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SUMMARY:Holy Saturday
DESCRIPTION:From a homily by 7\nST AUGUSTINE\n◊◊◊\nToday\, my dearest friends\, there is every reason for heaven to rejoice and earth to be glad. It is a day on which more light shines forth from the tomb than rays from the sun. When our Lord and Savior was born as one of us he brought light into the world; so also today\, being dead in the body\, he has illumined the underworld with the powerful presence of his divinity as well as of his human soul. Today at the Lord’s visitation there is leaping and dancing in the nether regions over the fulfillment of the prophecy: The people that sat in darkness(that is to say the whole human race enveloped in the gloom of Sheol) has seen a great light. He who created Adam has this day sought him out in the underworld\, and by his own power has set him free. \nWonderful beyond words is the loving kindness of our God! Death had indeed invaded Paradise\, but life has now conquered the abyss\, and by assuming our mortality the Son of God has trodden underfoot the law that all must die. Thus he has made good the prophet’s assertion: O death\, I will be your death! Those whom you have caused to die through sin I will gather up from that place of eternal ruin\, and by dying myself I will deliver them from everlasting death. \nLook now at the author of our undoing! With what snares he is entangled and fettered! As he deceived us\, so he is himself deceived; in the very act of killing he is destroyed. \nWhen the Lord’s body was laid in the tomb\, he himself descended into the lowest and most hidden abode of the infernal regions. There\, where he was presumed to be held captive\, he bound death fast\, and so broke the chains of all who had died. And from that place whence none had ever returned before\, not even alone\, he carried off an immense plunder with which he penetrated the heavens. \nSee what tremendous things God’s surpassing love has accomplished for our healing and restoration! For our sake he was led like a sheep to the slaughter\, having taken upon himself the evils of this present life in order to bestow upon us the good things of eternity. \n7\nSermo Mai 146: PLS 2\, 1242-1243(CL I p 168-169).
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SUMMARY:Skema
DESCRIPTION:Biblical Readings for Office and Mass\nEaster Octave\n\n\nMass Readings: Sunday (A)\, Weekdays (II)\nApril 5 – 11\, 2026\n\n\n\nSun\n5\nMon\n6\nTue\n7\nWed\n8\nThu\n9\nFri\n10\nSat\n11\n\n\nOffice\nEaster Sunday\nEaster Monday\nEaster Tuesday\nEaster Wednesday\nEaster Thursday\nEaster Friday\nEaster Saturday\n\n\nVigils\n* Easter Vigil\nActs 1:1-26\nActs 2:1-21\nActs 2:22-41\nActs 2:42-3:11\nActs 3:12-26;4:1-4\nActs 4:5-31\n\n\nLauds\nActs 13:28-33\n1 Cor 15:1-11\n1 Cor 15:12-19\n1 Cor 15:20-28\n1 Cor 15:35-41\n1 Cor 15:42-49\n1 Cor 15:50-58\n\n\nMass\n42\n261\n262\n263\n264\n265\n266\n\n\n1st\nActs 10:34a\, 37-43\nActs 2:14\, 22-33\nActs 2:36-41\nActs 3:1-10\nActs 3:11-26\nActs 4:1-12\nActs 4:13-21\n\n\n2nd\nCol 3:1-4\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGospel\nJohn 20:1-9\nMatt 28:8-15\nJohn 20:11-18\nLuke 24:13-35\nLuke 24:35-48\nJohn 21:1-14\nMark 16:9-15\n\n\nVespers\nRev 1:12-18\nRev 1:1-8\nRev 1:9-11\nRev 2:1-7\nRev 2:8-11\nRev 2:12-17\nRev 2:18-29\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEaster Vigil Readings* 1st) Gen 1:1-2:2 2nd) Gen 22:1-18 3rd) Exod 14:15-15:1 4th) Isa 54:5-14 5th) Isa 55:1-11 6th) Bar 3:9-15\,32-4:4 7th) Ezek 36:16-17a\,18-28 Epistle) Rom 6:3-11 Gospel) Matt 28:1-10
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Easter Sunday
DESCRIPTION:From a commentary by \nRUFINUS OF AQUILEIA \n◊◊◊ \n“On the third day He rose again from the dead.” The glory of His \nresurrection brought out in Christ the splendor of everything that previously \nseemed feeble and weak. If a few moments ago you thought it impossible for \nOne who was immortal to reach death\, you can now perceive the impossibility of \nHis being mortal who is declared to have vanquished death and to have risen \nagain. \nIn this you should discern the Creator’s goodness\, in His readiness to \nfollow you down to the depths to which your sins have plunged you. You should \nnot\, either\, suggest that anything is impossible for God\, the Creator of all things\, \nimagining that His work could have been brought to an end by falling into an \nabyss to which He could not penetrate in order to accomplish salvation… \nSo He returned victoriously from the dead\, bringing with Him spoils from \nhell. For He conducted forth those whom death held prisoners\, as He Himself \nhad prophesied in the words: “When I am lifted up from the earth\, I will draw \nall things