St. Anthony of Padua School
Morning Prayer– Eastertide
Leader: O God, come to my assistance.
All: O Lord, make haste to help me.
Leader: Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
All: As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world with out end, Amen.
Leader: This is the sixth week of Easter. Let us continue to remember with joy that Jesus rose from the dead on Easter Sunday in order to give his servants victory over death.
All: Christ, our Redeemer, has risen from the tomb: let us sing a hymn to the Lord, our God. Alleluia.
Leader: Bless the Lord, all his works,
praise and exalt him for ever
Bless the Lord, you heavens;
all his angels, bless the Lord.
All: Christ, our Redeemer, has risen from the tomb: let us sing a hymn to the Lord, our God. Alleluia.
Leader: “I am the resurrection and the life,” says the Lord; “he who believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and whoever lives and believes in me shall never die.”
(Pause)
All: Almighty ever-living God, lead us to a share in the joys of heaven, so that the humble flock may reach where the brave Shepherd has gone before. Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
Leader: Let us praise the Lord.
All: Thanks be to God.
Jesus saying farewell to his eleven remaining disciples, from the Maesta by Duccio, 1308–1311
gospel for the week:
Gospel, John 13:31-33, 34-35
31 When he had gone, Jesus said: Now has the Son of man been glorified, and in him God has been glorified.
32 If God has been glorified in him, God will in turn glorify him in himself, and will glorify him very soon.
33 Little children, I shall be with you only a little longer. You will look for me, and, as I told the Jews, where I am going, you cannot come.
34 I give you a new commandment: love one another; you must love one another just as I have loved you.
35 It is by your love for one another, that everyone will recognise you as my disciples.