April 23rd : Responsorial PsalmPsalm 117(118):1,14-21 ©I will thank you, Lord, for you have given answer.or Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!

April 23rd :  Responsorial Psalm

Psalm 117(118):1,14-21 ©

I will thank you, Lord, for you have given answer.

or Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!

Give thanks to the Lord for he is good,

  for his love has no end.

The Lord is my strength and my song;

  he was my saviour.

There are shouts of joy and victory

  in the tents of the just.

I will thank you, Lord, for you have given answer.

or Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!

The Lord’s right hand has triumphed;

  his right hand raised me up.

I shall not die, I shall live

  and recount his deeds.

I was punished, I was punished by the Lord,

  but not doomed to die.

I will thank you, Lord, for you have given answer.

or Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!

Open to me the gates of holiness:

  I will enter and give thanks.

This is the Lord’s own gate

  where the just may enter.

I will thank you for you have answered

  and you are my saviour.

I will thank you, Lord, for you have given answer.

or Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!

Sequence 

Victimae Paschali Laudes

Christians, to the Paschal Victim

  offer sacrifice and praise.

The sheep are ransomed by the Lamb;

and Christ, the undefiled,

hath sinners to his Father reconciled.

Death with life contended:

  combat strangely ended!

Life’s own Champion, slain,

  yet lives to reign.

Tell us, Mary:

  say what thou didst see

  upon the way.

The tomb the Living did enclose;

I saw Christ’s glory as he rose!

The angels there attesting;

shroud with grave-clothes resting.

Christ, my hope, has risen:

he goes before you into Galilee.

That Christ is truly risen

  from the dead we know.

Victorious king, thy mercy show!

Gospel Acclamation Ps117:24

Alleluia, alleluia!

This day was made by the Lord:

we rejoice and are glad.

Alleluia!