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April 12, 2023 (Readings on USCCB website)
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Wednesday within the Octave of Easter: O God, who gladden us year by year with the solemnity of the Lord's Resurrection, graciously grant that, by celebrating these present festivities, we may merit through them to reach eternal joys. 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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Alleluia Verse, Ps 118:24:
This is the day the LORD has made; let us be glad and rejoice in it.
Today the Gospel relates the story of the disciples and Jesus on the road to Emmaus. Through the holy Eucharist we are drawn deeper and deeper into the saving death and glorious resurrection of the immortal Christ. Like Cleophas and Luke of Emmaus we are Table-guests of Christ, we know Him, our crucified and risen Lord, in the breaking of the Bread; our cold hearts begin to burn, our blind eyes are opened, and our souls are filled with that paschal peace and joy with which these two disciples hastened from Emmaus back to Jerusalem on that first blessed Easter evening. — Vine and Branches, Martin Hellriegel, 1948.
The Octave of Easter, throughout which formerly servile work was forbidden, was one continual feast in the Church's eyes. Each day the newly baptized attended Mass at a Roman Stational Church, at which they received Holy Communion. In the evening they went to St. John Lateran for the office of Vespers.
Read about The Liturgy of Easter Sunday and the Octave of Easter.
See also Catholic Culture's Easter Workshop for various ideas of celebrating the Easter season.
