NEW TESTAMENT (Second Reading)

A Reading from the Letter of St. Paul to the Romans

Brothers and Sisters:

Are you unaware that we 

     who were baptized into Christ Jesus 

     were baptized into his death?

We were indeed buried with him 

     through baptism into death, 

     so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead 

     by the glory of the Father, 

     we too might live in newness of life.

If, then, we have died with Christ, 

     we believe that we shall also live with him.

We know that Christ, 

     raised from the dead, dies no more; 

     death no longer has power over him.  

The Word of the Lord