Holy Saturday (Easter Vigil)
I think of Easter Vigil as an annual review of faith and a sacramental celebration of God’s loving and everlasting covenant with His children. From creation to the glorious resurrection of Jesus, we are blessed in this service with reminders of God’s loving care. We are called to choose and live the life God made for us.
On Ash Wednesday we were reminded of our limits on our own from dust to dust. We have walked the weeks of Lent alongside our servant Savior, finally facing his death on a cross for the sake of all of us. He died to sin once and for all. Christ raised from the dead dies no more. And Saint Paul tells us that we too have died to sin in our faith in Christ and now live for God in our faith in the risen Christ Jesus. It is our earthly choice day after day in this life we have been given.
So, on this morning of the first day of the week, let us hurry to the tomb to with Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to anoint and mourn our Jesus. May we feel the trembling ground and our fear as we turn toward the light and an angel tells us, “Do not be afraid…He has been raised just as he said…Go quickly to Galilee, there you will see him.” May we run as Mary Magdalene and Mary did, to tell the others. May we be greeted by Him and do Him homage all along our way to Galilee.
Prayer
Stephanie Noakes, ’80, M’09, P’05
Admission Receptionist
Second Reading: Genesis 22:1-18 or 22:1-2, 9a, 10-13, 15-18
Psalm 16:5, 8-11
Third Reading: Exodus 14:15—15:1
(Psalm) Exodus 15:1-6, 17-18
Fourth Reading: Isaiah 54:5-14
Psalm 30:2, 4-6, 11-13
Fifth Reading: Isaiah 55:1-11
(Psalm) Isaiah 12:2-6
Sixth Reading: Baruch 3:9-15, 32—4:4
Psalm 19:8-11
Seventh Reading: Ezekiel 36:16-17a, 18-28
Psalm 42:3, 5; 43:3-4
Eighth Reading: Romans 6:3-11
Psalm 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23
Gospel: Matthew 28:1-10
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