Eastertide – a Single Joyful Feast

No matter which translation we read, as a worldwide church we celebrate God’s love for us at Easter.

  • Greater love than this hath no man, when any man bestoweth his life for his friends. — 1599 Geneva Bible
  • This is the very best way to love. Put your life on the line for your friends. — The Message
  • Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. — English Standard Version Anglicised
  • And here is how to measure it—the greatest love is shown when a person lays down his life for his friends; — Living Bible

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Eastertide is the period of fifty days from Easter Sunday to Pentecost Sunday.

It is celebrated as a single joyful feast, indeed as the “great Lord’s Day”. Each Sunday of the season is treated as a Sunday of Easter, and, after the Sunday of the Resurrection, they are named Second Sunday of Easter, Third Sunday of Easter, etc. up to the Seventh Sunday of Easter, while the whole fifty-day period concludes with Pentecost Sunday.

Readings

Easter
Year A		 First reading Psalm Second reading Gospel
Easter Vigil
April 9, 2023
ART — PRAYER		 Old Testament Readings and Psalms

 

  • Genesis 1:1-2:4a and Psalm 136:1-9, 23-26
  • Genesis 7:1-5, 11-18; 8:6-18; 9:8-13 and Psalm 46
  • Genesis 22:1-18 and Psalm 16
  • Exodus 14:10-31; 15:20-21 and Exodus 15:1b-13, 17-18
  • Isaiah 55:1-11 and Isaiah 12:2-6
  • Baruch 3:9-15, 3:32-4:4 or Proverbs 8:1-8, 19-21; 9:4b-6 and Psalm 19
  • Ezekiel 36:24-28 and Psalm 42, 43
  • Ezekiel 37:1-14 and Psalm 143
  • Zephaniah 3:14-20 and Psalm 98

New Testament Reading and Psalm

  • Romans 6:3-11 and Psalm 114

Gospel

  • Matthew 28:1-10
Resurrection of the Lord
April 9, 2023
Easter Day
ART — PRAYER		 *Acts 10:34-43
or
Jeremiah 31:1-6		 Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24 Colossians 3:1-4
or
Acts 10:34-43		 John 20:1-18
or
Matthew 28:1-10
Easter Evening
April 9, 2023
ART — PRAYER		 Isaiah 25:6-9 Psalm 114 1 Corinthians 5:6b-8 Luke 24:13-49
Second Sunday of Easter
April 16, 2023
ART — PRAYER		 *Acts 2:14a, 22-32 Psalm 16 1 Peter 1:3-9 John 20:19-31
Third Sunday of Easter
April 23, 2023
ART — PRAYER		 *Acts 2:14a, 36-41 Psalm 116:1-4, 12-19 1 Peter 1:17-23 Luke 24:13-35
Fourth Sunday of Easter
April 30, 2023
ART — PRAYER		 *Acts 2:42-47 Psalm 23 1 Peter 2:19-25 John 10:1-10
Fifth Sunday of Easter
May 7, 2023
ART — PRAYER		 *Acts 7:55-60 Psalm 31:1-5, 15-16 1 Peter 2:2-10 John 14:1-14
Sixth Sunday of Easter
May 14, 2023
ART — PRAYER		 *Acts 17:22-31 Psalm 66:8-20 1 Peter 3:13-22 John 14:15-21
Ascension of the Lord
May 18, 2023
ART — PRAYER		 *Acts 1:1-11 Psalm 47
or
Psalm 93		 Ephesians 1:15-23 Luke 24:44-53
Seventh Sunday of Easter
May 21, 2023
(If Ascension not observed here)
ART — PRAYER		 *Acts 1:6-14 Psalm 68:1-10, 32-35 1 Peter 4:12-14; 5:6-11 John 17:1-11
Visitation of Mary to Elizabeth 
May 28, 2023
ART — PRAYER		 *1 Samuel 2:1-10 Psalm 113 Romans 12:9-16b Luke 1:39-57
Day of Pentecost
May 28, 2023
ART — PRAYER		 *Acts 2:1-21
or
Numbers 11:24-30		 Psalm 104:24-34, 35b 1 Corinthians 12:3b-13
or
Acts 2:1-21		 John 20:19-23
or
John 7:37-39
  Italicized readings, complementary to the standard reading, may be used with, or in place of it.

* During Eastertide a reading from Acts is often substituted for the lesson from the Hebrew Bible. On the Day of Pentecost, if the Old Testament passage from Genesis is chosen for the first reading, the passage from Acts is used as the second reading.

 

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