Feria Sexta in Passione et Morte DominiFriday of the Passion and Death of the Lord
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Psalmi cum lectionibus
Nocturnus I
Ant. Astitérunt reges terræ, * et príncipes convenérunt in unum, advérsus Dóminum, et advérsus Christum ejus.
Psalmus 2 [1]
2:1 Quare fremuérunt gentes: * et pópuli meditáti sunt inánia?
2:2 Astitérunt reges terræ, et príncipes convenérunt in unum * advérsus Dóminum, et advérsus Christum ejus.
2:3 Dirumpámus víncula eórum: * et proiciámus a nobis jugum ipsórum.
2:4 Qui hábitat in cælis, irridébit eos: * et Dóminus subsannábit eos.
2:5 Tunc loquétur ad eos in ira sua, * et in furóre suo conturbábit eos.
2:6 Ego autem constitútus sum Rex ab eo super Sion montem sanctum ejus, * prǽdicans præcéptum ejus.
2:7 Dóminus dixit ad me: * Fílius meus es tu, ego hódie génui te.
2:8 Póstula a me, et dabo tibi gentes hereditátem tuam, * et possessiónem tuam términos terræ.
2:9 Reges eos in virga férrea, * et tamquam vas fíguli confrínges eos.
2:10 Et nunc, reges, intellégite: * erudímini, qui judicátis terram.
2:11 Servíte Dómino in timóre: * et exsultáte ei cum tremóre.
2:12 Apprehéndite disciplínam, nequándo irascátur Dóminus, * et pereátis de via justa.
2:13 Cum exárserit in brevi ira ejus: * beáti omnes qui confídunt in eo.
Gloria omittitur
Ant. Astitérunt reges terræ, et príncipes convenérunt in unum, advérsus Dóminum, et advérsus Christum ejus.
Ant. Divisérunt sibi * vestiménta mea, et super vestem meam misérunt sortem.
Psalmus 21 [2]
21:2 Deus, Deus meus, réspice in me: quare me dereliquísti? * longe a salúte mea verba delictórum meórum.
21:3 Deus meus, clamábo per diem, et non exáudies: * et nocte, et non ad insipiéntiam mihi.
21:4 Tu autem in sancto hábitas, * laus Israël.
21:5 In te speravérunt patres nostri: * speravérunt, et liberásti eos.
21:6 Ad te clamavérunt, et salvi facti sunt: * in te speravérunt, et non sunt confúsi.
21:7 Ego autem sum vermis, et non homo: * oppróbrium hóminum, et abjéctio plebis.
21:8 Omnes vidéntes me, derisérunt me: * locúti sunt lábiis, et movérunt caput.
21:9 Sperávit in Dómino, erípiat eum: * salvum fáciat eum, quóniam vult eum.
21:10 Quóniam tu es, qui extraxísti me de ventre: * spes mea ab ubéribus matris meæ. In te projéctus sum ex útero:
21:11 De ventre matris meæ Deus meus es tu, * ne discésseris a me:
21:12 Quóniam tribulátio próxima est: * quóniam non est qui ádjuvet.
21:13 Circumdedérunt me vítuli multi: * tauri pingues obsedérunt me.
21:14 Aperuérunt super me os suum, * sicut leo rápiens et rúgiens.
21:15 Sicut aqua effúsus sum: * et dispérsa sunt ómnia ossa mea.
21:15 Factum est cor meum tamquam cera liquéscens * in médio ventris mei.
21:16 Áruit tamquam testa virtus mea, et lingua mea adhǽsit fáucibus meis: * et in púlverem mortis deduxísti me.
21:17 Quóniam circumdedérunt me canes multi: * concílium malignántium obsédit me.
21:17 Fodérunt manus meas et pedes meos: * dinumeravérunt ómnia ossa mea.
21:18 Ipsi vero consideravérunt et inspexérunt me: * divisérunt sibi vestiménta mea, et super vestem meam misérunt sortem.
21:20 Tu autem, Dómine, ne elongáveris auxílium tuum a me: * ad defensiónem meam cónspice.
