March 30, 2024
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Service of Light
Responsorial 1: Psalm 104
R: Lord, send out your spirit and renew the face of the earth.
Responsorial 2: Exodus 15
Note: The Second Reading will be proclaimed in Spanish; English text is below. (Ex 14:15—15:1)
The LORD said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to me?
Tell the Israelites to go forward.
And you, lift up your staff and, with hand outstretched over the sea,
split the sea in two,
that the Israelites may pass through it on dry land.
But I will make the Egyptians so obstinate
that they will go in after them.
Then I will receive glory through Pharaoh and all his army,
his chariots and charioteers.
The Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD,
when I receive glory through Pharaoh
and his chariots and charioteers.”
The angel of God, who had been leading Israel’s camp,
now moved and went around behind them.
The column of cloud also, leaving the front,
took up its place behind them,
so that it came between the camp of the Egyptians
and that of Israel.
But the cloud now became dark, and thus the night passed
without the rival camps coming any closer together
all night long.
Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea,
and the LORD swept the sea
with a strong east wind throughout the night
and so turned it into dry land.
When the water was thus divided,
the Israelites marched into the midst of the sea on dry land,
with the water like a wall to their right and to their left.
The Egyptians followed in pursuit;
all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots and charioteers went after them
right into the midst of the sea.
In the night watch just before dawn
the LORD cast through the column of the fiery cloud
upon the Egyptian force a glance that threw it into a panic;
and he so clogged their chariot wheels
that they could hardly drive.
With that the Egyptians sounded the retreat before Israel,
because the LORD was fighting for them against the Egyptians.
Then the LORD told Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea,
that the water may flow back upon the Egyptians,
upon their chariots and their charioteers.”
So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea,
and at dawn the sea flowed back to its normal depth.
The Egyptians were fleeing head on toward the sea,
when the LORD hurled them into its midst.
As the water flowed back,
it covered the chariots and the charioteers of Pharaoh’s whole army
which had followed the Israelites into the sea.
Not a single one of them escaped.
But the Israelites had marched on dry land
through the midst of the sea,
with the water like a wall to their right and to their left.
Thus the LORD saved Israel on that day
from the power of the Egyptians.
When Israel saw the Egyptians lying dead on the seashore
and beheld the great power that the LORD
had shown against the Egyptians,
they feared the LORD and believed in him and in his servant Moses.
Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the LORD:
I will sing to the LORD, for he is gloriously triumphant;
horse and chariot he has cast into the sea.
R: Let us sing to the Lord; he has covered himself in glory.
Cantemos al Senor, sublime es su victoria.
Responsorial 3: Isaiah 12
R: You will draw water joyfully from the springs of salvation.
Sacaran agua con gozo de la fuente de la salvation.
Responsorial 4: Psalm 42
Note: The Fourth Reading will be proclaimed in Spanish; English text is below. (Ez 36:16-17a, 18-28)
The word of the LORD came to me, saying:
Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their land,
they defiled it by their conduct and deeds.
Therefore I poured out my fury upon them
because of the blood that they poured out on the ground,
and because they defiled it with idols.
I scattered them among the nations,
dispersing them over foreign lands;
according to their conduct and deeds I judged them.
But when they came among the nations wherever they came,
they served to profane my holy name,
because it was said of them: “These are the people of the LORD,
yet they had to leave their land.”
So I have relented because of my holy name
which the house of Israel profaned
among the nations where they came.
Therefore say to the house of Israel: Thus says the Lord GOD:
Not for your sakes do I act, house of Israel,
but for the sake of my holy name,
which you profaned among the nations to which you came.
I will prove the holiness of my great name, profaned among the nations,
in whose midst you have profaned it.
Thus the nations shall know that I am the LORD, says the Lord GOD,
when in their sight I prove my holiness through you.
For I will take you away from among the nations,
gather you from all the foreign lands,
and bring you back to your own land.
I will sprinkle clean water upon you
to cleanse you from all your impurities,
and from all your idols I will cleanse you.
I will give you a new heart and place a new spirit within you,
taking from your bodies your stony hearts
and giving you natural hearts.
I will put my spirit within you and make you live by my statutes,
careful to observe my decrees.
You shall live in the land I gave your fathers;
you shall be my people, and I will be your God.
R: Like a deer that longs for running streams my soul longs for you, my God.
