INTROIT

Eduxit eos (Psalm 78)

Priest:  The Lord hath brought them out safely, alleluia:
People: And overwhelmed their enemies with the sea, alleluia,
Priest:  Alleluia,
People:  Alleluia.  §

Priest: Hear my law, O my people:
People: Incline your ears unto the words of my mouth.
Priest:  Glory be ...
People:  As it was ...

(Repeat to §.)

Almighty and everlasting God, who hast bestowed on us this Paschal Sacrament, for a pledge of our redemption: grant, we beseech thee; that those things which we observe in our outward profession we may effectually imitate within our souls.  Through.

The 2nd Prayer, for the Church, as in Seasonal Prayers, after Low Sunday.

THE EPISTLE

I Peter 3.18-22

Dearly beloved: Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:   By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;  Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.  The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:  Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God

GRADUAL, ALLELUIA AND SEQUENCE

Priest:  (Psalm 118) This is the day which the Lord hath made:
People: We will rejoice and be glad in it.
Priest:  Blessed is he that cometh in the Name of the Lord:
People: God is the Lord, who hath shewed us light.
Priest:  Alleluia,
People: Alleluia.
Priest:  (Psalm96) Tell it out among the heathen:
People:  That the Lord hath reigned from the Tree.

Victimae Paschali

Priest:   Christians to the Paschal Victim offer your thankful praises.
            The Lamb the sheep redeemeth:
People:  Christ by sin undefiled, reconcileth sinners to the Father.
Priest:   Death and life are joined together in that conflict stupendous:
People:  The King of life who died deathless reigneth.
Priest:    Declare to us, Mary, the vision of thy journey:
People:  “I saw the tomb of Christ living: and likewise the glory of the Risen:
Priest:   Bright Angels attesting, the shroud and napkin resting.
People  Yea, Christ my hope is arisen: to Galilee he now goes before you.”
Priest:   Christ indeed from death is risen, so we know most surely:
People:  O King and Conqueror, grant to us mercy.
All:       Amen, Alleluia.

THE GOSPEL

St. Matthew 28.16--20

AT that time: The eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them.  And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted.  And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.  Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:  Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.
 

The Creed is said.

OFFERTORY  Exodus 12.14

This day shall be unto you for a memorial, alleluia: and ye shall keep it for a feast to the Lord throughout your generations: ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.

SECRET

We beseech thee, O Lord, mercifully to accept these our oblations: which we offer unto thee for the atonement of the sins of them that are born again in thee, and for the speedy attaining of thy heavenly succour.  Through.

COMMUNION  St. Matthew 28

All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth, alleluia: go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, alleluia, alleluia.

POSTCOMMUNION

O Lord, we pray thee, mercifully to have respect unto thy people: and as thou hast vouchsafed to renew them with thine everlasting mysteries; so of thy goodness deliver them from guilt in all things temporal.  Through.

Priest:  Depart in peace, alleluia, alleluia.
People:  Thanks be to God, alleluia, alleluia.

And thus is said the Dismissal until Saturday in Easter Week  inclusive.
 

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