My LORD’s BibleThe Roman Missal: Easter Sunday and Easter Week (English) 7
1[Easter Saturday.]
3Prayer. Concede. Grant, we beseech thee, O Almighty God, that we who have kept with veneration the paschal solemnities, may by them deserve to arrive at eternal joys. Through our Lord, &c.
4[Second Prayer, Ecclesiæ tuæ, or Deus omnium, as in p. 39.]
5Epistle. 1 Peter ii. 2—10. Dearly beloved, laying away all malice, and all guile, and dissimulations, and envies, and all detractions, as new born babes, desire the rational milk without guile, that thereby you may grow unto salvation; if so be you have tasted that the Lord is sweet. Unto whom coming, as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen and made honourable by God: be you also as living stones built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. Wherefore it is contained in the scripture, Behold I lay in Sion a chief corner-stone, elect, precious; and he that shall believe in him, shall not be confounded. To you therefore that believe, he is honour: but to them that believe not, the stone which the builders rejected, the same is made the head of the corner; and a stone of stumbling and a rock of scandal to them who stumble at the word, neither do believe, whereunto also they are set. But you are a chosen generation, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people: that you may declare his virtues, who hath called you out of darkness into his admirable light, who in time past were not a people; but are now the people of God. Who had not obtained mercy; but now have obtained mercy.
6Alleluia, alleluia.—This is the day which the Lord hath made, let us be glad and rejoice therein, alleluia. Praise the Lord ye children, praise the name of the Lord.
7[Sequence, Victimæ paschali, &c. as on Sunday.]
8Gospel. St John xx. 1—9. At that time, on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalen cometh early, when it was yet dark, unto 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 did outrun 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 disciple 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.
9[Credo.]
10Offertory. Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord: we have blessed you out of the house of the Lord: the Lord is God, and he hath shone upon us, alleluia, alleluia.
11Secret. Grant us, we beseech thee, O Lord, ever to rejoice through these paschal mysteries; that the continued work of our redemption may become to us a cause of perpetual joy. Through our Lord, &c.
12[Second Secret as in page 40.]
13Communion. All you who have been baptized in Christ, have put on Christ, alleluia.
15[Second Postcommunion as in page 41.]