21:21 Érue a frámea, Deus, ánimam meam: * et de manu canis únicam meam:
21:22 Salva me ex ore leónis: * et a córnibus unicórnium humilitátem meam.
21:23 Narrábo nomen tuum frátribus meis: * in médio ecclésiæ laudábo te.
21:24 Qui timétis Dóminum, laudáte eum: * univérsum semen Jacob, glorificáte eum.
21:25 Tímeat eum omne semen Israël: * quóniam non sprevit, neque despéxit deprecatiónem páuperis:
21:25 Nec avértit fáciem suam a me: * et cum clamárem ad eum, exaudívit me.
21:26 Apud te laus mea in ecclésia magna: * vota mea reddam in conspéctu timéntium eum.
21:27 Edent páuperes, et saturabúntur: et laudábunt Dóminum qui requírunt eum: * vivent corda eórum in sǽculum sǽculi.
21:28 Reminiscéntur et converténtur ad Dóminum * univérsi fines terræ:
21:28 Et adorábunt in conspéctu ejus * univérsæ famíliæ géntium.
21:29 Quóniam Dómini est regnum: * et ipse dominábitur géntium.
21:30 Manducavérunt et adoravérunt omnes pingues terræ: * in conspéctu ejus cadent omnes qui descéndunt in terram.
21:31 Et ánima mea illi vivet: * et semen meum sérviet ipsi.
21:32 Annuntiábitur Dómino generátio ventúra: * et annuntiábunt cæli justítiam ejus pópulo qui nascétur, quem fecit Dóminus.
Gloria omittitur
Ant. Divisérunt sibi vestiménta mea, et super vestem meam misérunt sortem.
Ant. Insurrexérunt in me * testes iníqui, et mentíta est iníquitas sibi.
Psalmus 26 [3]
26:1 Dóminus illuminátio mea, et salus mea, * quem timébo?
26:1 Dóminus protéctor vitæ meæ, * a quo trepidábo?
26:2 Dum apprópiant super me nocéntes, * ut edant carnes meas:
26:2 Qui tríbulant me inimíci mei, * ipsi infirmáti sunt, et cecidérunt.
26:3 Si consístant advérsum me castra, * non timébit cor meum.
26:3 Si exsúrgat advérsum me prǽlium, * in hoc ego sperábo.
26:4 Unam pétii a Dómino, hanc requíram, * ut inhábitem in domo Dómini ómnibus diébus vitæ meæ:
26:4 Ut vídeam voluptátem Dómini, * et vísitem templum ejus.
26:5 Quóniam abscóndit me in tabernáculo suo: * in die malórum protéxit me in abscóndito tabernáculi sui.
26:6 In petra exaltávit me: * et nunc exaltávit caput meum super inimícos meos.
26:6 Circuívi, et immolávi in tabernáculo ejus hóstiam vociferatiónis: * cantábo, et psalmum dicam Dómino.
26:7 Exáudi, Dómine, vocem meam, qua clamávi ad te: * miserére mei, et exáudi me.
26:8 Tibi dixit cor meum, exquisívit te fácies mea: * fáciem tuam, Dómine, requíram.
26:9 Ne avértas fáciem tuam a me: * ne declínes in ira a servo tuo.
26:9 Adjútor meus esto: * ne derelínquas me, neque despícias me, Deus, salutáris meus.
26:10 Quóniam pater meus, et mater mea dereliquérunt me: * Dóminus autem assúmpsit me.
26:11 Legem pone mihi, Dómine, in via tua: * et dírige me in sémitam rectam propter inimícos meos.
26:12 Ne tradíderis me in ánimas tribulántium me: * quóniam insurrexérunt in me testes iníqui, et mentíta est iníquitas sibi.
26:13 Credo vidére bona Dómini * in terra vivéntium.
26:14 Exspécta Dóminum, viríliter age: * et confortétur cor tuum, et sústine Dóminum.
Gloria omittitur
Ant. Insurrexérunt in me testes iníqui, et mentíta est iníquitas sibi.
