FEAST OF THE RESURRECTION OF OUR LORDEaster Day

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P In the name of the Father and of T the Son and of the Holy Ghost.C Amen.P Beloved in the Lord, on this most holy morning our Lord Jesus passed over from death to life. We

who are gathered together to celebrate His resurrection have mourned His death for our sins. Our sorrow is turned into joy. This is the Passover of our Lord in which, by hearing His Word and eating His Supper, we share in His victory over death.

P Alleluia! Christ is risen!C He is risen indeed! Alleluia!

LSB 457, Jesus Christ Is Risen Today

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INTROITHe is risen! Alle- | luia!* Why do you seek the living among the dead? Alle- | luia!Remember how he told you, Alle- | luia,* that the Son of Man must be crucified and on the third day rise. Alle- | luia!O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in | all the earth!* You have set your glory above the | heavens.

Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly | beings* and crowned him with glory and | honor.You have given him dominion over the works | of your hands;* you have put all things under | his feet.O | Lord, our Lord,* how majestic is your name in | all the earth!Glory be to the Father and | to the Son* and to the Holy | Spirit;as it was in the be- | ginning,* is now, and will be forever. | Amen.He is risen! Alle- | luia!* Why do you seek the living among the dead? Alle- | luia!Remember how he told you, Alle- | luia,* that the Son of Man must be crucified and on the third day rise. Alle- | luia!

Kyrie (186)

Gloria in Excelsis (187–189)

Salutation/Collect (189)

COLLECTP Almighty God the Father, through Your only-begotten Son, Jesus Christ, You have overcome death

and opened the gate of everlasting life to us. Grant that we, who celebrate with joy the day of our Lord’s resurrection, may be raised from the death of sin by Your life-giving Spirit; through Jesus Christ, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.

C Amen.

OLD TESTAMENT READING + Isaiah 25:6-96On this mountain the LORD of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wine, of rich food full of marrow, of aged wine well refined. 7And he will swallow up on this mountain the covering that is cast over all peoples, the veil that is spread over all nations. 8He will swallow up death forever; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the LORD has spoken. 9It will be said on that day, “Behold, this is our God; we have waited for him, that he might save us. This is the LORD; we have waited for him; let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation.”P This is the Word of the Lord.C Thanks be to God.

GRADUALThis is the day that the | Lord has made;* let us rejoice and be | glad in it.Oh give thanks to the Lord, for | he is good;* for his steadfast love endures for- | ever!Alleluia. Christ, our Passover lamb, has been | sacrificed.*

Let us therefore celebrate the festival with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. Alle- | luia.

EPISTLE + 1 Corinthians 15:1-111Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, 2and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. 3For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, 5and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. 6Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep. 7Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. 8Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me. 9For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me. 11Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.P This is the Word of the Lord.C Thanks be to God.

Verse, Alleluia, and Gospel (190-191)

VERSE Alleluia. Alle- | luia.*

Christ, our Passover, was sacri- | ficed for us.Let us keep the feast with the unleavened bread of sinceri | ty and truth.

Alleluia. Alle- | luia.Alleluia. Alleluia. Alleluia.

HOLY GOSPEL + St John 20:1–181Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. 2So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.” 3So Peter went out with the other disciple, and they were going toward the tomb. 4Both of them were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. 5And stooping to look in, he saw the linen cloths lying there, but he did not go in. 6Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying there, 7and the face cloth, which had been on Jesus’ head, not lying with the linen cloths but folded up in a place by itself. 8Then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed; 9for as yet they did not understand the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead. 10Then the disciples went back to their homes. 11But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb, and as she wept she stooped to look into the tomb. 12And she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and one at the feet. 13They said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.” 14Having said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, but she did not know that it was Jesus. 15Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?” Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.” 16Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned and said to him in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means Teacher). 17Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’” 18Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord”—and that he had said these things to her.

Nicene Creed (191)

TLH 207, Like the Golden Sun Ascending

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Offertory (“Create in Me”) (192–193)

Prayer of the Church

Lord’s Prayer (196)

Salutation, Benedicamus, and Benediction (201-202)

LSB 464, The Strife is O’er, the Battle Done

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