First Reading

Beginning of the first letter of the apostle Saint John

1 John 1:1-4

Beloved: What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked upon and touched with our hands concerns the Word of life —

for the life was made visible; we have seen it and testify to it and proclaim to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was made visible to us —

what we have seen and heard we proclaim now to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; for our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ. We are writing this so that our joy may be complete.

Gospel

Reading from the holy Gospel according to Saint John 

John 20:2-9

On the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene ran to the disciple whom Jesus loved and the other disciple, Simon Peter, and told them, “They have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we don’t know where they put him.”

So Peter and the other disciple went out and came to the tomb. They both ran, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter and arrived at the tomb first; he bent down and saw the burial cloths there, but did not go in.

When Simon Peter arrived after him, he went into the tomb and saw the burial cloths there, and the cloth that had covered his head, not with the burial cloths but rolled up in a separate place. Then the other disciple also went in, the one who had arrived at the tomb first, and he saw and believed. For they did not yet understand the Scripture that he had to rise from the dead.