Post‑Easter scripture set
Today’s post‑Easter liturgical readings were posted as the Word of the Day and list Acts 4:23–31, Psalm 2:1–9, and John 3:1–8 as the scripture set for April 13 in multiple devotional roundups ( ). Other prayer resources for the Easter season and the Third Sunday of Easter were published with reflections and suggested prayers ( ).
Catholic devotional sites posted the April 13, 2026 scripture set for the Monday after Easter Week as Acts 4:23–31, Psalm 2:1–9, and John 3:1–8. (ucatholic.com) The uCatholic roundup, published April 13, prints the full three-reading sequence and places John 3:1–8 at the center of the day’s Gospel, with Jesus telling Nicodemus that no one can enter the kingdom of God without being “born” of water and Spirit. (ucatholic.com) That pairing follows a common Easter-season pattern: Acts supplies the early church story after the Resurrection, the Psalm answers it in prayer, and the Gospel returns to Jesus’ teaching. On April 13, Acts 4:23–31 recounts the community praying for boldness after Peter and John are released, and Psalm 2 echoes opposition from rulers and nations. (ucatholic.com) The calendar matters because April 13, 2026 fell one day after Easter Sunday, which landed on April 12 in the Roman Rite this year. That makes the reading set part of the church’s first weekday cycle after Easter, when liturgy shifts from Passion narratives to Resurrection preaching and the life of the apostles. (timeanddate.com; usccb.org) Other worship planners were already looking ahead to the next major Sunday in the season. A Liturgy site post dated April 14, 2026 published collects, Eucharistic prayer options, and commentary for the Third Sunday of Easter 2026, tying the week’s daily readings to broader Easter worship preparation. (liturgy.co.nz) That April 14 resource also points readers to “50 Days of Easter” material and traces one of the Sunday prayers back through the Gelasian Sacramentary, the Sarum Missal, the 1962 Roman Missal, and the post-Vatican Two Roman Missal. The post presents the collect as a reworking by Bosco Peters and includes historical notes on how the prayer moved within the calendar. (liturgy.co.nz) In the April 13 reading set itself, the three texts share one theme more than a single event: public resistance answered by prayer and spiritual renewal. Acts describes believers asking for courage, Psalm 2 frames earthly power as temporary, and John 3 turns the focus to inward rebirth through the Spirit. (ucatholic.com) The immediate next step for readers is simple and scheduled: daily Easter weekday readings continue through the Octave, while parishes and prayer sites begin preparing Sunday liturgies later in the same week. (usccb.org; liturgy.co.nz)
