God our Father, by raising Christ your Son you conquered the power of death and opened for us the way to eternal life. Let our celebration today raise us up and renew our lives. Grant this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. (NOM, Opening Prayer)

    The Traditional Collect reinforces the teaching of the Resurrection, by going more in-depth to its fruits than the Novus Ordo does. The Traditional Rite talks about how through this event, may the desires of our hearts, which God put there to begin with, may we be enabled to attain them. This makes the Resurrection something very practical in the Christian's life. While the Novus Ordo vaguely covers this by asking that our lives be renewed, it doesn't necessarily indicate how those lives will be renewed. Because of the Resurrection, our desires are renewed, as we ask that God grant us what he has given to us. We see again the precision of the Traditional Prayer. We now move onto the Lectionary, which has, as always, some rather curious omissions in the Novus Ordo.

Lesson from the Epistle of Blessed Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians. Brethren, purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new paste, as you are unleavened: for Christ our Pasch is sacrificed, Therefore let us feast, not with the old leaven, nor feast, not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. (TM, Epistle, Corinthians 5: 7-8)

Peter proceeded to speak and said: "You know what has happened all over Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John preached, how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power. He went about doing good and healing all those oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. We are witnesses of all that he did both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They put him to death by hanging him on a tree. This man God raised on the third day and granted that he be visible, not to all the people, but to us, the witnesses chosen by God in advance, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. He commissioned us to preach to the people and testify that he is the one appointed by God as judge of the living and the dead. To him all the prophets bear witness, that everyone who believes in him will receive forgiveness of sins through his name." (NOM, First Reading, Acts 10:34, 37-43, verse 40 may be omitted)

    It seems that even the Novus Ordo obsession with the Resurrection does not trump the desire to remove any instance of supernatural activity in human history. The Novus Ordo may omit the very thing they are celebrating, the Resurrection. Pray tell, what is Easter if the Resurrection is not even mentioned? Verse 40 is absolutely central to Peter's message. It specifically mentions the fact that God raised Christ on the Third day from the dead. Now many will say that because it mentions being raised from the dead later in the passage, we must note a few things. One, the act of Resurrection was a supernatural act of God in verse 40. Second, it talks about rising on the Third day, fulfilling Christ's very own prophesy. Many modernists deny that Christ actually spoke these words, or that the Resurrection was actually one of body, just spirit. Therefore, to omit the idea that he was raised on the Third Day has profound theological implications. It leaves the fact this may be covered by your catechism classes, yet anyone who sends children to these classes, or has attended RCIA, can sympathize with me when I say I don't place much faith in them to accurately teach the faith. This is something even the majority who attend the Novus Ordo cannot deny.

Brothers and sisters: If then you were raised with Christ, seek what is above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Think of what is above, not of what is on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ your life appears, then you too will appear with him in glory. (Second Reading, Colossians 3:1-4, verse one may be omitted)
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Brothers and sisters: Do you not know that a little yeast leavens all the dough? Clear out the old yeast, so that you may become a fresh batch of dough, inasmuch as you are unleavened. For our paschal lamb, Christ, has been sacrificed. Therefore, let us celebrate the feast, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. (1st Corinthians, 5:6-8, verse 7)

    There are numerous implications for negative theology even in the Resurrection. For while this glorious event has indeed occurred, it is not a guarantee the fruits shall be given to us, unless we endure to the end. Yet this entails our sinfulness. This is why Paul tells us in Colossians to seek that which is above if we are raised with Christ. This point cannot be overemphasized enough, which is why Paul states it twice in these four verses. If we are then raised with Christ talks about turning our back on the old nature, our baptism baptizes us into Christ's death, yet also we are created anew, because of Christ's death and Resurrection, as it changes our souls. Yet we cannot return to the Old Way, or else that great gift is squandered. So rather than just removing a "senseless repetition" the Novus Ordo removed an admonition to avoid the life we once led before coming to Christ Jesus.