to myself.” The Gospel bears witness to this when it states: “The \ngraves were opened\, and many bodies of the saints that slept arose\, and they \nappeared to many\, and entered into the holy city.” By this is meant…the city \nintended by the Apostle when he wrote: “But that Jerusalem\, which is above is \nfree: which is mother of us all.” \nHe made the same point again to the Hebrews: “For it became Him for \nwhom are all things\, and by whom are all things\, who had brought many \nchildren to glory\, to perfect the author of their salvation by His passion.” By \nHis passion\, therefore\, He made perfect that human flesh which had been \nbrought down to death by the first man’s sin\, and restored it by the power of His \nresurrection: sitting on God’s right hand\, He placed it in the highest heavens. In \nview of this the Apostle says: “Who has raised us up together\, and has made us \nsit together in the heavenly places.” \nIt was He\, you see\, who was the potter mentioned by the prophet \nJeremias: “The vessel which had fallen from His hand and was broken\, He \nagain raised up with His hands and formed anew\, as it seemed good in His \neyes.” So it seemed good to Him to raise the mortal and corruptible body He had \nassumed from the rocky tomb\, and rendering it immortal and incorruptible to \nplace it\, no longer in an earthly environment\, but in heaven at His Father’s right \nhand…
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Easter Monday
DESCRIPTION:From a homily by \nPOPE BENEDICT XVI \n◊◊◊ \n“You seek Jesus of Nazareth\, who was crucified. He is risen. He is not \nhere.” With these words\, God’s messenger\, robed in light\, spoke to the women \nwho were looking for the body of Jesus in the tomb. \nBut the evangelist says the same thing to us: Jesus is not a character of the \npast. He lives and He walks before us as one who is alive; he calls us to follow \nhim\, the Living One\, and in this way to discover for ourselves the path of life. \nAt Easter we rejoice because Christ did not remain in the tomb\, his body \ndid not see corruption; he belongs to the world of the living\, not to the world of \nthe dead; we rejoice because he is the Alpha and also the Omega\, as we proclaim \nin the Rite of the Paschal candle; he lives not only yesterday\, but today and for \neternity. \nBut somehow the Resurrection is situated so far beyond our horizon\, so \nfar outside all our experience that\, returning to ourselves\, we find ourselves \ncontinuing the argument of the disciples: Of what exactly does this “rising” \nconsist? What does it mean for us\, for the whole world\, and the whole of history? \nA theologian once said that the miracle of a corpse returning to life would \nbe ultimately irrelevant precisely because it would not concern us. In fact if it \nwere simply that someone was once brought back to life\, and no more than that\, \nin what way would that concern us? But the point is that Christ’s Resurrection is \nsomething more\, something different… It is the…most crucial leap into a totally \nnew dimension that there has ever been in the long history of life and its \ndevelopment: a leap into a completely new order which does concern us\, and \nconcerns the whole of history. \nThe crucial point is that this man Jesus was not alone\, he was not an “I” \nclosed in upon itself. He was one single reality with the living God\, so closely \nunited with him as to form one Person with him. He found himself\, so to speak\, \nin an embrace with him who is life itself\, an embrace not just on the emotional \nlevel\, but one which included and permeated his being. His own life was not just \nhis own\, it was an existential and essential communion with God\, a “being taken \nup” into God\, and hence\, it could not in reality be taken away from him. \nOut of love\, he could allow himself to be killed\, but precisely by doing so \nhe broke the definitiveness of death\, because in him the definitiveness of life \nwas present. He was one single reality with indestructible life\, in such a way that \nit burst forth anew through death… \nHis death was an act of love\, of self-giving. At the Last Supper he \nanticipated death and transformed it into self-giving. His existential \ncommunion with God was concretely an existential communion with God’s \nlove\, and this love is the real power against death\, it is stronger than death. \nThe Resurrection was like an explosion of light\, an explosion of love which \ndissolved the hitherto indissoluble compenetration of “dying and becoming”. It \nushered in a new dimension of being. A new dimension of life in which\, in a \ntransformed way\, matter too was integrated and through which a new world \nemerges.
