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General Intercessions for Sunday Mass
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Sunday, April 5, 2026
EASTER SUNDAY OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE LORD
✚Solemnity
Liturgical Color: White
General Intercessions for Sunday Mass for EASTER SUNDAY OF THE LORD'S RESURRECTION
Option 1
1.For the Church throughout the world, that she may proclaim Christ's Resurrection with one voice this Easter Sunday, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
2.That leaders of nations may hear in the Resurrection the ultimate word spoken over all earthly power — that no empire, no death, no injustice has the final say — and govern accordingly, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
3.For all who were baptised and received into the Church at last night's Easter Vigil, that the grace poured upon them may take deep root and bear abundant fruit throughout their lives, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
4.That we may walk today in the company of Mary Magdalene — weeping turned to wonder, grief to recognition — as the Risen Christ calls each of us by name, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
5.That our parish may go forth from this Eucharist as witnesses, carrying the news of the Resurrection into our homes, workplaces, and streets throughout this Easter season, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
Optional:For our sick, bereaved, and all who have asked for our prayers.Lord, hear our prayer.
For N. and all the faithful departed, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
Option 2
1.For the Church, that the truth of the empty tomb may be her living foundation of hope and courage, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
2.That those who still live in the darkness of poverty, war, and oppression may receive this day the promise the Resurrection brings: that darkness is not the end, and the last word belongs to God, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
3.For those for whom belief in resurrection feels impossible — whose grief or pain has closed off hope — that the Risen Christ may find them this day where they are and open a door they thought was sealed, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
4.That we may run to the empty tomb with the urgency of Peter and John, eager and expectant — and find not absence but the beginning of something beyond all imagining, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
5.That our parish may keep the whole of this Easter Octave as eight days of genuine celebration, letting the joy of the Resurrection saturate every gathering and every prayer, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
Optional:For a renewed spirit of Easter joy in our parish and in our homes.Lord, hear our prayer.
For N. and all the faithful departed, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
Variations if Optional Commemoration is not celebrated
Option 1
1.For the Church, that Easter's Alleluia may ring out from hearts that know what darkness costs and resurrection means, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
2.That leaders of every nation may acknowledge before God that all authority is borrowed — that the One who was crucified and raised holds lordship over all human power, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
3.For those who have come home to the Church at Easter after years away, that what they find today may give them a reason to stay — a community alive with the Risen Christ, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
4.That we may recognise the Risen Christ in the breaking of bread today, as the disciples recognised Him at Emmaus, and carry that recognition into the week ahead, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
5.That our parish may not contain the Easter joy within these walls but send it out with every person who leaves today, so that Easter is announced wherever we go, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
Optional:For our sick, bereaved, and all who have asked for our prayers.Lord, hear our prayer.
For N. and all the faithful departed, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
Option 2
1.For the Church, that the Risen Christ's call to go and tell may drive her mission in every season, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
2.That those who are in exile, prison, or persecution and cannot freely gather to celebrate today may know that the Risen Christ is present with them as surely as He was in the locked room with the disciples, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
3.For families divided by estrangement who have come together today, that this Easter gathering may be the beginning of a healing that only the Risen Christ can bring, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
4.That we may let the Risen Christ transform our grief as He transformed Mary Magdalene's — not by erasing it but by filling it with His presence — and walk in that freedom, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
5.That our parish community may live at Easter pace all through the year ahead, not only today — carrying the Resurrection as our deepest certainty into every difficulty we face, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
Optional:For a holy and joyful Easter season for all the faithful.Lord, hear our prayer.
For N. and all the faithful departed, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.
About Our Sunday Mass Intercessions
Our general intercessions for Sunday Mass are specially crafted by Giuseppe Njualem, a seminarian at St. Peter's Seminary in London, Ontario. Each set reflects the solemnity appropriate for the principal weekly celebration of the Catholic Church.
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