opened unto us the gate of everlasting life; We humbly beseech thee that, as by thy special grace preventing us thou dost put into our minds good desires, so by thy continual help we may bring the same to good effect; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost ever, one God, world without end. Amen.

V. The Lord be with you.
R. And with thy spirit.

V. Let us bless the Lord.
R. Thanks be to God.

V. May the souls of the faithful, through the mercy of God rest in peace.

R. Amen.

AT MASS

The Introit. Eccles. 15.

HE shall give him the water of wisdom to drink, alleluia: he shall be stayed upon her and shall not be moved, alleluia: and she shall exalt him for ever. Alleluia, alleluia.

Ps. 105. O give thanks unto the Lord, and call upon his Name: tell the people what things he hath done. V. Glory be to the Father, &c. She shall give.

The Collect.

LMIGHTY God, who through thine only-begotten Son Jesus Christ hast overcome death, and opened unto us the gate of everlasting life; We humbly beseech thee that, as by thy special grace preventing us thou dost put into our minds good desires, so by thy continual help we may bring the same to good effect; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost ever, one God, world without end. Amen.

ME

For the Epistle. Acts 13. 26.

EN and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent. For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him. And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain. And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre. But God raised him from the dead: and he was seen many days of them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his

witnesses unto the people. And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers. God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have ĺ begotten thee. And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David. Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption: but he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption. Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins: and by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses. Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets : Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto

you.

The Gradual. Ps. 118.

Thath made: We will rejoice and

HIS is the day which the Lord

be glad in it.

V. Ps. 107. Let them give thanks whom the Lord hath redeemed: and delivered from the hand of the enemy; and gathered them out of the lands.

Alleluia, alleluia. V. The Lord is risen from the sepulchre, who for our sakes did hang upon the tree.

The Sequence. Victimae Paschali laudes.
HRISTIANS, to the Paschal
Victim

C

Offer your thankful praises!

A Lamb the sheep redeemeth :
Christ, who only is sinless,
Reconcileth sinners to the Father;
Death and life have contended
In that combat stupendous:

The Prince of Life, who died, reigns immortal.

Speak Mary, declaring

What thou sawest wayfaring :

'The Tomb of Christ, who is living, The glory of Jesu's Resurrection :

Bright Angels attesting,

The shroud and napkin resting.
Yea, Christ my hope is arisen:
To Galilee he goes before you,'

Happy they who hear the witness,
Mary's word believing

Above the tales of Jewry deceiving.

Christ indeed from death is risen, our new life obtaining.

Have mercy, victor King, ever reigning! Alleluia.

The Holy Gospel. St. Luke 24. 36.

ESUS himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you. But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit. And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled ? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts? Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have. And when he had thus spoken, he showed them his hands and his feet. And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here any meat? And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb. And he took it, and did eat before them. And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me. Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures, and said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the