Brothers and sisters: Do you not know that a little yeast leavens all the dough?

Peter proceeded to speak and said: “You know what has happened all over Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John preached, how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power.

Brothers and sisters: If then you were raised with Christ, seek what is above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.

On the first day of the week, Mary of Magdala came to the tomb early in the morning, while it was still dark, and saw the stone removed from the tomb.

The Lord said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to me?

In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth, [the earth was a formless wasteland, and darkness covered the abyss, while a mighty wind swept over the waters.

Hear, O Israel, the commandments of life:/ listen, and know prudence!/ How is it, Israel,/ that you are in the land of your foes,/ grown old in a foreign land,/ defiled with the dead,/ accounted with those destined for the netherworld?/ You have forsaken the fountain of wisdom!/ Had you walked in the way of God,/ you would have dwelt in enduring peace./ Learn where prudence is,/ where strength, where understanding;/ that you may know also/ where are length of days, and life,/ where light of the eyes, and peace./ Who has found the place of wisdom,/ who has entered into her treasuries?

God put Abraham to the test.

Brothers and sisters: Are you unaware that we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

The One who has become your husband is your Maker;/ his name is the Lord of hosts;/ your redeemer is the Holy One of Israel,/ called God of all the earth./ The Lord calls you back,/ like a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit,/ a wife married in youth and then cast off,/ says your God./ For a brief moment I abandoned you,/ but with great tenderness I will take you back./ In an outburst of wrath, for a moment/ I hid my face from you;/ but with enduring love I take pity on you,/ says the Lord, your redeemer./ This is for me like the days of Noah,/ when I swore that the waters of Noah/ should never again deluge the earth;/ so I have sworn not to be angry with you,/ or to rebuke you./ Though the mountains leave their place/ and the hills be shaken,/ my love shall never leave you/ nor my covenant of peace be shaken,/ says the Lord, who has mercy on you./ O afflicted one, storm-battered and unconsoled,/ I lay your pavements in carnelians,/ and your foundations in sapphires;/ I will make your battlements of rubies,/ your gates of carbuncles,/ and all your walls of precious stones./ All your children shall be taught by the Lord,/ and great shall be the peace of your children./ In justice shall you be established,/ far from the fear of oppression,/ where destruction cannot come near you.