℣ Divisérunt sibi vestiménta mea.
℟ Et super vestem meam misérunt sortem.
Pater Noster dicitur totum secreto.
Pater noster, qui es in cælis, sanctificétur nomen tuum: advéniat regnum tuum: fiat volúntas tua, sicut in cælo et in terra. Panem nostrum cotidiánum da nobis hódie: et dimítte nobis débita nostra, sicut et nos dimíttimus debitóribus nostris: et ne nos indúcas in tentatiónem: sed líbera nos a malo. Amen.
Lectio 1
De Lamentatióne Jeremíæ Prophétæ
Lam 2:8-11
8 Heth. Cogitávit Dóminus dissipáre murum fíliæ Sion: teténdit funículum suum, et non avértit manum suam a perditióne: luxítque antemurále, et murus páriter dissipátus est.
9 Teth. Defíxæ sunt in terra portæ ejus: pérdidit, et contrívit vectes ejus: regem ejus et príncipes ejus in géntibus: non est lex, et prophétæ ejus non invenérunt visiónem a Dómino.
10 Jod. Sedérunt in terra, conticuérunt senes fíliæ Sion: conspersérunt cínere cápita sua, accíncti sunt cilíciis, abjecérunt in terram cápita sua vírgines Jerúsalem.
11 Caph. Defecérunt præ lácrimis óculi mei, conturbáta sunt víscera mea: effúsum est in terra jecur meum super contritióne fíliæ pópuli mei, cum defíceret párvulus et lactens in platéis óppidi.
Jerúsalem, Jerúsalem, convértere ad Dóminum Deum tuum.
℟ Omnes amíci mei dereliquérunt me, et prævaluérunt insidiántes mihi: trádidit me quem diligébam:
* Et terribílibus óculis plaga crudéli percutiéntes, acéto potábant me.
℣ Inter iníquos projecérunt me, et non pepercérunt ánimæ meæ.
℟ Et terribílibus óculis plaga crudéli percutiéntes, acéto potábant me.
Lectio 2
Lam 2:12-15
12 Lamed. Mátribus suis dixérunt: Ubi est tríticum et vinum? cum defícerent quasi vulneráti in platéis civitátis: cum exhalárent ánimas suas in sinu matrum suárum.
13 Mem. Cui comparábo te? vel cui assimilábo te, fília Jerúsalem? cui exæquábo te, et consolábor te, virgo fília Sion? Magna est enim velut mare contrítio tua: quis medébitur tui?
14 Nun. Prophétæ tui vidérunt tibi falsa et stulta, nec aperiébant iniquitátem tuam, ut te ad pœniténtiam provocárent: vidérunt autem tibi assumptiónes falsas, et ejectiónes.
15 Samech. Plausérunt super te mánibus omnes transeúntes per viam: sibilavérunt, et movérunt caput suum super fíliam Jerúsalem: Hǽccine est urbs, dicéntes, perfécti decóris, gáudium univérsæ terræ?
Jerúsalem, Jerúsalem, convértere ad Dóminum Deum tuum.
℟ Velum templi scissum est,
* Et omnis terra trémuit: latro de cruce clamábat, dicens: Meménto mei, Dómine, dum véneris in regnum tuum.
℣ Petræ scissæ sunt, et monuménta apérta sunt, et multa córpora sanctórum, qui dormíerant, surrexérunt.
℟ Et omnis terra trémuit: latro de cruce clamábat, dicens: Meménto mei, Dómine, dum véneris in regnum tuum.
