the gifts and graces you received. A little leaven corrupteth the whole mass; a public scandal, when not punished, is of dangerous consequence. — Purge out the old leaven. He alludes to the precept given to the Jews of having no leaven in their houses during the seven days of the Paschal feast. For our Pasch, i.e. Paschal lamb, Christ is sacrificed: and Christians, says S. Chrys. must keep this feast continually, by always abstaining from the leaven of sin. Wi.

Haydock Commentary John 20:1-9

• Ver. 1. As our Saviour had been interred in great haste, the holy women who had before accompanied Jesus in all his journeys, brought perfumes to embalm his sacred body again, in a manner more proper, than Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea had been able to do before. S. John makes mention of Mary Magdalene only, because it was his intention to give a particular relation of all that she did: but we learn from the other evangelists, that there were three holy women at the sepulchre together, viz. Mary Magdalene, Mary, the mother of James, and Salome. Calmet. — This was on the first day of the week, the morrow of the sabbath. V. — Christ rose again, leaving the stone and seals still lying on the sepulchre. But as this was to be believed by others also, after the resurrection, the tomb was opened, and thus the belief of what had taken place, propagated. This it was that struck Magdalene; for as soon as she saw the stone rolled from the sepulchre, without entering, or even looking into it, she immediately ran, in the ardour fo her affection, to carry the news to the disciples. S. Chrys. hom. lxxxiv. in Joan.
• Ver. 5. He saw the linen cloths lying. S. Chrys. takes notice, that Christ’s body being buried with myrrh, the linen would stick as fast to the body as pitch, so that it would be impossible to steal, or take away the body without the linen cloths. Wi.
• Ver. 8. He saw and believed. He did not yet believe that Jesus was risen from the dead, because he was still ignorant that he was to rise from the dead. For although the apostles had so often heard their divine Master speak in the most plain terms of his resurrection, still being so much accustomed to parables, they did not understand, and imagined something else was meant by these words. S. Aug. tract. 120. in Joan.

Haydock Commentary Mark 16:1-7

• Ver. 1. Saturday evening, after the sun was set, for the sabbath began and ended with the setting sun.
• Ver. 2. S. Marks says very early, the sun being now risen, whereas S. John tells us that it was yet dark. But when S. Mark says the sun was risen, he means that it began, by its approach to the horizon, to enlighten the heavens, at which time there is still darkness remaining, (according to S. John) which decreases as light approaches the earth. S. Austin.
• Ver. 5. S. Matthew says the angel was sitting on the stone, whilst S. Mark says that they saw him sitting on the right side of the sepulchre. This must not surprise us; for the angel which first appeared sitting upon the stone, might have been afterwards seen by him sitting on the right side of the sepulchre. Theophy. — Perhaps the angel mentioned by S. Matthew is different from the one mentioned by S. Mark. Or it may be understood, that the women entering the monument, which may mean the enclosure of it, saw the angel sitting on the stone, which was placed on the right side of the sepulchre. S. Austin.

Haydock Commentary Luke 24:13-35

• Ver. 13. S. Jerom thinks the Cleophas, one of the two disciples, was a citizen of Emmaus, and that he invited Jesus to take meat in his house. His house was afterwards changed into a church, which the same Father says existed in his time. Some think Cleophas was brother to S. Joseph; others, that he was husband of Mary, sister of the blessed Virgin Mary, and father of S. James the less. Both the Latins and Greeks keep the feast of S. Cleophas, and give him the name of an apostle. Usuard says he was martyred by the Jews. Calmet.
• Ver. 16. But their eyes were held: either by our Saviour’s changing his features, or in what manner he pleased. Wi.
• Ver. 18. Art thou alone a stranger in Jerusalem? or, art thou the only stranger in Jerusalem? which was to signify, that every one must needs have heard of what had passed in regard to Jesus. Wi.
• Ver. 21. We hoped, &c. as if they had lost their former hopes, or now knew not what to hope for: but perhaps, as S. Aug. observes, they might use this caution speaking before a stranger. Wi. — These two disciples were in the same error as the other Jews; who expected that the Messias would deliver them from subjection to strangers, and re-establish them in their ancient liberty. The cross and passion had been a subject of scandal and fall to them. They say, we did hope; as if their hopes were now at an end. What increased their diffidence was, that Christ had promised to rise again the third day, and some of the women had said that he really had risen. But they expected as public and glorious a manifestation of his resurrection, as his death had been ignominious and known to the whole world. Behold, now this is already the third day since these things are passed:; if he had wished to manifest his power, he should have done it already. Thus the disciples reason, as if the third day were already past, and as if it were certain that he was not risen again. So difficult a thing is it to believe what we very ardently wish! Calmet.
• Proprium hoc miseros sequitur vitum
• Nunquam rebus credere lætis.
• Ver. 30. The ancient Fathers think our Saviour consecrated, on this occasion, and administered the Eucharist to the two disciples. In the Acts of the Apostles, this same term, breaking of bread, is explained without difficulty of the Eucharist. S. Luke seems fond of this manner of expression, to signify that sacrament. Calmet.