Easter: April 9th

MASS READINGS

April 09, 2021 (Readings on USCCB website)

COLLECT PRAYER

Almighty ever-living God, who gave us the Paschal Mystery in the covenant you established for reconciling the human race, so dispose our minds, we pray, that what we celebrate by professing the faith we may express in deeds. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever.

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• Portuguese Chicken

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Activities (2)

• Easter Breakfast Picnic
• Liturgy of Easter Sunday and the Octave of Easter

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Prayers (11)

• Easter Week Table Blessing
• Book of Blessings: Blessing Before and After Meals: Easter Season (2nd Plan)
• Prayers for the Easter Season
• Easter Prayers (for the Octave of Easter)
• The Chaplet of the Divine Mercy
• Divine Mercy Novena
• Annunciation Novena
• Book of Blessings: Blessing Before and After Meals: Easter Week (1st Plan)
• Book of Blessings: Blessing Before and After Meals: Easter (1st Plan)
• Novena for the Annunciation
• Victimae Paschali: The Easter Sequence

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Old Calendar: Easter Friday

"Children, have you any fish?" They answered him, "No." He said to them, "Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some." So they cast it, and now they were not able to haul it in, for the quantity of fish. That disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "It is the Lord!"

Over the charcoal fire, Peter is given the opportunity to tell Jesus he loves Him, three times, repairing for his triple denial of Christ at His Passion.

Stational Church

Meditation
Easter reminds us of these fundamental requirements of the Christian life: the practice of piety and patience. Through piety we live detached from human frailties, in purity of mind and body, in union with Christ. Through patience we succeed in strengthening our character and controlling our temper so as to become more pleasing to the Lord and an example and encouragement to others, in the various contingencies of social life.

The Resurrection of the Lord truly represents—and for this reason it is celebrated every year—the renewed resurrection of every one of us to the true Christian life, the perfect Christian life which we must all try to live. "The Resurrection of Christ is the sacrament of new life."

My beloved brothers and children! First of all let us look closely at our pattern, Jesus Christ. You see that everything in His life was in preparation for His resurrection. As St Augustine says: "In Christ everything was working for His resurrection."

Born as a man, He appeared as a man for but a short time. Born of mortal flesh, He experienced all the vicissitudes of mortality. We see Him in His infancy, His boyhood, and His vigorous maturity, in which He died. He could not have risen again if He had not died; He could not have died if He had not been born; He was born and He died so that He might rise again.

This is what St Augustine tells us in simple, sublime words.

Excerpted from Prayers and Devotions from Pope John XXIII, edited by John P. Donnelly © 1967, 1966.