The collect for today, Monday in Easter Week, from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer:

Almighty God, who through thine only-begotten Son Jesus Christ hast overcome death, and opened unto us the gate of everlasting life; We humbly beseech thee, that, as by thy special grace preventing us thou dost put into our minds good desires, so by thy continual help we may bring the same to good effect; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen.

For the Epistle: Acts 10:34-43
The Gospel: St Luke 24:13-35

Click for larger viewArtwork: Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret, Christ and the Disciples at Emmaus, 1896-97. Oil on canvas, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.