Invitatory
Antiphon: Come, let us worship Christ, the Son of God, who redeemed us by his blood.
Morning Prayer
O Lord, I have heard your renown,
and feared, O Lord, your work.
In the course of the years revive it,
in the course of the years make it known;
in your wrath remember compassion!
God comes from Teman,
the Holy One from Mount Paran.
Covered are the heavens with his glory,
and with his praise the earth is filled.
His splendor spreads like the light;
rays shine forth from beside him,
where his power is concealed.
You come forth to save your people,
to save your anointed one
You tread the sea with your steeds
amid the churning of the deep waters.
I hear, and my body trembles;
at the sound, my lips quiver.
Decay invades my bones,
my legs tremble beneath me.
I await the day of distress
that will come upon the people who attack us.
For though the fig tree blossom not
nor fruit be on the vines,
Though the yield of the olive fail
and the terraces produce no nourishment,
Though the flocks disappear from the fold
and there be no herd in the stalls,
Yet will I rejoice in the Lord
and exult in my saving God.
God, my Lord, is my strength; READING
In place of the responsory, the following is said:
INTERCESSIONS For our sake, our Redeemer suffered death and was buried, and rose again. With heartfelt love let us adore him, and pray: Christ our teacher, for our sake you were obedient even to accepting death. Our Father... HYMN When I survey the wondrous cross Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast, See from his head, his hands, his feet Were all the realm of nature mine,
he makes my feet swift as those of hinds
and enables me to go upon the heights.
Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit
As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Antiphon: Jesus Christ loved us, and poured out his own blood for us to wash away our sins.
Antiphon: We worship your cross, O Lord, and we praise and glorify your holy resurrection, for the wood of the cross has brought joy to the world.
Psalm 147:12-20
Lauda, Jerusalem
Antiphon: We worship your cross, O Lord, and we praise and glorify your holy resurrection, for the wood of the cross has brought joy to the world.
Zion praise your God!
he has blessed the children within you.
he feeds you with finest wheat.
and swiftly runs his command.
he scatters hoar-frost like ashes.
The waters are frozen at his touch;
at the breath of his mouth the waters flow.
to Israel his laws and decrees.
he has not taught them his decrees.
Isaiah 52:13-15
he shall be exalted and lifted up,
and shall be very high.
Just as there were many who were astonished at him
—so marred was his appearance, beyond human semblance,
and his form beyond that of mortals—
so he shall startle many nations;
kings shall shut their mouths because of him;
for that which had not been told them they shall see,
and that which they had not heard they shall contemplate.”
For our sake Christ was obedient, accepting even death, death on a cross.
BENEDICTUS (Canticle of Zechariah)
Antiphon
Over his head they hung their accusation: Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews.
Lord, have mercy on us.
- teach us to obey the Father's will in all things.(R.)
Christ our life, by your death on the cross you destroyed the power of evil and death,
- may we die with you to rise with you in glory. (R.)
Christ our King, you became an outcast among us, a worm and no man,
- teach us the humility by which you saved the world. (R.)
Christ our salvation, you gave yourself up to death out of love for us,
- help us to show your love to one another. (R.)
Christ our Savior, on the cross you embraced all time with your outstretched arms,
- unite God's scattered children in your kingdom of salvation. (R.)
PRAYER
Father, look with love upon your people, the love which the Lord Jesus Christ showed us when he delivered himself to evil men and suffered the agony of the cross, for he lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
Daytime Prayer
At one of these hours, the following three psalms are said, as below:
Psalm 40:2-14, 17-18
Psalm 54:1-6,8-9
Psalm 88
For the other hours, the complimentary psalmody is used: Psalm 120, 121, 122 for Midmorning (Terce); Psalm 123, 124, 125 for Midday (Sext); Psalm 126, 127, 128 for Midafternoon (Nones).
HYMN
O sacred Head, now wounded, with grief and shame weighed down,
Now scornfully surrounded with thorns, Thine only crown;
How pale Thou art with anguish, with sore abuse and scorn!
How does that visage languish, which once was bright as morn!
What Thou, my Lord, hast suffered, was all for sinners' gain;
Mine, mine was the transgression, but Thine the deadly pain.
Lo, here I fall, my Savior! 'Tis I deserve Thy place;
Look on me with Thy favor, vouchsafe to me Thy grace.
O God, make speed to save us.
O Lord, make haste to help us
Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit
As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, unto the ages of ages. Amen
PSALMODY
Psalm 44:2-14,17-18
Deus, auribus
our fathers have told us the story
of the things you did in their days,
you yourself, in days long ago.
to let them spread you laid peoples low.
no arm of their own brought them victory.
It was your right hand, your arm
and the light of your face; for you loved them.
who granted victories to Jacob.
in your name we trampled down our aggressors.
nor yet was I saved by my sword:
it was you who put our foes to shame.
and we praised your name without ceasing.
you no longer go forth with our armies.
and our enemies plunder us at will.
and scatter us among the nations.
and make no profit by the sale.
the laughing stock of all who are near.
at the sight of the foe and avenger.
though we had not been FALSE to your covenant,
Psalm 54:1-6,8-9
Deus, in nomine
by your power, uphold my cause.
listen to the words of my mouth.
ruthless men seek my life.