    This is confirmed when we see what is optional in the "optional reading." Paul picks up on the same theme that a little bit of bad can destroy a lot of good. Since Christ has been sacrificed, we must clear out those old sinful desires, and walk in the light of Christ, having the fruits of his Passion and Resurrection applied to us. One does not fully experience the glory of the new creation of Christ Jesus until they completely rid themselves of the Old way. While this will not happen entirely on Earth, we are still called to live a life of holiness. The Novus Ordo's omission of this verse is something that we cannot be silent upon. Both Services go through several antiphons and hymns praising Christ, so I shall next focus on the Gospels.

At that time, Mary Magdalen, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome brought sweet spices, that coming they might anoint Jesus. And very early in the morning, the first day of the week, they came to the sepulchre, the sun being now risen. And they said one to another: Who shall roll us back the stone from the door of the sepulchre? And looking back, they saw the stone rolled back. For it was very great. And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed with a white robe, and they were astonished. Who saith to them. Be not affrighted; ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified: He is risen. He is not here behold the place where they laid Him, But go, tell His disciples, and Peter, that He goeth before you into Galilee there you shall see Him, as He told you. (TM, Gospel, Mark 16: 1-7)

On the first day of the week, Mary of Magdala came to the tomb early in the morning, while it was still dark, and saw the stone removed from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and told them, "They have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we don't know where they put him." So Peter and the other disciple went out and came to the tomb. They both ran, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter and arrived at the tomb first; he bent down and saw the burial cloths there, but did not go in. When Simon Peter arrived after him, he went into the tomb and saw the burial cloths there, and the cloth that had covered his head, not with the burial cloths but rolled up in a separate place. Then the other disciple also went in, the one who had arrived at the tomb first, and he saw and believed. For they did not yet understand the Scripture that he had to rise from the dead. (NOM Gospel, John 20:1-9, verse 9 may be omitted)

    Once again, the very event we are celebrating is optional in the Novus Ordo, because it smacks of something of the supernatural. If you don't read the last verse, well, a number of things could've happened. Christ's body could have been taken by Christ's disciples or loyalists (one of the most prominent theories amongst modernists). Yet since we know He had to rise from the dead, in accordance with the Scripture, not only is it the fulfillment of the Prophesy, but a miracle at the same time, worked by Christ, in a sense, the ultimate miracle. This demonstrated Christ's true power, and the fact Satan, though he thought he wad won, had in reality made the biggest error he had ever made, and in the end, that error undoes anything he has established in this world. Yet since the theological implications of this verse entail the supernatural, fulfillment of prophesy, a implicit acknowledgment of evil(since it is conquered by the fulfilling of Christ's prophesy), one is not very surprised that this in turn ended up being optional in the Novus Ordo. For all their harping on the Resurrection, we must protest that it is oddly curious that these omissions should take place. The Novus Ordo then takes it's recommitment of it's baptismal promises, something very noble and right to do, it is just a shame that the significance of baptism is so downplayed in the Novus Ordo, becoming a mere ritual initiation to many nowadays. Furthermore, the fruits of baptism become obscured when one can go out of his way to mention the Resurrection, since that implies the supernatural. Baptism itself is supernatural.

The earth trembled and was still when God arose in judgment. Alleluia. (TM, Offertory)

Look favorably, we beseech Thee O Lord, upon the prayers of Thy people, and upon the sacred Victim we offer up: and may those mercies of Thine, of which these Paschal mysteries are the first-fruits, avail us by Thy grace to the winning of life everlasting. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one God Forever and ever. Amen. (TM, Secret)

Lord, with Easter joy we offer you the sacrifice by which your Church is reborn and nourished through Christ our Lord. Amen. (NOM, Prayer Over the Gifts)

    Once again, the Novus Ordo doesn't talk about the cause of the sacrifice, but simply the effects. The Church is renewed and nourished because God's wrath is appeased. The Traditional Rite explicitly mentions the fact the victim is offered to God, that God accept it favorably (which he can only do if his wrath is appeased, hence a reference to propitiation), and also talks about how the resurrection is the first-fruits of God's infinite mercies which bring us to eternal life. The Traditional Rite, precise as always, connects the Resurrection to not only our nourishment, but our final salvation, eternal life, and our own Resurrection, in which the final fruits of Christ's resurrection are fully applied to us, as they were applied to the Blessed Virgin Mary, when she was assumed into Heaven. The prefaces, quite rarely, are the same, so we shall continue into the end of the Mass.