Fiftieth Sunday.
THE RESURRECTION.
FIRST READING.
"Now is Christ risen from the dead."—1 Cor. 16:20.
As it began to dawn.
THE holy women waited all the Sabbath day in sorrow; and our Lord Jesus lay in His grave. But, on the night after, He rose up from His grave, and came forth again, for He is alive for evermore. There was a great earthquake, and an angel came from heaven, and rolled away the stone from the door of the cave, and sat upon it; and for fear of him the keepers did shake, and were as dead men.