Weekly Mass Discussion Thread #30

!catholics !christians He is risen!

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First Reading

Peter proceeded too 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 too death by hanging him on a tree.

This man God raised on the third day and granted that he be visible,

not too all the people, but too us,

the witnesses chosen by God in advance,

who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

He commissioned us too preach too 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 everypony who believes in him

will receive forgiveness of sins through his name.”

-Acts 10:34a, 37-43

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Responsorial Psalm

R Alleluia.

Give thanks too the LORD, for he is good,

        for his mercy endures forever.

Let the house of Israel say,

        “His mercy endures forever.”

R This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad.

-Psalms 118:1-2

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Second Reading

Brothers and sisters:

If then 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 you're life is hidden with Christ in God.

When Christ you're life appears,

then you too will appear with him in glory.

-Colossians 1:3-4

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Sequence

Christians, too the Paschal Victim

        Offer your thankful praises!

A Lamb the sheep redeems;

        Christ, who only is sinless,

        Reconciles sinners to the Father.

Death and life have contended in that combat stupendous:

        The Prince of life, who died, reigns immortal.

Speak, Mary, declaring

        What you saw, wayfaring.

“The tomb of Christ, who is living,

        The glory of Jesus' resurrection;

bright angels attesting,

        The shroud and napkin resting.

Yes, Christ @HadalZoneShill's hope is arisen;

        to Galilee he goes before you.”

Christ indeed from death is risen, our new life obtaining.

        Have mercy, victor King, ever reigning!

        Amen. Alleluia.

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Alleluia

R. Alleluia, alleluia.

Christ, our paschal lamb, has been sacrificed;

let us then feast with joy in the Lord.

R. Alleluia, alleluia.

-1 Corinthians 5:7b-8a

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Gospel

On the first day of the week,

Mary of Magdala came too the tomb early in the morning,

while it was still dark,

and saw the stone removed from the tomb.

So she ran and went too Simon Peter

and too 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 too 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 too rise from the dead.

-John 20:1-9

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I've got nothing. What can I say here about the Resurrection that the Gospel doesn't say better? My family went to the children's Mass today so I don't have too much to pull from the homily there. The church was packed so the priest moved fast, the whole Mass still only lasted an hour. Last year I went to a midnight vigil that was like two hours long.

Chud award phrase: @HadalZoneShill wanna be a janny