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Easter Tuesday
DESCRIPTION:From a prayer by \nWILLIAM OF ST THIERRY \n◊◊◊ \nO Truth supreme\, you are the heaven of heavens\, you who are what you \nare\, who have your being from yourself\, who belong to yourself and are \nsufficient to yourself. You lack nothing\, yet you have no excess; you have within \nyourself supremest concord\, utmost clarity\, most perfect fullness and \ncompletest life. \nO Lord\, the height\, the depth\, the wisdom and the might – are these the \nheaven of which you are the door? It is so\, truly; that is why the ark of the \ncovenant was seen in heaven when the door was opened… You are yourself that \nark. In you from all eternity was hidden\, and in you in these latter days has been \nfulfilled\, all that from the beginning of the world has been revealed to all the \nsaints and prophets by the Law and by the prophecies\, by wonders and by \nsigns… \nThese blessings\, that were hidden in your secret heaven through the ages\, \nyou at the ages’ end unveiled to the world’s longing eyes\, when you opened in \nheaven the door that is yourself. You opened that door when your grace \nappeared to all [people]\, teaching us… The heavens being thus opened\, all the \ngood and glory and delight of heaven poured itself out on earth. And then\, O \nGod\, who spared not your own Son\, but delivered him up for us all\, the \ngreatness of your kindness…to us was published openly to all. You made known \nyour salvation to the world\, and in the sight of all the nations you revealed your \nrighteousness… \nThose unsearchable riches of your glory\, Lord\, were hidden in your secret \nplace in heaven until the soldier’s spear opened the side of your Son our Lord \nand Savior on the cross\, and from it flowed the mysteries of our redemption. \nNow we may not only thrust our finger or our hand into his side\, like Thomas\, \nbut through that open door may enter whole\, O Jesus\, even into your heart\, the \nsure seat of your mercy\, even into your holy soul that is filled with the fullness of \nGod\, full of grace and truth\, full of our salvation and our consolation… \nOpen\, O Lord\, the ark-door of your side\, that all your own who shall be \nsaved may enter in\, before this flood that overwhelms the earth. Open to us your \nbody’s side\, that those who long to see the secrets of your Son may enter in\, and \nmay receive the sacraments that flow [from there]\, even the price of their \nredemption. Open the door of your heaven\, that your redeemed may see the \ngood things of God in the land of the living\, though they still labor in the land of \nthe dying… \nOpen to me\, O Lord\, so that\, although I am a stranger unworthy of \nenrollment as a citizen\, yet nonetheless\, I may by your gift be suffered on \noccasion for a little while to journey there\, that I may truly see your glory\, and \nnot come out again unless I am thrown out!.. O\, if only I may see\, if only I may \npersevere\, if only I may hear some day: “Enter into the joy of your Lord\,” and \nmay thus enter in\, never to come out again!
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