Resurrection of the Lord, Easter Evening A
Ai Khawng
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Easter Evening
**the tag or landmark is wrong, should be entry different and unique from "Easter Day**
OT: R Isa 25.6-9 vs L Exo 15.1-18 (or Dan 12.1c-3) R is about that on this mountain (Zion) Yhwh Sebaoth will make a feast and wipe away all tears (showing what restoration Christ inaugurated will end in one day). L is Moses’ song of praise (Dan speaks of those who sleep will awake some to everlasting life, some to everlasting contempt)
Epistle: 1Co 5.6b-8 versus Act 10.34-43 (with L’s secondary this same 1Co 5 reading). R speaks of us cleansing out the old leaven (malice evil) that we may be a new unleavened lump and sacrifice by partaking of Christ the paschal lamb. L’s primary
Gospel 355, 356, 365: Luk 24.13-49 mostly the same, 36-49 is optional for L and so we need to consider this, perhaps it’s just fine to cut it out. In Aland’s Synopsis of the Four Gospels, that’s where he ends his section, at verse 35. No, I wouldn’t cut it, because the last part gives context to the Emmaus Road men, that a) they told the disciples, b) Jesus appears to them and (most importantly) c) gives the Great Commission (along with the tease that the Spirit was about to come). All very important.
The Passover Lamb of God Is Known in the Breaking of the Bread
The celebration of Easter is a never-ending feast because “Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed” (1 Cor. 5:7). “Let us therefore celebrate the festival” (1 Cor. 5:8), and let us “sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously” (Ex. 15:1). He is our strength and our song because He has become our salvation. “They put him to death by hanging him on a tree, but God raised him on the third day” (Acts 10:39–40). His chosen witnesses, “who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead” (Acts 10:41), now preach “forgiveness of sins through his name” (Acts 10:43). By this preaching, Jesus draws near and leads us to His holy abode. He opens the Scriptures to us, and He opens our minds to understand “the things concerning himself” (Luke 24:27). He opens our eyes to recognize His wounds and to know Him “in the breaking of the bread” (Luke 24:35). At His table, He pours out the Spirit of His Father upon us, so that we shall be delivered; we shall be awakened from the dust of the earth, not to shame and everlasting contempt, but “to everlasting life” (Dan. 12:2).
Hymn of the Day: 463 Christ the Lord is risen today
Liturgy:
Introit
Exodus 15:2a, 6, 13, 17–18; antiphon: v. 1b
I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously;
the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.
The Lord is my strength and my song,
and he has become my salvation.
Your right hand, O Lord, glorious in power,
your right hand, O Lord, shatters the enemy.
You have led in your steadfast love the people whom you have redeemed;
you have guided them by your strength to your holy abode.
You will bring them in and plant them on your own mountain,
the place, O Lord, which you have made for your abode,
the sanctuary, O Lord, which your hands have established.
The Lord will reign forever and ever.
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.
I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously;
the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.
Collect of the Day
O God, for our redemption You gave Your only-begotten Son to the death of the cross and by His glorious resurrection delivered us from the power of the enemy. Grant that all our sin may be drowned through daily repentance and that day by day we may arise to live before You in righteousness and purity forever; through Jesus Christ, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.
Collect of the Day
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.
Gradual
adapt. from Matthew 28:7; Hebrews 2:7; Psalm 8:6
Christ has risen from the dead.
[God the Father] has crowned him with glory and honor,
He has given him dominion over the works of his hands;
he has put all things under his feet.
Verse
2 Timothy 1:10b
Alleluia. [Christ Jesus] abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. Alleluia.
Antiphon
Psa 16.10 "For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, among the dead, or allow your holy one to rot in the grave."
For thou dost not give me up to Sheol, or let thy godly one see the Pit.
Isa 25.6-9 In Jerusalem, Yahweh Tsabaoth will spread a wonder feast for all the people of the world, with wine and choice meat. There he will remove the cloud of gloom, the shadow of death that hangs over all the earth. He will swallow up death forever! Yahweh Adonai will wipe away all tears. This is the Lord, in whom we trusted, let us rejoice in the salvation that he brings!
On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of wine on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wine on the lees well refined. And he will destroy on this mountain the covering that is cast over all peoples, the veil that is spread over all nations. He will swallow up death for ever, 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. It will be said on that day, “Lo, 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.”
Dan 12.1c-3 LCMS only At that time Michael, the great prince will arise...and there shall be a time of trouble/anguish, such as has never been since nations first came into existence.
“At that time shall arise Michael, the great prince who has charge of your people. And there shall be a time of trouble, such as never has been since there was a nation till that time; but at that time your people shall be delivered, every one whose name shall be found written in the book. And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the firmament; and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever.
this is read on the last week of common time before Christ the King Sunday in Year B - I think that is where it belongs, right before the Advent season where the second coming and judgment are front and center thematically (early Advent that is).
Psa 114 "When the Israelites escaped from Egypt, the land of Judah became God's sanctuary and Israel his kingdom, the Red Sea saw them coming and hurried out of their way...the mountains skipped like rams...tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord...he turned the rock into a pool of water, a spring of water flowed from solid rock."
When Israel went forth from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language, Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion. The sea looked and fled, Jordan turned back. The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs. What ails you, O sea, that you flee? O Jordan, that you turn back? O mountains, that you skip like rams? O hills, like lambs? Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob, who turns the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of water.
1Co 5.6b-8
Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our paschal lamb, has been sacrificed. Let us, therefore, celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
"Get rid of the old yeast...Christ our Passover Lamb, has been sacrifice for us so let us celebrate the festival, not with the old bread of wickedness and evil but with the new bread of sincerity and truth."
Luk 24.13-49
That very day two of them were going to a village named Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, and talking with each other about all these things that had happened. While they were talking and discussing together, Jesus himself drew near and went with them. But their eyes were kept from recognizing him. And he said to them, “What is this conversation which you are holding with each other as you walk?” And they stood still, looking sad. Then one of them, named Cleopas, answered him, “Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?” And he said to them, “What things?” And they said to him, “Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people, and how our chief priests and rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him. But we had hoped that he was the one to redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since this happened. Moreover, some women of our company amazed us. They were at the tomb early in the morning and did not find his body; and they came back saying that they had even seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive. Some of those who were with us went to the tomb, and found it just as the women had said; but him they did not see.” And he said to them, “O foolish men, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?” And beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. So they drew near to the village to which they were going. He appeared to be going further, but they constrained him, saying, “Stay with us, for it is toward evening and the day is now far spent.” So he went in to stay with them. When he was at table with them, he took the bread and blessed, and broke it, and gave it to them. And their eyes were opened and they recognized him; and he vanished out of their sight. They said to each other, “Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road, while he opened to us the scriptures?” And they rose that same hour and returned to Jerusalem; and they found the eleven gathered together and those who were with them, who said, “The Lord has risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!” Then they told what had happened on the road, and how he was known to them in the breaking of the bread. As they were saying this, Jesus himself stood among them, and said to them, “Peace to You.” But they were startled and frightened, and supposed that they saw a spirit. And he said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do questionings rise in your hearts? See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself; handle me, and see; for a spirit has not flesh and bones as you see that I have.” And when he had said this he showed them his hands and his feet.And while they still disbelieved for joy, and wondered, he said to them, “Have you anything here to eat?” They gave him a piece of broiled fish, and he took it and ate before them. Then he said to them, “These are my words which I spoke to you, while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled.” Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures, and said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be preached in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things. And behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you; but stay in the city, until you are clothed with power from on high.”
The Two Disciples on the Road to Emmaus