Sunday Lectionary Readings

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The Collect

Saturday in Easter Week
We thank you, heavenly Father, that you have delivered us from the dominion of sin and death and brought us into the kingdom of your Son; and we pray that, as by his death he has recalled us to life, so by his love he may raise us to eternal joys; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen
Preface of Easter

Old Testament Reading

[No Readings assigned for this day.]

Psalm

Psalm 118:14-18
¹⁴The LORD is my strength and song,
And He has become my salvation.

¹⁵The voice of rejoicing and salvation
Is in the tents of the righteous;
The right hand of the LORD does valiantly.

¹⁶The right hand of the LORD is exalted;
The right hand of the LORD does valiantly.

¹⁷I shall not die, but live,
And declare the works of the LORD.

¹⁸The LORD has chastened me severely,
But He has not given me over to death.

-- NKJV

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Psalm 118:19-24
¹⁹Open to me the gates of righteousness;
I will go through them,
And I will praise the LORD.

²⁰This is the gate of the LORD,
Through which the righteous shall enter.

²¹I will praise You,
For You have answered me,
And have become my salvation.

²²The stone which the builders rejected
Has become the chief cornerstone.

²³This was the LORD's doing;
It is marvelous in our eyes.

²⁴This is the day the LORD has made;
We will rejoice and be glad in it.

-- NKJV

New Testament Reading

Acts 4:13-21
¹³Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated and untrained men, they marveled. And they realized that they had been with Jesus. ¹⁴And seeing the man who had been healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it. ¹⁵But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves, ¹⁶saying, "What shall we do to these men? For, indeed, that a notable miracle has been done through them is evident to all who dwell in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it. ¹⁷But so that it spreads no further among the people, let us severely threaten them, that from now on they speak to no man in this name." ¹⁸So they called them and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus. ¹⁹But Peter and John answered and said to them, "Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you more than to God, you judge. ²⁰For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard." ²¹So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way of punishing them, because of the people, since they all glorified God for what had been done. -- NKJV

Gospel Reading

Mark 16:9-15,20
⁹Now when He rose early on the first day of the week, He appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom He had cast seven demons. ¹⁰She went and told those who had been with Him, as they mourned and wept. ¹¹And when they heard that He was alive and had been seen by her, they did not believe. ¹²After that, He appeared in another form to two of them as they walked and went into the country. ¹³And they went and told it to the rest, but they did not believe them either. ¹⁴Later He appeared to the eleven as they sat at the table; and He rebuked their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen Him after He had risen. ¹⁵And He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. ²⁰And they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word through the accompanying signs. Amen. -- NKJV

The Preface

Preface of Easter
But chiefly are we bound to praise you for the glorious resurrection of your Son Jesus Christ our Lord; for he is the true Paschal Lamb, who was sacrificed for us, and has taken away the sin of the world. By his death he has destroyed death, and by his rising to life again he has won for us everlasting life.

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