Lectio 3
Lam 3:1-9
1 Aleph. Ego vir videns paupertátem meam in virga indignatiónis ejus.
2 Aleph. Me minávit, et addúxit in ténebras, et non in lucem.
3 Aleph. Tantum in me vertit, et convértit manum suam tota die.
4 Beth. Vetústam fecit pellem meam, et carnem meam, contrívit ossa mea.
5 Beth. Ædificávit in gyro meo, et circúmdedit me felle et labóre.
6 Beth. In tenebrósis collocávit me, quasi mórtuos sempitérnos.
7 Ghimel. Circumædificávit advérsum me, ut non egrédiar: aggravávit cómpedem meum.
8 Ghimel. Sed et, cum clamávero et rogávero, exclúsit oratiónem meam.
9 Ghimel. Conclúsit vias meas lapídibus quadris, sémitas meas subvértit.
Jerúsalem, Jerúsalem, convértere ad Dóminum Deum tuum.
℟ Vínea mea elécta, ego te plantávi:
* Quómodo convérsa es in amaritúdinem, ut me crucifígeres et Barábbam dimítteres?
℣ Sepívi te, et lápides elégi ex te, et ædificávi turrim.
℟ Quómodo convérsa es in amaritúdinem, ut me crucifígeres et Barábbam dimítteres?
Gloria omittitur
℟ Vínea mea elécta, ego te plantávi: * Quómodo convérsa es in amaritúdinem, ut me crucifígeres et Barábbam dimítteres?
Nocturnus II
Ant. Vim faciébant, * qui quærébant ánimam meam.
Psalmus 37 [4]
37:2 Dómine, ne in furóre tuo árguas me, * neque in ira tua corrípias me.
37:3 Quóniam sagíttæ tuæ infíxæ sunt mihi: * et confirmásti super me manum tuam.
37:4 Non est sánitas in carne mea a fácie iræ tuæ: * non est pax óssibus meis a fácie peccatórum meórum.
37:5 Quóniam iniquitátes meæ supergréssæ sunt caput meum: * et sicut onus grave gravátæ sunt super me.
37:6 Putruérunt et corrúptæ sunt cicatríces meæ, * a fácie insipiéntiæ meæ.
37:7 Miser factus sum, et curvátus sum usque in finem: * tota die contristátus ingrediébar.
37:8 Quóniam lumbi mei impléti sunt illusiónibus: * et non est sánitas in carne mea.
37:9 Afflíctus sum, et humiliátus sum nimis: * rugiébam a gémitu cordis mei.
37:10 Dómine, ante te omne desidérium meum: * et gémitus meus a te non est abscónditus.
37:11 Cor meum conturbátum est, derelíquit me virtus mea: * et lumen oculórum meórum, et ipsum non est mecum.
37:12 Amíci mei, et próximi mei * advérsum me appropinquavérunt, et stetérunt.
37:12 Et qui juxta me erant, de longe stetérunt: * et vim faciébant qui quærébant ánimam meam.
37:13 Et qui inquirébant mala mihi, locúti sunt vanitátes: * et dolos tota die meditabántur.
37:14 Ego autem tamquam surdus non audiébam: * et sicut mutus non apériens os suum.
37:15 Et factus sum sicut homo non áudiens: * et non habens in ore suo redargutiónes.
37:16 Quóniam in te, Dómine, sperávi: * tu exáudies me, Dómine, Deus meus.
37:17 Quia dixi: Nequándo supergáudeant mihi inimíci mei: * et dum commovéntur pedes mei, super me magna locúti sunt.
37:18 Quóniam ego in flagélla parátus sum: * et dolor meus in conspéctu meo semper.
37:19 Quóniam iniquitátem meam annuntiábo: * et cogitábo pro peccáto meo.
37:20 Inimíci autem mei vivunt, et confirmáti sunt super me: * et multiplicáti sunt qui odérunt me iníque.
37:21 Qui retríbuunt mala pro bonis, detrahébant mihi: * quóniam sequébar bonitátem.
37:22 Ne derelínquas me, Dómine, Deus meus: * ne discésseris a me.
37:23 Inténde in adjutórium meum, * Dómine, Deus, salútis meæ.
Gloria omittitur
Ant. Vim faciébant, qui quærébant ánimam meam.
Ant. Confundántur * et revereántur, qui quærunt ánimam meam, ut áuferant eam.
Psalmus 39 [5]
39:2 Exspéctans exspectávi Dóminum, * et inténdit mihi.
