Readings at Mass Today
12/4/2026
Second Sunday of Easter – Divine Mercy
Regina Caeli!
Regina caeli, laetare, alleluia.
Quia quem meruisti portare, alleluia.
Resurrexit sicut dixit, alleluia.
Ora pro nobis Deum, alleluia.
(Queen of Heaven, rejoice, alleluia.
For he, whom you did merit to bear, alleluia.
Has risen as he said, alleluia.
Pray for us to God, alleluia.)
V. Rejoice and be glad, O Virgin Mary, alleluia.
R. For the Lord is truly risen, alleluia.
Let us pray: O God, who gave joy to the world through the resurrection of thy Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, grant we beseech thee, that through the intercession of the Virgin Mary, his Mother, we may obtain the joys of everlasting life. Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.
The Regina Caeli is the Marian Antiphon for Eastertide. There are four such antiphons for the liturgical year. The Regina Caeli is the most joyful, and the shortest, of them. It joins Our Lady in giving thanks and praise to Almighty God for the glorious resurrection of her Son, and seeks her intercession. Its origins date back to the 12th century at least, although there is a story that in the late sixth century, in the reign of Pope Gregory the Great, the antiphon was miraculously sung by a choir of angels. There was rampant plague in Rome at the time and due to the intervention of the angelic choir it is said to have abated.
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