Léctio Epístolæ beáti Pauli Apóstoli ad Corínthios (1 Cor 15,51-57)
Fratres : Ecce, mystérium vobis dico : Omnes quidem resurgámus, sed non omnes immutábimur. In moménto, in ictu óculi, in novíssima tuba : canet enim tuba, et mórtui resúrgent incorrúpti : et nos immutábimur. Opórtet enim corruptíbile hoc induere incorruptiónem : et mortále hoc indúere immortalitátem. Cum autem mortále hoc indúerit immortalitátem, tunc fiet sermo, qui scriptus est : Absórpta est mors in victória. Ubi est, mors, victória tua ? Ubi est, mors, stímulus tuus ? Stímulus autem mortis peccátum est : virtus vero peccáti lex. Deo autem grátias, qui dedit nobis victóriam per Dóminum nostrum Iesum Christum.
Brethren: Behold, I tell you a mystery. We shall all indeed rise again: but we shall not all be changed. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall rise again incorruptible: and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption; and this mortal must put on immortality. And when this mortal hath put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting? Now the sting of death is sin: and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who hath given us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