39:3 Et exaudívit preces meas: * et edúxit me de lacu misériæ, et de luto fæcis.
39:3 Et státuit super petram pedes meos: * et diréxit gressus meos.
39:4 Et immísit in os meum cánticum novum, * carmen Deo nostro.
39:4 Vidébunt multi, et timébunt: * et sperábunt in Dómino.
39:5 Beátus vir, cujus est nomen Dómini spes ejus: * et non respéxit in vanitátes et insánias falsas.
39:6 Multa fecísti tu, Dómine, Deus meus, mirabília tua: * et cogitatiónibus tuis non est qui símilis sit tibi.
39:6 Annuntiávi et locútus sum: * multiplicáti sunt super númerum.
39:7 Sacrifícium et oblatiónem noluísti: * aures autem perfecísti mihi.
39:7 Holocáustum et pro peccáto non postulásti: * tunc dixi: Ecce, vénio.
39:8 In cápite libri scriptum est de me ut fácerem voluntátem tuam: * Deus meus, vólui, et legem tuam in médio cordis mei.
39:10 Annuntiávi justítiam tuam in ecclésia magna, * ecce, lábia mea non prohibébo: Dómine, tu scisti.
39:11 Justítiam tuam non abscóndi in corde meo: * veritátem tuam et salutáre tuum dixi.
39:11 Non abscóndi misericórdiam tuam et veritátem tuam * a concílio multo.
39:12 Tu autem, Dómine, ne longe fácias miseratiónes tuas a me: * misericórdia tua et véritas tua semper suscepérunt me.
39:13 Quóniam circumdedérunt me mala, quorum non est númerus: * comprehendérunt me iniquitátes meæ, et non pótui ut vidérem.
39:13 Multiplicátæ sunt super capíllos cápitis mei: * et cor meum derelíquit me.
39:14 Compláceat tibi, Dómine, ut éruas me: * Dómine, ad adjuvándum me réspice.
39:15 Confundántur et revereántur simul, qui quærunt ánimam meam, * ut áuferant eam.
39:15 Convertántur retrórsum, et revereántur, * qui volunt mihi mala.
39:16 Ferant conféstim confusiónem suam, * qui dicunt mihi: Euge, euge.
39:17 Exsúltent et læténtur super te omnes quæréntes te: * et dicant semper: Magnificétur Dóminus: qui díligunt salutáre tuum.
39:18 Ego autem mendícus sum, et pauper: * Dóminus sollícitus est mei.
39:18 Adjútor meus, et protéctor meus tu es: * Deus meus, ne tardáveris.
Gloria omittitur
Ant. Confundántur et revereántur, qui quærunt ánimam meam, ut áuferant eam.
Ant. Aliéni * insurrexérunt in me, et fortes quæsiérunt ánimam meam.
Psalmus 53 [6]
53:3 Deus, in nómine tuo salvum me fac: * et in virtúte tua júdica me.
53:4 Deus, exáudi oratiónem meam: * áuribus pércipe verba oris mei.
53:5 Quóniam aliéni insurrexérunt advérsum me, et fortes quæsiérunt ánimam meam: * et non proposuérunt Deum ante conspéctum suum.
53:6 Ecce enim, Deus ádjuvat me: * et Dóminus suscéptor est ánimæ meæ.
53:7 Avérte mala inimícis meis: * et in veritáte tua dispérde illos.
53:8 Voluntárie sacrificábo tibi, * et confitébor nómini tuo, Dómine: quóniam bonum est:
53:9 Quóniam ex omni tribulatióne eripuísti me: * et super inimícos meos despéxit óculus meus.
Gloria omittitur
Ant. Aliéni insurrexérunt in me, et fortes quæsiérunt ánimam meam.
℣ Insurrexérunt in me testes iníqui.
℟ Et mentíta est iníquitas sibi.
Pater Noster dicitur totum secreto.
