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The Resurrection of the Lord
The Mass of Easter Sunday
| | Readings for April 8, 2012
After our journey of Lent, filled with prayer, fasting and almsgiving, we come to the Paschal Triduum: Holy Thursday with its touching and beautiful Mass of the Last Supper, Good Friday, with its solemn adoration of Christ, its reading of the Passion, and veneration of the cross, and then the restful peace of Holy Saturday.
Then comes the Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday night, with the lighting of the new fire, and we joyously hear the chanting of the Exultet, and reading of the scriptures from Genesis to the Resurrection, the story of our Faith. We bring back the Gloria and the Alleluia, and we celebrate with joy the baptism or reception of a new Catholic into the Church. We bless each other with holy water from the font as a reminder of our own Baptism into this holy community of Faith. Once again we celebrate the Eucharist, which has been missing from our lives on Good Friday and Holy Saturday.
Easter Sunday morning brings its own special joy, filled with music, Alleluias and joyful readings. Once again, we celebrate the Eucharist in which we live our faith. We await with joyful hope the coming again of our Savior and Lord, who will restore all things in the Reign of God.
We are called to be his witnesses in our lives of Faith, Hope and deep Love. We are to live lives unleavened by malice and wickedness, but leavened by sincerity and truth.
Christ is Risen. Alleluia! What more is there to say?
Kathleen Spears Hopkins
Kathleen holds a Master of Theological Studies degree from the Catholic Theological Union of Chicago, and a BA in English from the Catholic University of America. She is a member of the Ascension Choir.
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| Lectio Divina... | | "Lectio divina is a slow, contemplative praying of the Scriptures. Time set aside in a special way for lectio divina enables us to discover in our daily life an underlying spiritual rhythm. Within this rhythm, we discover an increasing ability to offer more of ourselves and our relationships to the Father, and to accept the embrace that God is continuously extending to us in the person of his son, Jesus Christ."
Father Luke Dysinger, O.S.B
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| About Living the Word | |
LIVING THE WORD...opportunity, challenge, commitment
Opportunity: Living the Word is an opportunity for us to grow in our knowledge and love of God through the prayerful reading and study of the scriptures.
Challenge: Living the Word is a challenge to make more time for God in our daily lives. We challenge ourselves to come to Mass each week ready to hear God's Word proclaimed and to take that Word to the world!
Commitment: Living the Word invites us to commit ourselves to spending time with God's Word several times each week. As we read and reread these scriptures, think about the words we read, and bring these words to prayer, we encounter Christ, God's Living Word.
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| What is a Lectionary? | |
A lectionary is a list of scripture readings (also called "lections," from the Latin lectio) selected for reading at worship services; it is also the book containing the actual readings. The term is most commonly used in the Catholic Church for the Lectionary for Mass, which contains the readings prescribed for the Masses for Sundays, feast days, weekdays, sacramental celebrations, funerals, and Masses for special occasions or particular devotions-basically, any Mass.
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