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Office of Readings
Monday, May 11, 2026 • Easter, Week 6 — Monday
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 25A Prayer of Trust
Ant. This is the day the Lord has made; let us be glad and rejoice in it. Alleluia.
To you, O Lord, I have lifted up my soul. My God, I trust in you; let me not be confounded.
Let not my enemies laugh at me; for all those who endure you will not be confounded.
Let all who act iniquity without cause be confounded.
O Lord, show your ways to me, and teach me your paths.
Direct me in your truth and teach me; for you are the God of my salvation, and for you I have waited all day long.
Remember, O Lord, your compassion and your mercies, which have been from the beginning.
Do not remember the sins of my youth and my ignorances.
Remember me according to your mercy, for the sake of your goodness, O Lord.
The Lord is sweet and righteous; therefore he will give a law to those who are sinning on the way.
He will direct the mild in judgment; he will teach the meek his ways.
All the ways of the Lord are mercy and truth for those who seek his covenant and his testimonies.
For the sake of your name, O Lord, you will pardon my sin, for it is great.
Who is the man who fears the Lord? He has appointed him a law in the way he has chosen.
His soul will dwell in good things, and his seed will inherit the earth.
The Lord is a firmament to those who fear him, and his covenant will be revealed to them.
My eyes are always toward the Lord; for he will pluck my feet from the snare.
Look upon me and have mercy on me; for I am alone and poor.
The troubles of my heart have been multiplied; deliver me from my necessities.
See my humility and my labor, and release all my offenses.
Consider my enemies, for they have been multiplied and they have hated me with an unjust hatred.
Guard my soul and rescue me; let me not be confounded, for I have hoped in you.
The innocent and the upright have adhered to me, because I have waited for you.
Deliver Israel, O God, from all his tribulations.
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 26The Lord Is My Light
Ant. Christ our Passover has been sacrificed; let us therefore celebrate the feast. Alleluia.
The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom will I fear? The Lord is the protector of my life; from whom will I tremble?
While the wicked approach me to eat my flesh: those who trouble me, my enemies, they themselves have been weakened and have fallen.
If armies stand against me, my heart will not fear. If battle rises up against me, in this I will hope.
One thing have I asked of the Lord, this will I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life.
That I may see the delight of the Lord and may visit his temple.
For he has hidden me in his tabernacle in the day of evils; he has protected me in the hidden place of his tabernacle.
He has exalted me on a rock, and now he has lifted up my head above my enemies.
I have gone around and I have immolated in his tabernacle a sacrifice of jubilation; I will sing and play a psalm to the Lord.
Hear, O Lord, my voice with which I have cried out; have mercy on me and hear me.
My heart has said to you: "My face has sought you." Your face, O Lord, I will seek.
Do not turn your face away from me; do not decline in anger from your servant.
Be my helper; do not forsake me and do not despise me, O God my Savior.
For my father and my mother have forsaken me, but the Lord has taken me up.
O Lord, appoint me a law in your way and guide me along the right path, because of my enemies.
Do not hand me over to the souls of those who trouble me; for unjust witnesses have risen up against me, and iniquity has lied to itself.
I believe that I will see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living.
Wait for the Lord, act manfully, and let your heart be strengthened, and wait for the Lord.
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 27Confidence in God
Ant. Death is swallowed up in victory; thanks be to God who gives us the victory. Alleluia.
To you, O Lord, I will cry out; O my God, do not be silent before me. Lest you be silent before me, and I become like those who descend into the pit.
Hear, O Lord, the voice of my supplication, as I pray to you, as I lift up my hands toward your holy temple.
Do not draw me away together with sinners and with those who work iniquity; who speak peace with their neighbors, but evils are in their hearts.
Give them according to their works and according to the wickedness of their inventions.
According to the works of their hands, give to them; repay them what they deserve.
For they have not understood the works of the Lord and the works of his hands.
You will destroy them and will not build them up.
Blessed is the Lord, for he has heard the voice of my supplication.
The Lord is my helper and my protector; in him my heart has hoped, and I have been helped.
And my flesh has flourished again; and with my will I will confess to him.
The Lord is the strength of his people and the protector of the salvation of his Christ.
Save your people, O Lord, and bless your inheritance, and govern them and exalt them forever.
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
1 Peter 1:3-4
By his great mercy he has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you.
Second Reading: Patristic or Hagiographic
Christ Our Passover
Understand, therefore, beloved, how it is new and old, eternal and temporary, perishable and imperishable, mortal and immortal, this mystery of the Pascha. It is old as regards the law, but new as regards the Word; temporary as regards the type, eternal because of the grace; perishable because of the slaughter of the sheep, imperishable because of the life of the Lord; mortal because of his burial in the earth, immortal because of his resurrection from the dead. The law is old, but the Word is new. The type is temporary, but the grace is eternal. The sheep is perishable, but the Lord is imperishable. He was led as a sheep; he was not a sheep. He was silent as a lamb; he was not a lamb. The type has passed away; the reality has come. The lamb gives place to God, and the sheep gives place to a man, and the man is Christ, who fills all things. This is he who delivered us from slavery to freedom, from darkness to light, from death to life, from tyranny to eternal royalty, and made us a new priesthood and a chosen people forever.
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
O God of life, the church rejoices in the resurrection of your Son. May the scriptures and the words of the fathers we read today deepen our Easter faith and joy; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Dismissal
Let us praise the Lord.
And give him thanks.