Pater noster, qui es in cælis, sanctificétur nomen tuum: advéniat regnum tuum: fiat volúntas tua, sicut in cælo et in terra. Panem nostrum cotidiánum da nobis hódie: et dimítte nobis débita nostra, sicut et nos dimíttimus debitóribus nostris: et ne nos indúcas in tentatiónem: sed líbera nos a malo. Amen.
Lectio 4
Ex tractátu sancti Augustíni Epíscopi super Psalmos
In Psalm 63 ad versum 2
Protexísti me, Deus, a convéntu malignántium, a multitúdine operántium iniquitátem. Jam ipsum caput nostrum intueámur. Multi Mártyres tália passi sunt, sed nihil sic elúcet, quómodo caput Mártyrum: ibi mélius intuémur, quod illi expérti sunt. Protéctus est a multitúdine malignántium, protegénte se Deo, protegénte carnem suam ipso Fílio, et hómine, quem gerébat: quia fílius hóminis est, et Fílius Dei est. Fílius Dei, propter formam Dei: fílius hóminis, propter formam servi, habens in potestáte pónere ánimam suam, et recípere eam. Quid ei potuérunt fácere inimíci? Occidérunt corpus, ánimam non occidérunt. Inténdite. Parum ergo erat, Dóminum hortári Mártyres verbo, nisi firmáret exémplo.
℟ Tamquam ad latrónem exístis cum gládiis et fústibus comprehéndere me:
* Cotídie apud vos eram in templo docens, et non me tenuístis: et ecce flagellátum dúcitis ad crucifigéndum.
℣ Cumque injecíssent manus in Jesum, et tenuíssent eum, dixit ad eos.
℟ Cotídie apud vos eram in templo docens, et non me tenuístis: et ecce flagellátum dúcitis ad crucifigéndum.
Lectio 5
Nostis qui convéntus erat malignántium Judæórum, et quæ multitúdo erat operántium iniquitátem. Quam iniquitátem? Quia voluérunt occídere Dóminum Jesum Christum. Tanta ópera bona, inquit, osténdi vobis: propter quod horum me vultis occídere? Pértulit omnes infírmos eórum, curávit omnes lánguidos eórum, prædicávit regnum cælórum, non tácuit vítia eórum, ut ipsa pótius eis displicérent, non médicus, a quo sanabántur. His ómnibus curatiónibus ejus ingráti, tamquam multa febre phrenétici, insaniéntes in médicum, qui vénerat curáre eos, excogitavérunt consílium perdéndi eum: tamquam ibi voléntes probáre, utrum vere homo sit, qui mori possit, an áliquid super hómines sit, et mori se non permíttat. Verbum ipsórum agnóscimus in Sapiéntia Salomónis: Morte turpíssima, ínquiunt, condemnémus eum. Interrogémus eum: erit enim respéctus in sermónibus illíus. Si enim vere Fílius Dei est, líberet eum.
℟ Ténebræ factæ sunt, dum crucifixíssent Jesum Judǽi: et circa horam nonam exclamávit Jesus voce magna: Deus meus, ut quid me dereliquísti?
* Et inclináto cápite, emísit spíritum.
℣ Exclámans Jesus voce magna, ait: Pater, in manus tuas comméndo spíritum meum.
℟ Et inclináto cápite, emísit spíritum.
Lectio 6
Exacuérunt tamquam gládium linguas suas. Non dicant Judǽi: Non occídimus Christum. Etenim proptérea eum dedérunt júdici Piláto, ut quasi ipsi a morte ejus videréntur immúnes. Nam cum dixísset eis Pilátus: Vos eum occídite: respondérunt, Nobis non licet occídere quemquam. Iniquitátem facínoris sui in júdicem hóminem refúndere volébant: sed numquid Deum júdicem fallébant? Quod fecit Pilátus, in eo ipso quod fecit, aliquántum párticeps fuit: sed in comparatióne illórum multo ipse innocéntior. Institit enim quantum pótuit, ut illum ex eórum mánibus liberáret: nam proptérea flagellátum prodúxit ad eos. Non persequéndo Dóminum flagellávit, sed eórum furóri satisfácere volens: ut vel sic jam mitéscerent, et desínerent velle occídere, cum flagellátum vidérent. Fecit et hoc. At ubi perseveravérunt, nostis illum lavísse manus, et dixísse, quod ipse non fecísset, mundum se esse a morte illíus. Fecit tamen. Sed si reus, quia fecit vel invítus: illi innocéntes, qui coëgérunt ut fáceret? Nullo modo. Sed ille dixit in eum senténtiam, et jussit eum crucifígi, et quasi ipse occídit: et vos, o Judǽi, occidístis. Unde occidístis? Gládio linguæ: acuístis enim linguas vestras. Et quando percussístis, nisi quando clamástis: Crucifíge, crucifíge?
