Praying the communion Antiphons Eastertide series: Introduction

 Praying the Communion Antiphon Series Eastertide

He is risen as He said. Alleluia.

Praying the Communion Antiphons of Eastertide

Introduction

Each day at Mass, just before we receive Holy Communion, the Church gives us a sentence. It is brief. It is scriptural. It is intentional.

Sometimes we may barely notice it. It may even sound like a garbled sound if we do not have the text in front of us or even like brown cows- a voice from one side of the church and another voice from the other not in unison.

This Eastertide, I would like to build on what we have experienced in the Praying Communion antiphons in Lent series. What does the Church offer us during Eastertide as Communion Antiphons and how can these antiphons deepen our faith in Jesus and the resurrection. How can we carry them within us each day?

They are not random verses. They are chosen words placed on our lips as we approach the altar. What we ponder shapes us. What we carry through the day settles into the heart.

And so, during this holy season, each day we will:

• Think about the words themselves — their meaning, their nuance, their echoes in Scripture.
• Allow them to question us in practical, everyday ways.
• Carry a short prayer drawn from the antiphon into the rest of the day.

Eastertide invites us  with the opportunity to rejoice and to be filled with awe like the women who were first told about the resurrection by the angel. We too can run and tell others about it.

Let us begin.