The Readings for Easter Week

If you wish to follow the readings for Monday to Wednesday of Easter Week, those readings are listed below. Be of Good cheer. Christ is Risen…..He is risen Indeed!

EASTER EVENING / MONDAY

(17/18 April 2022)

Exodus 15:1–18 or Daniel 12:1c–3

Acts 10:34–43 or 1 Corinthians 5:6b–8

Luke 24:13–35 (36–49)

The Passover Lamb Is Known in the Breaking of the Bread

The celebration of Easter is a never-ending feast because “Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed” (1 Cor. 5:7). Therefore, let us “sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously” (Ex. 15:1). He is our strength and our song because He has become our salvation. “They put him to death by hanging him on a tree, but God raised him on the third day” (Acts 10:39–40). His chosen witnesses, “who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead” (Acts 10:41), now preach “forgiveness of sins through his name” (Acts 10:43). By this preaching, Jesus draws near and leads us home. He opens the Scriptures to us, and He opens our minds to understand “the things concerning himself” (Luke 24:27). He opens our eyes to recognize His wounds and to know Him “in the breaking of the bread” (Luke 24:35). He pours out the Spirit of His Father upon us, so that we shall be delivered and finally awakened from the dust of the earth “to everlasting life” (Dan. 12:2).

EASTER TUESDAY

(19 April 2022)

Daniel 3:8–28

Acts 13:26–33

Luke 24:36–49

Repentance and Forgiveness of Sins Are Preached in the Name of the Risen Lord Jesus

Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego trusted in the Lord their God, and in such faith they “set aside the king’s command, and yielded up their bodies rather than serve and worship any god except their own God” (Dan. 3:28). And when they were cast “into the burning fiery furnace,” the Lord was with them to preserve their bodies and life against all harm (Dan. 3:23–27). Thus did they come out of the fire as a type of the resurrection of Christ Jesus, who trusted His Father and went to His death in fulfillment of “the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms.” No less so is it written, “that repentance for the forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name” (Luke 24:44–47). For “what God promised to the fathers, this he has fulfilled” now also for us, by raising Jesus from the dead. So does Christ Jesus send His ministers with “the message of this salvation” (Acts 13:26, 32–33). They are “his hands and his feet” in the world, bearing the promised Spirit from His Father and bestowing His peace upon us (Luke 24:36, 40, 49).

EASTER WEDNESDAY

(20 April 2022)

Acts 3:13–15, 17–19

Colossians 3:1–7 or 1 Corinthians 11:23–26

John 21:1–14

The Crucified and Risen Lord Jesus Feeds His Disciples and Grants Them Life with God

The Lord our God has fulfilled His promises by handing over Christ Jesus to the suffering and death of His cross, and by raising Him from the dead (Acts 3:15, 18). As He has thus “glorified his servant Jesus,” He now calls you to repentance, “that your sins may be blotted out” through faith in Him (Acts 3:13, 19). So did Jesus reveal Himself “to the disciples after he was raised from the dead” (John 21:14), thereby calling them to repentance and restoring their faith and life in Him. Recalling earlier signs of His glory, He granted them a miraculous catch of fish and then fed them a meal of bread and fish that He had prepared for them (John 21:6, 9, 12–13). The same Lord Jesus continues to feed His Church through the ministry of His servants; for what they have “received from the Lord,” His body given and His blood poured out, they also deliver to His disciples in remembrance of Him (1 Cor. 11:23–24). Therefore, set your mind on “Christ who is your life,” and “seek the things that are above” within His Holy Sacraments (Col. 3:1–4).