Entrance Hymn:  LBW #151 “Jesus Christ Is Risen Today”

Prayer 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. Amen.

First Reading:

Isaiah 25:6–9

⁶On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples
           a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wine,
           of rich food full of marrow, of aged wine well refined.
⁷And he will swallow up on this mountain
           the covering that is cast over all peoples,
           the veil that is spread over all nations.
           ⁸He will swallow up death forever;
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.
⁹It will be said on that day,
           “Behold, 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.”

Exodus 15:2, 6, 13, 17–18; antiphon: v. 1

L: I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously;
C: the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.
L: The Lord is my strength and my song,
C: and he has become my salvation.
L: Your right hand, O Lord, glorious in power,
C: your right hand, O Lord, shatters the enemy.
L: You have led in your steadfast love the people whom you have redeemed;
C: you have guided them by your strength to your holy abode.
L: You will bring them in and plant them on your own mountain,
C: the place, O Lord, which you have made for your abode,
L: the sanctuary, O Lord, which your hands have established.
C: 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.
L: I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously;
C: the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.

Epistle:

1 Corinthians 15:1–11

¹Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, ²and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. ³For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, ⁴that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, ⁵and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. ⁶Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep. ⁷Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. ⁸Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me. ⁹For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. ¹⁰But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me. ¹¹Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.

Gospel:

Mark 16:1–8

¹When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. ²And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb. ³And they were saying to one another, “Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance of the tomb?” ⁴And looking up, they saw that the stone had been rolled back—it was very large. ⁵And entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe, and they were alarmed. ⁶And he said to them, “Do not be alarmed. You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has risen; he is not here. See the place where they laid him. ⁷But go, tell his disciples and Peter that he is going before you to Galilee. There you will see him, just as he told you.” ⁸And they went out and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had seized them, and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid.

Message Hymn:  LBW #143 “Now All the Vault of Heaven Resounds”

Closing Hymn:  LBW #352 “I Know that My Redeemer Lives!”