Catholic Missal of the day: Sunday, April 1 2018

Easter Sunday: The Resurrection of the Lord - Solemnity

Easter Sunday: The Resurrection of the Lord - Solemnity

1. Reading

Acts of the Apostles

10,34a.37-43.

]Peter proceeded to speak and said, "You know
]what has happened all over Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John preached,
]how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the holy Spirit and power. He went about doing good and healing all those oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
]We are witnesses of all that he did both in the country of the Jews and (in) Jerusalem. They put him to death by hanging him on a tree.
]This man God raised (on) the third day and granted that he be visible,
]not to all the people, but to us, the witnesses chosen by God in advance, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.
]He commissioned us to preach to the people and testify that he is the one appointed by God as judge of the living and the dead.
]To him all the prophets bear witness, that everyone who believes in him will receive forgiveness of sins through his name."

Psalm

Psalms

118(117),1-2.16ab-17.22-23.

]Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good,
for his mercy endures forever.
]Let the house of Israel say,
"His mercy endures forever."
]"The right hand of the LORD is exalted;
]the right hand of the LORD has struck with power."
]I shall not die, but live,
and declare the works of the LORD.
]The stone which the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone.
]By the LORD has this been done;
it is wonderful in our eyes.

2. Reading

Letter to the Colossians

3,1-4.

]Brothers and sisters:  If you were raised with Christ, seek what is above,  where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.
]Think of what is above, not of what is on earth.
]For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
]When Christ your life appears, then you too will appear with him in glory.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John

20,1-9.

]On the first day of the week, Mary of Magdala came to the tomb early in the morning, while it was still dark, and saw the stone removed from the tomb.
]So she ran and went to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and told them, "They have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we don't know where they put him."
]So Peter and the other disciple went out and came to the tomb.
]They both ran, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter and arrived at the tomb first;
]he bent down and saw the burial cloths there, but did not go in.
]When Simon Peter arrived after him, he went into the tomb and saw the burial cloths there,
]and the cloth that had covered his head, not with the burial cloths but rolled up in a separate place.
]Then the other disciple also went in, the one who had arrived at the tomb first, and he saw and believed.
]For they did not yet understand the scripture that he had to rise from the dead.

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St. Hugh(Bishop (1053-1132))

SAINT HUGH Bishop (1053-1132) St. Hugh was born in Chateau-neuf, Valence, Dauphiné. His father, Odilo, was an army officer who promoted Christianity and restrained vice through regulations and punishment. He took St. Hugh's advice, became a Carthusian monk and lived to be 100. He and his wife received Extreme Unction and Viaticum from St. Hugh in their last moments. St. Hugh's relied on God's and received many graces during his canonry at the cathedral of Valence. When he was consecrated bishop of Grenoble, he implemented reforms and restrained vice. After two years, he resigned, received the habit of St. Bennet and began a novitiate at the Abbey of La Chaise-Dieu. He resumed serving as bishop after one year because of Pope Gregory VII. St. Hugh was purified with a lingering illness before passing away on April 1, 1132, two months before his eightieth birthday. He had spent the last 52 years serving as bishop. Miracles attested the sanctity of his happy death. He was canonized by Pope Innocent II in 1134.

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St. Mary of Egypt(Hermit (c. 344-421))

SAINT MARY OF EGYPTHermit(c. 344-421) St. Mary left her father's house at 12 years old and sinned egregiously. For the next 17 years, she lived in Alexandria. Once, she accompanied a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and scandalized many. When St. Mary was in Jerusalem during the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, she was unexplainably held back from entering a church that contained the True Cross. Turning to an image of the Immaculate Mother, she vowed to do penance if she could enter. She entered, knelt by the Cross and received a locution: "Pass over Jordan, and thou shalt find rest." St. Mary overcame many obstacles and moved to Jordan. Forty-seven years later, she met Abbot Zosimus. She received the Eucharist on Holy Thursday in the year 420. She and Abbot Zosimus planned to conduct apostolate the following year, but she passed away beforehand. The Bollandists claim that St. Mary passed away on April 1, 421. The Greek Church celebrates her feast on April 1; the Roman Martyrology on April 2; and the Roman Calendar on April 3.

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