Introit: Psalms civ. 43

    The Lord brought forth His people with joy, alleluia: and His chosen ones with gladness, alleluia, alleluia. Ps. Give glory to the Lord, and call upon His name: declare His deeds among the Gentiles. ℣. Glory be to the Father.

Collect

    Grant, we beseech Thee, almighty God, that we who have kept with veneration the Easter solemnities may deserve through them to attain eternal joys. Through our Lord.

Commemoration of Sts. Cletus & Marcellinus:

Collect

    Eternal Shepherd, look graciously upon Thy flock, and through blessed Cletus and Marcellinus Thy martyrs and supreme Pontiffs, whom Thou didst appoint Pastors of the universal Church, keep it under Thy continual protection. Through our Lord.

Epistle: 1 Peter ii. 1-10

    Lesson from the Epistle of blessed Peter the Apostle. Dearly beloved, laying away all malice and all guile, and dissimulations and envies and all detractions, as newborn babes, desire the rational milk without guile, that thereby you may grow unto salvation: if so be you have tasted that the Lord is sweet. Unto whom coming as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men but chosen and made honorable by God: be you also as living stones built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. Wherefore it is said in the Scripture: Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner-stone, elect, precious: and he that shall believe in Him shall not be confounded. To you therefore that believe, He is honor: but to them that believe not, the stone which the builders rejected, the same is made the head of the corner: and a stone of stumbling and a rock of scandal to them who stumble at the word, neither do believe, whereunto also they are set. But you are a chosen generation, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people: that you may declare His virtues, who hath called you out of darkness into His marvelous light: who in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

First Alleluia: Psalms cxvii. 24

    Alleluia, alleluia. ℣. This is the day which the Lord hath made: let us rejoice and be glad in it.

Second Alleluia: Psalms cxii. 1

    Alleluia. ℣. Praise the Lord, O ye His servants, praise the name of the Lord.

Sequence: Victimae Paschali Laudes

    Forth to the paschal Victim, Christians, bring / Your sacrifice of praise: The Lamb redeems the sheep; / And Christ the sinless One, / Hath to the Father sinners reconciled. Together, death and life / In a strange conflict strove. / The Prince of life, who died, / Now lives and reigns. What thou sawest, Mary, say, / As thou wentest on the way. I saw the tomb wherein the living one had lain; / I saw His glory as He rose again; Napkin and linen clothes, and angels twain: Yea, Christ is risen, my hope, and He / Will go before you into Galilee. We know that Christ indeed has risen from the grave: / Hail, Thou King of Victory, / Have mercy, Lord, and save. / Amen. Alleluia.

Gospel: John xx. 1-9

    + The continuation of the holy Gospel according to St. John. At that time, on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalen cometh early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre: and she saw the stone taken away from the sepulchre. She ran therefore and cometh to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved and saith to them: They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid Him. Peter therefore went out, and that other disciple, and they came to the sepulchre. And they both ran together, and that other disciple did outrun Peter and came first to the sepulchre. And when he stooped down, he saw the linen cloths lying, but yet he went not in. Then cometh Simon Peter, following him, and went into the sepulchre, and saw the linen cloths lying, and the napkin that hath been about His head, not lying with the linen cloths, but apart, wrapped up into one place. Then that other disciple also went in, who came first to the sepulchre: and he saw and believed, for as yet they knew not the Scripture, that He must rise again from the dead.

Offertory: Psalms cxvii. 26-27

    Blessed be He that cometh in the name of the Lord! We have blessed you out of the house of the Lord. God is the Lord and hath shone upon us, alleluia, alleluia.

Secret

    We beseech Thee, O Lord, grant us ever to rejoice through these Paschal mysteries, that the continual work of our reparation may become for us a cause of perpetual joy. Through our Lord.

Commemoration of Sts. Cletus & Marcellinus:

Secret

    We beseech Thee, O Lord, having offered our gifts, benignly enlighten Thy Church, both that the success of Thy flock may everywhere progress, and under Thy guidance Thy pastors may be pleasing to Thy name. Through our Lord.

Communion: Galatians iii. 27

    All you who have been baptized in Christ, have put on Christ, alleluia.

Postcommunion

    Renewed by the gift of our redemption, we beseech Thee, O Lord, that by this help to eternal salvation, true faith may ever increase. Through our Lord.

Commemoration of Sts. Cletus & Marcellinus:

Postcommunion

    Be appeased, O Lord, we beseech Thee; that Thy Church, nourished with this holy refreshment, and guided by wise direction, may receive both a growth in freedom and continue steadfast in soundness of religion. Through our Lord.

+ Taken from St. Andrew Daily Missal, by Dom Gaspar Lefebvre, O.S.B., Imprimi Potest 11-18-1945 P. Joannes Delacroix, O.S.B., Imprimatur 11-22-1945 Joseph Van Der Meersch