GOSPEL READING
Reader: Alleluia! Christ is risen!
All: Christ is risen indeed! Alleluia!
Mark 16:9-20
Reader: This is the Holy Gospel according to Mark, the 16th chapter.
All: Glory to you, O Lord!
9 Now after Jesus rose early on the first day of the week, he
appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven
demons. 10 She went out and told those who had been with him, while
they were mourning and weeping. 11 But when they heard that he was
alive and had been seen by her, they would not believe it.
12 After this he appeared in another form to two of them, as they
were walking into the country. 13 And they went back and told the rest,
but they did not believe them.
14 Later he appeared to the eleven themselves as they were sitting
at the table, and he upbraided them for their lack of faith and
stubbornness, because they had not believed those who saw him after he
had risen. 15 And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the
good news to the whole creation. 16 The one who believes and is baptized
will be saved, but the one who does not believe will be
condemned. 17 And these signs will accompany those who believe: by
using my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new
tongues; 18 they will pick up snakes, and if they drink any deadly thing, it
will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will
recover.”
19 So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up
into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God. 20 And they went out
and proclaimed the good news everywhere, while the Lord worked with
them and confirmed the message by the signs that accompanied it.
Reader: This is the Gospel of the Lord.
All: Praise to you, O Christ!