BULLETIN FOR EASTER SUNDAY, APRIL 20TH, 2025

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​​​​​​​​​​​​​RESURRECTION OF OUR LORD
EASTER DAY
SUNDAY, APRIL 20TH, 2025

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INTRODUCTION​

“The last enemy to be destroyed is death,” Paul writes. Today Christ is risen, and
     we gather together with astonishment and joy. Christ is risen, and we have been
     set free from the bonds of death. Christ is risen, and we are forgiven. Christ is
     risen, and with the women at the tomb and Peter, we are amazed. Let us rejoice:
     Christ is risen indeed! Alleluia!

PRAYER OF THE DAY

     O God, you gave your only Son to suffer death on the cross for our redemption,    
     and by his glorious resurrection you delivered us from the power of death. Make
     us die every day to sin, that we may live with him forever in the joy of the
     resurrection, through your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with
     you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.​

FIRST READING

ACTS 10:34-43
Peter’s sermon, delivered at the home of Cornelius, a Roman army officer, is a
     summary of the essential message of Christianity: Everyone who believes in
     Jesus, whose life, death, and resurrection fulfilled the words of the prophets,
     receives forgiveness of sins through his name.

34 Peter began to speak to [the people]: “I truly understand that God shows no
     partiality, 35 but in every people anyone who fears him and practices
     righteousness is acceptable to him. 36 You know the message he sent to the
     people of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ—he is Lord of all. 37 That
     message spread throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that
     John announced: 38 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit
     and with power; how he went about doing good and healing all who were
     oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. 39 We are witnesses to all that he
     did both in Judea and in Jerusalem. They put him to death by hanging him on a
     tree, 40 but God raised him on the third day and allowed him to appear, 41 not to
     all the people but to us who were chosen by God as witnesses and who ate and
     drank with him after he rose from the dead. 42 He commanded us to preach to
     the people and to testify that he is the one ordained by God as judge of the living
     and the dead. 43 All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in
     him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”

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PSALM

PSALM 118:1-2, 14-24
(Response) This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. (Ps. 118:24)

1 Give thanks to the Lord, for the Lord is good;
God’s mercy endures forever.
2 Let Israel now declare,
“God’s mercy endures forever.”
14 The Lord is my strength and my song,
and has become my salvation.
15 Shouts of rejoicing and salvation echo in the tents of the righteous:
“The right hand of the Lord acts valiantly!
16 The right hand of the Lord is exalted!
The right hand of the Lord acts valiantly!”
17 I shall not die, but live,
and declare the works of the Lord.
(Response) This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. (Ps. 118:24)

18 The Lord indeed punished me sorely,
but did not hand me over to death.
19 Open for me the gates of righteousness;
I will enter them and give thanks to the Lord.
20 “This is the gate of the Lord;
here the righteous may enter.”
21 I give thanks to you, for you have answered me
and you have become my salvation.
(Response) This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. (Ps. 118:24)

22 The stone that the builders rejected
has become the chief cornerstone.
23 By the Lord has this been done;
it is marvelous in our eyes.
24 This is the day that the Lord has made;
let us rejoice and be glad in it.
(Response) This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. (Ps. 118:24)

SECOND READING

1ST CORINTHIANS 15:19-26
     Paul describes the consequences of the resurrection, including the promise of
     new life in Christ to a world that has been in bondage to death. He celebrates the
     destruction of evil and the establishment of God’s victorious rule over all.

19 If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied.
     20 But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who
     have died. 21 For since death came through a human, the resurrection of the
     dead has also come through a human, 22 for as all die in Adam, so all will be
     made alive in Christ. 23 But each in its own order: Christ the first fruits, then at his
     coming those who belong to Christ. 24 Then comes the end, when he hands over
     the kingdom to God the Father, after he has destroyed every ruler and every
     authority and power. 25 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under
     his feet. 26 The last enemy to be destroyed is death.

​​​​GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
Alleluia. Christ, our paschal lamb, has been sacrificed.

Therefore, let us keep the feast. Alleluia. (1 Cor. 5:7, 8)

GOSPEL READING

LUKE 24:1-12
Evidently expecting to find Jesus’ corpse, some of the women among his
     followers go to the tomb with embalming spices. After a perplexing encounter
     with the empty tomb and angelic visitors, the women become the first to proclaim
     the amazing news of resurrection.

1 On the first day of the week, at early dawn, [the women] went to the tomb,
     taking the spices that they had prepared. 2 They found the stone rolled away from
     the tomb, 3 but when they went in they did not find the body. 4 While they were
     perplexed about this, suddenly two men in dazzling clothes stood beside them.
     5 The women were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, but the men
     said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here but
     has risen. 6 Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee, 7 that the
     Son of Man must be handed over to the hands of sinners and be crucified and on
     the third day rise again.” 8 Then they remembered his words, 9 and returning from
     the tomb they told all this to the eleven and to all the rest. 10 Now it was Mary
     Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them
     who told this to the apostles. 11 But these words seemed to them an idle tale,
     and they did not believe them. 12 But Peter got up and ran to the tomb; stooping
     and looking in, he saw the linen cloths by themselves; then he went home,
     amazed at what had happened.​

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