First Reading: Genesis 1:1-2:2 or 1:1, 26-31a

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 104:1-2, 5-6, 10, 12, 13-14, 24, 35

Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth.

Or:

Responsorial Psalm: 33:4-5, 6-7, 12-13, 20 and 22

The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord.

Second Reading: Genesis 22:1-18 or 22:1-1, 9a, 10-13, 15-18

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 16:5, 8, 9-10, 11

You are my inheritance, O Lord.

Third Reading: Exodus 14:15-15:1

Responsorial Psalm: Exodus 15:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 17-18

Let us sing to the Lord; he has covered himself in glory!

Fourth Reading: Isaiah 54:5-14

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 30:2, 4, 5-6, 11-12, 13

I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me. 

Fifth Reading: Isaiah 55:1-11

Responsorial Psalm: Isaiah 12:2-3, 4, 5-6

You will draw water joyfully from the springs of salvation. 

Sixth Reading: Baruch 3:9-15, 32-4:4

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 19:8, 9, 10, 11

Lord, you have the words of everlasting life. 

Seventh Reading: Ezekiel 36:15-17a, 18-28

Responsorial Psalm (When baptism is celebrated): Psalm 42:3, 5; 43:3, 4

Like a deer that longs for running streams, my soul longs for you, my God.

Responsorial Psalm (When baptism is not celebrated): Isaiah 12:2-3, 4bcd, 5-6

You will draw water joyfully from the springs of salvation.

Or:

Responsorial Psalm (When baptism is not celebrated): Psalm 51:12-13, 14-15, 18-19

Create a clean heart in me, O God.

Epistle: Romans 6:3-11

Alleluia:  Psalm 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23

Gospel: Mark 16:1-7

Prayer over the offerings: Accept, we ask, O Lord,
the prayers of your people
with the sacrificial offerings,
that what has begun in the paschal mysteries
may, by the working of your power,
bring us to the healing of eternity.
Through Christ our Lord.

Communion Antiphon: Christ our Passover has been sacrificed; therefore let us keep the feast with the unleavened bread of purity and truth, alleluia. (1 Cor 5: 7-8)

Prayer after Communion: Pour out on us, O Lord, the Spirit of your love,
and in your kindness make those you have nourished
by this paschal Sacrament
one in mind and heart.
Through Christ our Lord.

 

Suggested Music:


Responsorial Psalm (after First Reading, first option): from the Ignatius Pew Missal

Responsorial Psalm (after First Reading, second option): from the Ignatius Pew Missal 

Responsorial Psalm (after Second Reading): from the Ignatius Pew Missal

Responsorial Psalm (after Third Reading): from the Ignatius Pew Missal

Responsorial Psalm (after Fourth Reading): from the Ignatius Pew Missal

Responsorial Psalm (after Fifth Reading): from the Ignatius Pew Missal

Responsorial Psalm (after Sixth Reading): from the Ignatius Pew Missal 

Responsorial Psalm (after Seventh Reading, when baptism is celebrated): from the Ignatius Pew Missal 

Responsorial Psalm (after Seventh Reading, when baptism is not celebrated, first option): from the Ignatius Pew Missal 

Responsorial Psalm (after Seventh Reading, when baptism is not celebrated, second option): from the Ignatius Pew Missal

Alleluia: from the Ignatius Pew Missal

Baptismal Liturgy: from the Ignatius Pew Missal

Offertory: O Thou, The Heaven’s Eternal King

Communion Antiphon: from the Ignatius Pew Missal
A Eucharistic Hymn is appropriate after communion.

Recessional: Jesus Christ is Risen Today

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