April 8, 2023. Gospel Matt 28:1-7. First Solemn Mass of Easter Sunday.

Traditional Latin Mass Gospel Readings · Apr 8, 2023 · 1m

Holy Saturday is liturgically a day of deepest mourning, a day which the Church spends at our Lord's sepulchre, meditating on His Sacred Passion and Death. There is no Mass; the sacred altar is bare.

First solemn mass of Easter Sunday.

1. And in the end of the sabbath, when it began to dawn towards the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalen and the other Mary, to see the sepulchre.

Vespere autem sabbati, quae lucescit in prima sabbati, venit Maria Magdalene, et altera Maria, videre sepulchrum.

2 And behold there was a great earthquake. For an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and…