3RD SUNDAY OF EASTER
19th April ​​​
‘Lord Jesus, open the Scriptures to us;
make our hearts burn within us when you speak to us.’
Liturgical Colour: White
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​Entrance Antiphon: Cf. Psalm 65: 1-2
Cry out with joy to God, all the earth;
O sing to the glory of his name.
O render him glorious praise, alleluia.
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Opening Prayer
May your people exult for ever, O God,
in renewed youthfulness of spirit,
so that, rejoicing now in the restored glory of our adoption,
we may look forward in confident hope
to the rejoicing of the day of resurrection.
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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DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY (2ND SUNDAY OF EASTER)
(Acts 2:42-47; Ps 118(117); 1 Peter 1:3-9; John 20:19-31)
Theme: The Fruits of Adam’s Happy Fault
After the first man’s fall, our nature grew old in sin, suffering, and death. But after our Lord Jesus’s resurrection, it was raised, redeemed, restored, and purified, enabling us to receive the grace of holiness and to seek the power to overcome natural and human calamities.
In other words, having been redeemed by the Blood of our Lord Jesus and born anew through the Spirit, we were enthroned by grace and given the powers to withstand calamities. As St. Peter reminds us in the second reading, we have received the breath of living hope, which empowers us to pursue an imperishable and undefiled inheritance, kept in heaven for members of God’s new community, who, led by faith, seek ultimate salvation.