Psalm 143:1-11
Domine, exaudi
- 1
- LORD, hear my prayer,
and in your faithfulness heed my supplications; *
answer me in your righteousness.
- 2
- Enter not into judgment with your servant, *
for in your sight shall no one living be justified.
- 3
- For my enemy has sought my life;
he has crushed me to the ground; *
he has made me live in dark places like those who are long dead.
- 4
- My spirit faints within me; *
my heart within me is desolate.
- 5
- I remember the time past;
I muse upon all your deeds; *
I consider the works of your hands.
- 6
- I spread out my hands to you; *
my soul gasps to you like a thirsty land.
- 7
- O LORD, make haste to answer me; my spirit fails me; *
do not hide your face from me
or I shall be like those who go down to the Pit.
- 8
- Let me hear of your loving-kindness in the morning,
for I put my trust in you; *
show me the road that I must walk,
for I lift up my soul to you.
- 9
- Deliver me from my enemies, O LORD, *
for I flee to you for refuge.
- 10
- Teach me to do what pleases you, for you are my God; *
let your good Spirit lead me on level ground.
- 11
- Revive me, O LORD, for your Name's sake; *
for your righteousness' sake, bring me out of trouble.
Antiphon 2: As Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Antiphon 3: Destroy this temple, says the Lord, and in three days I will rebuild it. He was speaking of the temple of his body.
Philippians 2:6-11
Though he was in the form of God,
Jesus did not regard equality with God
as something to be exploited,
but emptied himself,
taking the form of a slave,
being born in human likeness.
And being found in human form,
he humbled himself
and became obedient to the point of death—
even death on a cross.
Therefore God also highly exalted him
and gave him the name
that is above every name,
so that at the name of Jesus
every knee should bend,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
and every tongue should confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.
Antiphon 3: Destroy this temple, says the Lord, and in three days I will rebuild it. He was speaking of the temple of his body.
First Reading
Lamentations 3:37-58
Who can command and have it done,
if the Lord has not ordained it?
Is it not from the mouth of the Most High
that good and bad come?
Why should any who draw breath complain
about the punishment of their sins?
Let us test and examine our ways,
and return to the Lord.
Let us lift up our hearts as well as our hands
to God in heaven.
We have transgressed and rebelled,
and you have not forgiven.
You have wrapped yourself with anger and pursued us,
killing without pity;
you have wrapped yourself with a cloud
so that no prayer can pass through.
You have made us filth and rubbish
among the peoples.
All our enemies
have opened their mouths against us;
panic and pitfall have come upon us,
devastation and destruction.
My eyes flow with rivers of tears
because of the destruction of my people.
My eyes will flow without ceasing,
without respite,
until the Lord from heaven
looks down and sees.
My eyes cause me grief
at the fate of all the young women in my city.
Those who were my enemies without cause
have hunted me like a bird;
they flung me alive into a pit
and hurled stones on me;
water closed over my head;
I said, ‘I am lost.’
I called on your name, O Lord,
from the depths of the pit;
you heard my plea, ‘Do not close your ear
to my cry for help, but give me relief!’
You came near when I called on you;
you said, ‘Do not fear!’
You have taken up my cause, O Lord,
you have redeemed my life.
Canticle
Many waters cannot quench love;*
neither can the floods drown it.
1 Set me as a seal upon your heart,*
as a seal upon your arm;
2 For love is strong as death
passion fierce as the grave;*
its flashes are flashes of fire,
a raging flame.
3 Many waters cannot quench love,*
neither can the floods drown it.
4 If all the wealth of our house
were offered for love,*
it would be utterly scorned.
Glory . . . Song of Songs 8. 7-8
Many waters cannot quench love;*
neither can the floods drown it.
Second Reading
Romans 8:1-11
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do: by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and to deal with sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, so that the just requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. For this reason the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law—indeed it cannot, and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
But you are not in the flesh; you are in the Spirit, since the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. But if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through his Spirit that dwells in you.
Responsory
For our sake, Christ was obedient, accepting even death, death on a cross. Therefor God raised him on high and gave him the name above all other names.
Antiphon:Now the Son of Man has been glorified and God has been glorified in Him.
Magnificat
Antiphon:Now the Son of Man has been glorified and God has been glorified in Him.
Kyrie Eleison
Collect of the Day
O God, Creator of heaven and earth: Grant that, as the crucified body of your dear Son was laid in the tomb and rested on this holy Sabbath, so we may await with him the coming of the third day, and rise with him to newness of life; who now lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
Personal Prayers and Thanksgivings
Intercessions
Our Redeemer suffered for us and was buried, to rise again. Let us truly and humbly worship him, and ask him:
- Lord, take pity on us.
Lord Jesus, from your pierced side came blood and water, the miraculous sign of your Church:
- bring your bride to life through your death, burial, and resurrection. (R.)
Lord Jesus, you remembered those who had forgotten your promise to rise from the dead:
- remember also those who do not yet know of your resurrection and live without hope.(R.)
Lamb of God, you are the paschal sacrifice offered up for all:
- draw all men to yourself.(R.)
God of the whole world, you hold the universe in your grasp, but still you allowed yourself to be held within a tomb.
- Free the human race from Hell and give it immortal glory.(R.)
Anointed One, Son of the living God, on the cross you opened the gates of Paradise to the thief.
- Let the dead, who shared your death and your burial, share also your glorious resurrection.(R.)
Lord's Prayer
Let us bless the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
Almighty and ever-living God,
your only-begotten Son descended into the underworld,
from which he rose into glory.
In your kindness, grant that your faithful people,
who in their baptism shared his burial,
may advance to eternal life by sharing in his resurrection.
Bow down before the Lord
May the life-giving cross
be the source of all our joy and peace. Amen.