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Baptismal Liturgy: Litany of the Saints
Blessing of Water:
Springs of water bless the Lord, praise and exalt him above all forever.
Sprinkling Rite: Easter Song (Handbells)
Clothing with Baptismal Garment:
You have put on Christ, in him you have been baptized. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.
Prayers of the Faithful:
Lord, hear our prayer;
Deus, exaudi nos;
Senor escuchanos.
Preparation Hymn : Crown Him with Many Crowns (Gather 489)
Crown him with many crowns,
The Lamb upon his throne;
Hark! how the heav’nly anthem drowns
All music but its own.
Awake, my soul, and sing
Of him who set us free,
And hail him as your heav’nly King
Through all eternity.
Crown him the Lord of life,
Who triumphed o’er the grave,
And rose victorious in the strife
For those he came to save.
His glories now we sing,
Who died and rose on high,
Who died, eternal life to bring,
And lives that death may die.
Crown him the Lord of love,
Behold his hands and side,
Rich wounds yet visible above
In beauty glorified.
No angel in the sky
Can fully bear that sight,
But downward bends his burning eye
At mysteries so bright.
Crown him the Lord of peace,
Whose pow’r a scepter sways
From pole to pole, that wars may cease,
Absorbed in prayer and praise.
His reign shall know no end,
And round his pierced feet
Fair flow’rs of Paradise extend
Their fragrance ever sweet.
Crown him the Lord of years,
The risen Lord sublime,
Creator of the rolling spheres,
The Master of all time.
All hail, Redeemer, hail!
For you have died for me;
Your praise and glory shall not fail
Throughout eternity.
Text: Revelation 19:12; St. 1, 3-5, Matthew Bridges, 1800-1894; st. 2, Godfrey Thring, 1823-1903
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Communion Hymn: Resucitó (Gather 443)
Resucitó, resucitó, resucitó, aleluya.
Aleluya, aleluya, aleluya, resucitó.
La muerte ¿dónde está la muerte?
¿Dónde está mi muerte?
¿Dónde su victoria?
Gracias sean dadas al Padre
que nos pasó a su reino
donde se vive de amor.
Alegría, alegría hermanos,
que si hoy nos queremos
es que resucitó.
Si con Él morimos, con Él vivimos,
con Él cantamos. ¡Aleluya!
And death now, vanished is the fear now,
banished are my tears now,
death has passed away.
The kingdom, praise to God, the kingdom!
Raised up to the kingdom,
we shall live in love.
Our gladness, blessful in our gladness,
this will be our gladness,
that he is alive.
With him then, die and live with him then,
rise and sing our hymn then,
sing alleluia.
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Communion Hymn: To Jesus Christ, Our Sovereign King (Gather 492)
To Jesus Christ, our sov’reign King,
Who is the world’s salvation,
All praise and homage do we bring
And thanks and adoration.
Christ Jesus, Victor!
Christ Jesus, Ruler!
Christ Jesus, Lord and Redeemer!
Your reign extend, O King benign,
To ev’ry land and nation;
For in your Kingdom, Lord divine,
Alone we find salvation.
To you, and to your church, great King,
We pledge our heart’s oblation;
Until before your throne we sing
In endless jubilation.
Text: Martin B. Hellrigel, 1891-1981, alt., © 1941, Irene C. Mueller
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Concluding Hymn: Jesus Christ is Risen Today (Gather 457)
Jesus Christ is ris’n today, Alleluia!
Our triumphant holy day, Alleluia!
Who did once upon the cross, Alleluia!
Suffer to redeem our loss. Alleluia!
Hymns of praise then let us sing, Alleluia!
Unto Christ, our heav’nly King, Alleluia!
Who endured the cross and grave, Alleluia!
Sinners to redeem and save. Alleluia!
But the pains which he endured, Alleluia!
Our salvation have procured; Alleluia!
Now above the sky he’s King, Alleluia!
Where the angels ever sing. Alleluia!
Sing we to our God above, Alleluia!
Praise eternal as his love; Alleluia!
Praise him, now his might confess, Alleluia!
Father, Son, and Spirit blest. Alleluia!
Text: St. 1, Surrexit Christus hodie, Latin, 14th C.; para. in Lyra Davidica, 1708, alt.; st. 2, 3, The Compleat Psalmodist, c.1750, alt.; st. 4, Charles Wesley, 1707-1788
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