Sunday

1 Apr 2018

Solemnity of the Resurrection of the Lord (Easter Sunday), Cycle B Click here for all content for this cycle Solemnity of the Resurrection of the Lord (Easter Sunday), Cycle B

SUNDAY SUMMARY

Acts of the Apostles 10:34a, 37-43  Peter proclaims the gospel in the house of Cornelius. 

Psalm 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23  This is the day the Lord has made, wonderful in our eyes.

Colossians 3:1-4  We are urged to keep our sights on the eternal and not on the temporal.

John 20:1-9  The disciples are in a contest for Easter understanding.

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Homilist’s overview of April

Liturgical themes and feasts

Easter season begins day one of this month, starting with an octave that ends coincidentally with the Easter of our Orthodox friends on Divine Mercy Sunday (8). Good Shepherd Sunday (22) is World Day of Prayer for Vocations.

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The inner word

What’s in your heart?

The reading from Acts of the Apostles is a kind of “mini-gospel”: We hear of the baptism John preached and of Jesus anointed with spirit and power, going about doing good and healing, and of his death and Resurrection. We hear ourselves included in the story: those to whom Jesus is visible, who eat and drink with him, who preach and witness to him.

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Exploring the word

Seeing and believing

Sooner or later, you and I end up visiting the cemetery. The older we get, the more personal significance such visits have for us. More names on the headstones are familiar. We begin to count off the funerals we’ve been to. We remember the good old times with people we knew and maybe some last words.

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In other words

The Sunday gospel in everyday English

Early in the morning on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone was moved away from the entrance. She ran at once to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, breathlessly panting, “They took the Master from the tomb. We don’t know where they’ve put him.”

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Homily stories

My Easter angel

The blessing of Easter baskets is a tradition from Eastern Europe still celebrated in many churches on Holy Saturday, leaving behind the smell of sausage, ham, and fresh baked bread to complete with the more traditional scents of beeswax and incense.

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Homily stories

The word at work: Join the parade

The pastor of a rundown urban parish wanted an old-fashioned Easter parade to liven things up. So his never-say-die events coordinator made it happen.

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Homily stories

The word at home: Basket case

I’ve always had a hard time with Easter. Maybe it’s that I don’t do well when I eat too much candy, which I inevitably do on Easter Sunday. But I find Easter a difficult day to celebrate. I feel a lot like the disciples who, even after Jesus’ Resurrection, scurried back to the upper room uncertain and confused.

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Homily stories

So here it is: Easter

Why should we be thinking about what has perhaps been the most popular movie ever of the season—the Christmas season, that is, It’s a Wonderful Life? Sure, its heartwarming, climactic ending occurs next to a Christmas tree and snow is falling and Jimmy Stewart is singing “Auld Lang Syne” off key. But in reality, it is a movie made more for what Easter is all about than Christmas.

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Prayers

Penitential Act & Prayer of the Faithful

We call on the name of our risen Lord, who forgives our sins.

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Quotes

Before the Resurrection of Jesus, the disciples had not perceived the true significance of their master’s person and work. . . . It could be said that from “disciples” Jesus’ followers became true “believers” through the Easter experience.

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