They have no regard for God.
The Lord upholds my life.
and praise your name for it is good:
and my eyes have seen the downfall of my foes.
Psalm 88
Domine, Deus
I cry at night before you.
O turn your ear to my cry.
my life is on the brink of the grave.
I have reached the end of my strength,
like the slain lying in their graves,
like those you remember no more,
cut off, as they are, from your hand.
in places that are dark, in the depths.
I am drowned beneath your waves.
and made me hateful in their sight.
Imprisoned, I cannot escape;
I call to you, Lord, all the day long;
to your I stretch out my hands.
Will the shades stand and praise you?
or your faithfulness among the dead?
or your justice in the land of oblivion?
in the morning my prayer comes before you.
Why do you hide your face?
I have borne your trials; I am numb.
your terrors have utterly destroyed me.
they assail me all together.
my one companion is darkness.
TERCE
Reading
He grew up like a sapling before him,
like a shoot from the parched earth;
There was in him no stately bearing to make us look at him,
nor appearance that would attract us to him.
He was spurned and avoided by men,
a man of suffering, accustomed to infirmity,
One of those from whom men hide their faces,
spurned, and we held him in no esteem. - Isaiah 53:2-3
Responsory
e worship you, O Christ and we praise you,
- because by your holy Cross, you have redeemed the world.
SEXT
Antiphon: From noon until three o'clock, there was darkness over the whole world.
Reading
Yet it was our infirmities that he bore,
our sufferings that he endured,
While we thought of him as stricken,
as one smitten by God and afflicted.
But he was pierced for our offenses,
crushed for our sins,
Upon him was the chastisement that makes us whole,
by his stripes we were healed. - Isaiah 53:4-5
Responsory
Lord, remember me
- when you come into your kingdom.
NONES
At three o'clock, Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Reading
We had all gone astray like sheep,
each following his own way;
But the Lord laid upon him
the guilt of us all.
Though he was harshly treated, he submitted
and opened not his mouth;
Like a lamb led to the slaughter
or a sheep before the shearers,
he was silent and opened not his mouth. - Isaiah 53:6-7
Responsory
He has plunged me into darkness
- like the dead, long forgotten.
PRAYER
Father, look with love upon your people, the love which the Lord Jesus Christ showed us when he delivered himself to evil men and suffered the agony of the cross, for he lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
May the life-giving cross
be the source of all our joy and peace. Amen.
Evening Prayer
O God, make speed to save us.
O Lord, make haste to help us
Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit…
On which the Prince of glory died,
My richest gain I count but loss,
And pour contempt on all my pride.
Save in the death of Christ my God;
The vain delights that charm me most:
I sacrifice them to his blood.
What grief and love flow mingling down;
Did e’er such Love and sorrow meet,
Or thorns compose so rich a crown?
That were a present far too small;
Love so amazing, so divine,
Demands my soul, my life, my all.
PSALMODY
Ant. Look well, all you people, and see my suffering.
Ant. Look well, all you people, and see my suffering.
Psalm 116
Credidi, propter
I am sorely afflicted,
No man can be trusted.
for his goodness to me?
I will call on the Lord's name.
before all his people.
is the death of his faithful.
you have loosened my bonds.
I will call on the Lord's name.
before all his people,
in your midst, O Jerusalem.
Ant. My soul is in anguish, my heart is in torment.
Ant. My soul is in anguish, my heart is in torment.
Psalm 143
Domine, exaudi
turn your ear to my appeal.
You are faithful, you are just; give answer.
for no one is just in your sight.
he has crushed my life to the ground;
he has made me dwell in darkness
like the dead, long forgotten.
my heart is numb within me.
I ponder all your works.
I muse on what your hand has wrought
Like a parched land my soul thirsts for you.
for my spirit fails within me.
Do not hide your face
lest I become like those in the grave.
for I put my trust in you.
Make me know the way I should walk:
to you I lift up my soul.
I have fled to you for refuge.
for you, O Lord, are my God.
Let your good spirit guide me
in ways that are level and smooth.
in your justice save my soul from distress.
destroy all those who oppress me
for I am your servant, O Lord.
Ant. When Jesus had taken the vinegar, he said, “It is finished.” Then he bowed his head and died.
Canticle
Philippians 2:6-11
Christ, God's holy servant
Though he was in the form of God,
Jesus did not deem equality with God
something to be grasped at.
Rather, he emptied himself
and took the form of a slave,
being born in the likeness of men.
He was known to be of human estate
and it was thus that he humbled himself,
obediently accepting even death,
death on a cross!
Because of this,
God highly exalted him
and bestowed on him the name
above every other name,
So that at Jesus' name
every knee must bend
in the heavens, on the earth,
and under the earth,
and every tongue proclaim
to the glory of God the Father:
JESUS CHRIST IS LORD!
MAGNIFICAT (Canticle of Mary)
Antiphon:
When we were his enemies, God reconciled us to himself by the death of his Son
INTERCESSIONS
Today, we lovingly remember the death of our Lord Jesus Christ, from which was born new life for the whole world. Let us turn to God the Father and say:
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