Invitatory
Antiphon
Alleluia. The Lord is risen indeed: come, let us adore Him. Alleluia.
Psalm 94 (95)
Come let us praise the Lord with joy: let us joyfully sing to God our saviour.
Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving; and make a joyful noise to him with psalms.
For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
For in his hand are all the ends of the earth: and the heights of the mountains are his.
For the sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.
Come let us adore and fall down: and weep before the Lord that made us.
For he is the Lord our God: and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand.
Today if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
Hymn (Easter Cycle)
The strife is o’er, the battle done;
Now is the Victor’s triumph won;
Now be the song of praise begun: Alleluia!
The powers of death have done their worst,
But Christ their legions hath dispersed:
Let shouts of holy joy outburst: Alleluia!
Psalmody
Antiphon 1
It is good to give praise to the Lord, alleluia.
Psalm 91 (92)
It is good to give praise to the Lord: and to sing to thy name, O most High.
To shew forth thy mercy in the morning, and thy truth in the night:
Upon an instrument of ten strings, upon the psaltery: with a canticle upon the harp.
For thou hast given me, O Lord, a delight in thy doings: and in the works of thy hands I shall rejoice.
The just shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow up like the cedar of Libanus.
They that are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of the house of our God.
Antiphon 2
I will give you a new heart, and put a new spirit within you, alleluia.
Canticle — Ezekiel 36:24–28
I will take you from among the nations, and will gather you together out of all the countries, and will bring you into your own land.
And I will pour upon you clean water, and you shall be cleansed from all your filthiness.
And I will give you a new heart, and put a new spirit within you:
And I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and will give you a heart of flesh.
And I will put my spirit in the midst of you: and I will cause you to walk in my commandments.
And you shall be my people, and I will be your God.
Antiphon 3
O Lord our Lord, how admirable is thy name in the whole earth, alleluia.
Psalm 8
O Lord our Lord, how admirable is thy name in the whole earth!
For thy magnificence is elevated above the heavens.
Out of the mouth of infants and of sucklings thou hast perfected praise.
What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him?
Thou hast made him a little less than the angels; thou hast crowned him with glory and honour.
And thou hast set him over the works of thy hands.
O Lord our Lord, how admirable is thy name in all the earth!
Short Reading — John 14:9 (Douay-Rheims)
Jesus saith to him: Have I been so long a time with you; and have you not known me? Philip, he that seeth me seeth the Father also.
Responsory
This is the day which the Lord hath made, alleluia.
Let us be glad and rejoice therein, alleluia.
Benedictus
Antiphon
He that seeth me seeth the Father also, alleluia.
Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; because he hath visited and wrought the redemption of his people:
And hath raised up an horn of salvation to us, in the house of David his servant.
As he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets, who are from the beginning.
Salvation from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us.
To perform mercy to our fathers, and to remember his holy testament.
The oath, which he swore to Abraham our father, that he would grant to us.
That being delivered from the hand of our enemies, we may serve him without fear.
In holiness and justice before him, all our days.
Intercessions
Christ is risen and reveals the Father to the world. Let us call upon Him:
That the Church may proclaim Christ not as a distant teacher, but as true God and true man—
Lord, hear our prayer.
That bishops and teachers, following St. Athanasius, may defend the truth with courage and clarity—
Lord, hear our prayer.
That those confused by many voices may recognize the one Voice of the Good Shepherd—
Lord, hear our prayer.
That our daily work may become a quiet witness to the living Christ—
Lord, hear our prayer.
That we who begin this day may walk in the light of the Resurrection—
Lord, hear our prayer.
Our Father
Our Father, who art in heaven...
Concluding Prayer
O God, who raised up Saint Athanasius as an outstanding champion of thy Son’s divinity, mercifully grant that, rejoicing in his teaching and his protection, we may never cease to grow in knowledge and love of thee. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
✧ Paradox of the Day
The man who demands to see God is answered by the God he has already seen.
✧ G.K. Chesterton
“The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.”
✧ Reflection (Chestertonian, 200–350 words)
Philip’s question is the most reasonable request ever made—and therefore one of the most comically mistaken. “Show us the Father,” he says, as though God were hiding behind the furniture of the universe like a shy host at His own banquet.
And Christ answers, not by unveiling some cosmic machinery, but by quietly pointing to Himself.
There is something in us that suspects God must be more complicated than Christ. We imagine that somewhere behind the carpenter’s hands and the human voice there must be a more properly divine arrangement—something less familiar, less near, less dangerously simple. But the whole revolution of Christianity is this: that God has not hidden Himself in abstraction, but revealed Himself in a face.
St. Athanasius understood that if this is not true, nothing is true. If Christ is only a messenger, then the message collapses into advice. But if Christ is God, then every word He speaks is not merely guidance but reality itself breaking into the world.
The modern man asks for proof; the ancient apostle asked for sight. Both are answered in the same way: not with a theory, but with a Person.
And that is the difficulty. For a theory can be postponed, debated, or politely ignored. A Person must be faced.
The Resurrection does not merely prove that Christ was right. It proves that Christ is present.
And so the strange comfort of the morning is this: we are not waiting for God to appear. We are learning, slowly and stubbornly, to recognize the One who already has.
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