Almighty God, you have knit together your elect in one communion and fellowship in the mystical body of your Son Christ our Lord: Give us grace so to follow your blessed saints in all virtuous and godly living, that we may come to those ineffable joys that you have prepared for those who truly love you; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, in glory everlasting. Amen.
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ISAIAH 25:6-9
On this mountain the LORD of hosts will make all
peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged
wines, of rich food filled with marrow, of well-aged
wines strained clear. And he will destroy on this
mountain the shroud that is cast over all peoples,
the covering that is spread over all nations; he will
swallow up death forever. Then the LORD God will
wipe away the tears from all faces, and the disgrace
of his people he will take away from all the earth, for
the LORD has spoken. It will be said on that day,
“See, this is our God; we have waited for him, so that
he might save us. This is the LORD for whom we
have waited; let us be glad and rejoice in his
salvation.”
PSALM 24
1 The earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it, *
the world and all who dwell therein.
2 For it is he who founded it upon the seas *
and made it firm upon the rivers of the deep.
3 “Who can ascend the hill of the Lord? *
and who can stand in his holy place?”
4 “Those who have clean hands and a pure heart, *
who have not pledged themselves to falsehood,
nor sworn by what is a fraud.
5 They shall receive a blessing from the Lord *
and a just reward from the God of their salvation.”
6 Such is the generation of those who seek him, *
of those who seek your face, O God of Jacob.
7 Lift up your heads, O gates; lift them high,
O everlasting doors; *
and the King of glory shall come in.
8 “Who is this King of glory?” *
“The Lord, strong and mighty, the Lord,
mighty in battle.”
9 Lift up your heads, O gates; lift them high,
O everlasting doors; *
and the King of glory shall come in.
10 “Who is he, this King of glory?” *
“The Lord of hosts, he is the King of glory.”
REVELATION 21:1-6A
I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first
heaven and the first earth had passed away, and
the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, the
new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from
God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying,
“See, the home of God is among mortals. He will
dwell with them; they will be his peoples, and God
himself will be with them; he will wipe every tear
from their eyes. Death will be no more; mourning
and crying and pain will be no more, for the first
things have passed away.” And the one who was
seated on the throne said, “See, I am making all
things new.” Also he said, “Write this, for these
words are trustworthy and true.” Then he said to
me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the
beginning and the end.”
JOHN 11:32-44
When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she
knelt at his feet and said to him, “Lord, if you had been
here, my brother would not have died.” When Jesus
saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her
also weeping, he was greatly disturbed in spirit and
deeply moved. He said, “Where have you laid him?”
They said to him, “Lord, come and see.” Jesus began
to weep. So the Jews said, “See how he loved him!”
But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the
eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?”
Then Jesus, again greatly disturbed, came to the tomb.
It was a cave, and a stone was lying against it. Jesus
said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the
dead man, said to him, “Lord, already there is a stench
because he has been dead four days.” Jesus said to
her, “Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would
see the glory of God?” So they took away the stone.
And Jesus looked upward and said, “Father, I thank
you for having heard me. I knew that you always hear
me, but I have said this for the sake of the crowd
standing here, so that they may believe that you sent
me.” When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice,
“Lazarus, come out!” The dead man came out, his
hands and feet bound with strips of cloth, and his face
wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unbind him,
and let him go.”
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