Traditional Latin Mass Gospel Readings

36 Now whilst they were speaking these things, Jesus stood in the midst of them, and saith to them: Peace be to you; it is I, fear not.
Dum autem haec loquuntur, stetit Jesus in medio eorum, et dicit eis : Pax vobis : ego sum, nolite timere.
 37 But they being troubled and frightened, supposed that they saw a spirit.
Conturbati vero et conterriti, existimabant se spiritum videre.
 38 And he said to them: Why are you troubled, and why do thoughts arise in your hearts?
Et dixit eis : Quid turbati estis, et cogitationes ascendunt in corda vestra?
 39 See my hands and feet, that it is I myself; handle, and see: for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as you see me to have.
videte manus meas, et pedes, quia ego ipse sum; palpate et videte, quia spiritus carnem et ossa non habet, sicut me videtis habere.
 40 And when he had said this, he shewed them his hands and feet.
Et cum hoc dixisset, ostendit eis manus et pedes.
 41 But while they yet believed not, and wondered for joy, he said: Have you any thing to eat?
Adhuc autem illis non credentibus, et mirantibus prae gaudio, dixit : Habetis hic aliquid quod manducetur?
 42 And they offered him a piece of a broiled fish, and a honeycomb.
At illi obtulerunt ei partem piscis assi et favum mellis.
 43 And when he had eaten before them, taking the remains, he gave to them.
Et cum manducasset coram eis, sumens reliquias dedit eis.
 44 And he said to them: These are the words which I spoke to you, while I was yet with you, that all things must needs be fulfilled, which are written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.
Et dixit ad eos : Haec sunt verba quae locutus sum ad vos cum adhuc essem vobiscum, quoniam necesse est impleri omnia quae scripta sunt in lege Moysi, et prophetis, et Psalmis de me.
 45 Then he opened their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures.
Tunc aperuit illis sensum ut intelligerent Scripturas,
 46 And he said to them: Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise again from the dead, the third day:
et dixit eis : Quoniam sic scriptum est, et sic oportebat Christum pati, et resurgere a mortuis tertia die :
 47 And that penance and remission of sins should be preached in his name, unto all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
et praedicari in nomine ejus poenitentiam, et remissionem peccatorum in omnes gentes, incipientibus ab Jerosolyma.

13 And behold, two of them went, the same day, to a town which was sixty furlongs from Jerusalem, named Emmaus.  14 And they talked together of all these things which had happened.  15 And it came to pass, that while they talked and reasoned with themselves, Jesus himself also drawing near, went with them.
 16 But their eyes were held, that they should not know him.  17 And he said to them: What are these discourses that you hold one with another as you walk, and are sad?  18 And the one of them, whose name was Cleophas, answering, said to him: Art thou only a stranger to Jerusalem, and hast not known the things that have been done there in these days?  19 To whom he said: What things? And they said: Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet, mighty in work and word before God and all the people;  20 And how our chief priests and princes delivered him to be condemned to death, and crucified him.
 21 But we hoped, that it was he that should have redeemed Israel: and now besides all this, today is the third day since these things were done.  22 Yea and certain women also of our company affrighted us, who before it was light, were at the sepulchre,  23 And not finding his body, came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, who say that he is alive.  24 And some of our people went to the sepulchre, and found it so as the women had said, but him they found not.  25 Then he said to them: O foolish, and slow of heart to believe in all things which the prophets have spoken.
 26 Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and so to enter into his glory?  27 And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded to them in all the scriptures, the things that were concerning him.  28 And they drew nigh to the town, whither they were going: and he made as though he would go farther.  29 But they constrained him; saying: Stay with us, because it is towards evening, and the day is now far spent. And he went in with them.  30 And it came to pass, whilst he was at table with them, he took bread, and blessed, and brake, and gave to them.
 31 And their eyes were opened, and they knew him: and he vanished out of their sight.  32 And they said one to the other: Was not our heart burning within us, whilst he spoke in this way, and opened to us the scriptures?  33 And rising up, the same hour, they went back to Jerusalem: and they found the eleven gathered together, and those that were staying with them,  34 Saying: The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon.  35 And they told what things were done in the way; and how they knew him in the breaking of the bread.

1 And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalen, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought sweet spices, that coming, they might anoint Jesus.
Et cum transisset sabbatum, Maria Magdalene, et Maria Jacobi, et Salome emerunt aromata ut venientes ungerent Jesum.
 2 And very early in the morning, the first day of the week, they come to the sepulchre, the sun being now risen.
Et valde mane una sabbatorum, veniunt ad monumentum, orto jam sole.
 3 And they said one to another: Who shall roll us back the stone from the door of the sepulchre?
Et dicebant ad invicem : Quis revolvet nobis lapidem ab ostio monumenti?
 4 And looking, they saw the stone rolled back. For it was very great.
Et respicientes viderunt revolutum lapidem. Erat quippe magnus valde.
 5 And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed with a white robe: and they were astonished.
Et introeuntes in monumentum viderunt juvenem sedentem in dextris, coopertum stola candida, et obstupuerunt.
 6 Who saith to them: Be not affrighted; you seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified: he is risen, he is not here, behold the place where they laid him.
Qui dicit illis : Nolite expavescere : Jesum quaeritis Nazarenum, crucifixum : surrexit, non est hic, ecce locus ubi posuerunt eum.
 7 But go, tell his disciples and Peter that he goeth before you into Galilee; there you shall see him, as he told you.
Sed ite, dicite discipulis ejus, et Petro, quia praecedit vos in Galilaeam : ibi eum videbitis, sicut dixit vobis.
[2] "The sun being now risen": They set out before it was light, to go to the sepulchre; but the sun was risen when they arrived there. Or, figuratively, the sun here spoken of is the sun of justice, Christ Jesus our Lord, who was risen before their coming.

Holy Saturday is liturgically a day of deepest mourning, a day which the Church spends at our Lord's sepulchre, meditating on His Sacred Passion and Death. There is no Mass; the sacred altar is bare.

The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ according to St John.