Quasimodogeniti Prpers and Lectionary

 Quasimodogeniti 19. April 2020

Introit (Psalm 116,3.8-9.12-13; 1. Peter 2,2) 

Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, Hallelujah, 

so that by it you may grow up to salvation, Hallelujah. 

The snares of death encompassed me; 

the pangs of the grave laid hold on me;

You have delivered my soul from death, 

my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling;

I will walk before the Lord 

in the land of the living.

What shall I render to the Lord 

for all His benefits to me?

I will lift up the cup of salvation 

and call on the Name of the Lord,

Glory be to the Father and to the Son

and to the Holy Spirit;

as it was in the beginning,

is now, and will be forever.  Amen.

Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, Hallelujah, 

so that by it you may grow up to salvation, Hallelujah. 

Collect of the Day 

O Almighty God, grant that we who have celebrated the Lord’s resurrection may by Your grace confess in our life and conversation that Jesus is Lord and God; through the same Jesus Christ, Your Son, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.  Amen. 

Isaiah 40,26-31 

²⁶Lift up your eyes on high and see: who created these? He who brings out their host by number, calling them all by name, by the greatness of His might, and because He is strong in power not one is missing. 

²⁷Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel: „My way is hidden from the Lord, and my right is disregarded by my God“? ²⁸Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the Everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; His understanding is unsearchable. ²⁹He gives power to the faint, and to Him who has no might He increases strength. ³⁰Even youths faint and are weary, and young men fall exhausted; ³¹but they who wait for the Lord renew their strength; they mount up with wings like eagles; they run and are not weary; they walk and do not faint.

P This is the Word of the Lord.

C Thanks be to God. 

Alleluia Verse

Alleluia! Alleluia. Christ is risen.! He is risen indeed. Alleluia!

1. Peter 1,3-9 

³Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to His great mercy, He has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, ⁴to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled and unfading, kept in heaven for you, ⁵who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. ⁶In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, ⁷so that the tested genuineness of your faith – more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire – may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. ⁸Though you have not seen Him, you love Him. Though you do not now see Him, you believe in Him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, ⁹obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your lives. 

P This is the Word of the Lord.

C Thanks be to God. 

John 20,19-31 

¹⁹On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus arrived and stood among them and said to them: „Peace be with you.“ ²⁰When He had said this, He showed them His hands and His side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. ²¹Jesus said to them again: „Peace be with you. As the Father has sent Me, even so I am sending you.“ ²²And when He had said this, He breathed on them and said to them: „Receive the Holy Spirit. ²³If you forgive the sins of anyone, they are forgiven; if you withhold forgiveness from anyone, it is withheld.“ 

²⁴Now Thomas, one of the Twelve, called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus arrived. ²⁵So the other disciples told him: „We have seen the Lord.“ But he said to them: „Unless I see in His hands the mark of the nails, and place my finger into the mark of the nails, and place my hand into His side, I will never believe.“ ²⁶Eight days later, His disciples were inside again, and Thomas was with them. Although the doors were locked, Jesus arrived and stood among them and said: „Peace be with you.“ ²⁷Then He said to Thomas: „Put your finger here, and see My hands; and put out your hand, and place it in My side. Do not disbelieve, but believe.“ ²⁸Thomas answered Him: „My Lord and my God!“ ²⁹Jesus said to him: „Have you believed because you have seen Me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.“ 

³⁰ Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; ³¹but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His Name.