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Office of Readings
Tuesday, May 5, 2026 • Easter, Week 5 — Tuesday
Opening
O God, come to my assistance.
Lord, make haste to help me.
Glory 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.
Invitatory
Ant. Alleluia! The Lord is risen. Come, let us adore him. Alleluia!
Come, let us exult in the Lord; let us shout with joy to God our salvation.
Let us come before his face with praise and exult in him with psalms.
For the Lord is a great God and a great king above all gods.
For the Lord does not cast off his people; for in his hand are all the ends of the earth.
And the heights of the mountains belong to him.
For the sea is his, and he made it; and his hands formed the dry land.
Come, let us adore and fall down before God; let us weep before the Lord who 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 will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
As in the provocation, according to the day of temptation in the wilderness,
where your fathers tempted me; they tried me and saw my works.
For forty years I was close to this generation, and I said: "They always err in heart."
And these people have not known my ways, so I swore in my wrath that they will not enter into my rest.
Glory 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.
as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen.
Ant. Alleluia! The Lord is risen. Come, let us adore him. Alleluia!
Hymn
The Day of Resurrection
The day of resurrection!
Earth, tell it out abroad;
the Passover of gladness,
the Passover of God.
Earth, tell it out abroad;
the Passover of gladness,
the Passover of God.
Psalmody
Psalm 7Plea for Divine Justice
Ant. This is the day the Lord has made; let us be glad and rejoice in it. Alleluia.
O Lord my God, in you I have hoped; save me from all who pursue me, and deliver me.
Lest at any time he seize my soul like a lion, while there is no one to redeem me or to save me.
O Lord my God, if I have done this thing, if there is iniquity in my hands,
if I have repaid with evils those who repaid me good, let me deservedly fall empty before my enemies.
Let the enemy pursue my soul and seize it, and trample my life into the earth, and bring down my glory into the dust.
Rise up, O Lord, in your wrath, and be exalted at the borders of my enemies.
And arise, O Lord my God, in the precept that you have commanded, and the congregation of people will surround you.
And because of this, return on high; the Lord judges the peoples.
Judge me, O Lord, according to my justice and according to my innocence in me.
The wickedness of sinners will be brought to nothing, and you will direct the just; the searcher of hearts and reins is God.
My help is from God, who saves the upright of heart.
God is a just judge, strong and patient; is he angry every day?
Unless you will have been converted, he will brandish his sword; he has bent his bow and made it ready.
And in it he has prepared the instruments of death; he has made ready his arrows for those who burn.
Behold, he has been in labor with injustice; he has conceived toil and given birth to iniquity.
He has opened a pit and dug it out, and he has fallen into the hole he made.
His toil will be turned back onto his own head, and his iniquity will descend onto his crown.
I will give thanks to the Lord according to his justice, and I will sing to the name of the Lord Most High.
Glory 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.
as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen.
Ant. This is the day the Lord has made; let us be glad and rejoice in it. Alleluia.
Psalm 8The Glory of God and the Dignity of Man
Ant. Christ our Passover has been sacrificed; let us therefore celebrate the feast. Alleluia.
O Lord, our Lord, how admirable is your name in all the earth!
For your magnificence has been elevated above the heavens.
Out of the mouth of infants and of sucklings, you have perfected praise, because of your enemies, so that you may destroy the enemy and the defender.
For I will see your heavens, the works of your fingers: the moon and the stars, which you have founded.
What is man, that you are mindful of him? Or the son of man, that you visit him?
You have made him a little less than the angels; you have crowned him with glory and honor.
And you have set him over the works of your hands.
You have subjected all things under his feet: all sheep and oxen, moreover, even the beasts of the field,
the birds of the air and the fish of the sea, who pass through the paths of the sea.
O Lord, our Lord, how admirable is your name throughout all the earth!
Glory 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.
as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen.
Ant. Christ our Passover has been sacrificed; let us therefore celebrate the feast. Alleluia.
Psalm 9Praise for God's Justice
Ant. Death is swallowed up in victory; thanks be to God who gives us the victory. Alleluia.
I will confess to you, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will narrate all your wonders.
I will be glad and rejoice in you; I will sing to your name, O Most High.
For my enemy is turned back; they will be weakened and perish from before your face.
For you have maintained my judgment and my cause; you sat on the throne, judging justly.
You have rebuked the Gentiles and the impious has perished; you have blotted out their name for ever and ever.
The swords of the enemy have failed to the end, and you have destroyed their cities; their memory has perished with a resounding noise.
And the Lord remains for eternity; he has prepared his throne for judgment.
And he will judge the world with equity; he will judge the peoples with justice.
And the Lord has become a refuge for the poor: a helper in tribulation.
And let those who know your name hope in you; for you have not forsaken those who seek you, O Lord.
Sing psalms to the Lord who dwells in Zion; declare his pursuits among the Gentiles.
For he remembers them, seeking the blood of the poor; he has not forgotten the cry of the poor.
Have mercy on me, O Lord; see my humiliation from my enemies.
You who exalt me from the gates of death, so that I may declare all your praises at the gates of the daughter of Zion.
I will rejoice in your salvation; the Gentiles have been stuck in the destruction they have made.
Their foot has been snared in the very trap they have hidden.
The Lord will be known by executing judgments; the sinner has been caught in the works of his own hands.
The wicked will be turned toward hell, and all the nations that have forgotten God.
For the poor will not be forgotten in the end; the patience of the poor will not perish forever.
Rise up, O Lord; do not let man be strengthened; let the Gentiles be judged in your sight.
Appoint a lawgiver over them, O Lord, that the Gentiles may know themselves to be only human.
Glory 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.
as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen.
Ant. Death is swallowed up in victory; thanks be to God who gives us the victory. Alleluia.
First Reading: Scripture
Acts 2:32
This Jesus God raised up, and of that all of us are witnesses.
Second Reading: Patristic or Hagiographic
The Easter Invitation
If any man be devout and loves God, let him enjoy this fair and radiant triumphal feast. If any man be a wise servant, let him rejoicing enter into the joy of his Lord. If any have labored long in fasting, let him now receive his recompense. If any have wrought from the first hour, let him today receive his just reward. If any have come at the third hour, let him with thankfulness keep the feast. If any have arrived at the sixth hour, let him have no misgivings; because he shall in no wise be deprived therefor. If any have delayed until the ninth hour, let him draw near, fearing nothing. And if any have tarried even until the eleventh hour, let him, also, be not alarmed at his tardiness; for the Lord, who is jealous of his honor, will accept the last even as the first. He gives rest unto him who comes at the eleventh hour, even as unto him who has wrought from the first hour. And he shows mercy upon the last, and cares for the first; and to the one he gives, and upon the other he bestows gifts. For the Lord receives the acts of service, and is well pleased with the intention, and honors the deed, and praises the offering. Wherefore, enter you all into the joy of your Lord; and receive your reward, both the first, and likewise the second.
Responsory
V. This is the day that the Lord has made. Alleluia.
R. Let us rejoice and be glad in it. Alleluia.
V. Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good;
R. his love endures forever. Alleluia.
Concluding Prayer
Risen Lord, you opened the scriptures to the disciples on the road to Emmaus. Open the scriptures to us also, that our hearts may burn within us as we hear your word; who lives and reigns with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen.
Dismissal
Let us praise the Lord.
And give him thanks.