April 20, 2025 Easter Sunday

Welcome Father Eckhard Today’s Readings: Acts 10:34a, 37-43 | Col 3:1-4 | John 20:1-9

###The Exsultet:

The Proclamation of Easter

Exult, let them exult, the hosts of heaven, exult, let Angel ministers of God exult, let the trumpet of salvation sound aloud our mighty King’s triumph!

Be glad, let earth be glad, as glory floods her, ablaze with light from her eternal King, let all corners of the earth be glad, knowing an end to gloom and darkness.

Rejoice, let Mother Church also rejoice, arrayed with the lightning of his glory, let this holy building shake with joy, filled with the mighty voices of the peoples. […]

This is the night, when once you led our forebears, Israel’s children, from slavery in Egypt and made them pass dry-shod through the Red Sea.

This is the night that with a pillar of fire banished the darkness of sin.

This is the night that even now, throughout the world, sets Christian believers apart from worldly vices and from the gloom of sin, leading them to grace and joining them to his holy ones.

This is the night, when Christ broke the prison-bars of death and rose victorious from the underworld. […]

This is the night of which it is written: The night shall be as bright as day, dazzling is the night for me, and full of gladness.

The sanctifying power of this night dispels wickedness, washes faults away, restores innocence to the fallen, and joy to mourners, drives out hatred, fosters concord, and brings down the mighty. […]

Christ your Son, who, coming back from death’s domain, has shed his peaceful light on humanity, and lives and reigns for ever and ever.

Source of text: Shortened from the Easter “Exsultet”, via https://www.usccb.org/prayer-worship/liturgical-year/easter/easter-proclamation-exsultet Source of image: Koenig, Peter. Mary Meets Jesus After the Resurrection, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=58538 [retrieved April 19, 2025]. Original source: Peter Winfried (Canisius) Koenig, https://www.pwkoenig.co.uk/.

News

  • 20 April - Our Mass of the Resurrection on Easter Sunday starts at 11:00am! If you’d like to take the light of the Resurrection home, make sure to bring a candle to light it at the Easter candle. A number of small candles will also be provided for that purpose, albeit a very limited one.
  • 20 April - Easter Social Gathering: We invite you to join us in celebrating the Resurrection together as a community after Mass. Kindly consider helping with the set-up (as of 10:30) or clean-up, and bring some food to share with everyone if possible!
  • 21 April - At ICCH, there won’t be Mass in English on the Second Day of Easter. If you’re interested in finding a Mass on that holy day of obligation, please refer to the City Church: https://www.stadtkirche-heidelberg.de/gottesdienste/