℟ Animam meam diléctam trádidi in manus iniquórum, et facta est mihi heréditas mea sicut leo in silva: dedit contra me voces adversárius, dicens: Congregámini, et properáte ad devorándum illum: posuérunt me in desérto solitúdinis, et luxit super me omnis terra:
* Quia non est invéntus qui me agnósceret, et fáceret bene.
℣ Insurrexérunt in me viri absque misericórdia, et non pepercérunt ánimæ meæ.
℟ Quia non est invéntus qui me agnósceret, et fáceret bene.
Gloria omittitur
℟ Animam meam diléctam trádidi in manus iniquórum, et facta est mihi heréditas mea sicut leo in silva: dedit contra me voces adversárius, dicens: Congregámini, et properáte ad devorándum illum: posuérunt me in desérto solitúdinis, et luxit super me omnis terra: * Quia non est invéntus qui me agnósceret, et fáceret bene.
Nocturnus III
Ant. Ab insurgéntibus in me * líbera me, Dómine, quia occupavérunt ánimam meam.
Psalmus 58 [7]
58:2 Éripe me de inimícis meis, Deus meus: * et ab insurgéntibus in me líbera me.
58:3 Éripe me de operántibus iniquitátem: * et de viris sánguinum salva me.
58:4 Quia ecce cepérunt ánimam meam: * irruérunt in me fortes.
58:5 Neque iníquitas mea, neque peccátum meum, Dómine: * sine iniquitáte cucúrri, et diréxi.
58:6 Exsúrge in occúrsum meum, et vide: * et tu, Dómine, Deus virtútum, Deus Israël,
58:6 Inténde ad visitándas omnes gentes: * non misereáris ómnibus, qui operántur iniquitátem.
58:7 Converténtur ad vésperam: et famem patiéntur ut canes, * et circuíbunt civitátem.
58:8 Ecce, loquéntur in ore suo, et gládius in lábiis eórum: * quóniam quis audívit?
58:9 Et tu, Dómine, deridébis eos: * ad níhilum dedúces omnes gentes.
58:10 Fortitúdinem meam ad te custódiam, quia, Deus, suscéptor meus es: * Deus meus, misericórdia ejus prævéniet me.
58:12 Deus osténdet mihi super inimícos meos, ne occídas eos: * nequándo obliviscántur pópuli mei.
58:12 Dispérge illos in virtúte tua: * et depóne eos, protéctor meus, Dómine:
58:13 Delíctum oris eórum, sermónem labiórum ipsórum: * et comprehendántur in supérbia sua.
58:13 Et de exsecratióne et mendácio annuntiabúntur in consummatióne: * in ira consummatiónis, et non erunt.
58:14 Et scient quia Deus dominábitur Jacob: * et fínium terræ.
58:15 Converténtur ad vésperam: et famem patiéntur ut canes, * et circuíbunt civitátem.
58:16 Ipsi dispergéntur ad manducándum: * si vero non fúerint saturáti, et murmurábunt.
58:17 Ego autem cantábo fortitúdinem tuam: * et exsultábo mane misericórdiam tuam.
58:17 Quia factus es suscéptor meus, * et refúgium meum, in die tribulatiónis meæ.
58:18 Adjútor meus, tibi psallam, quia, Deus, suscéptor meus es: * Deus meus, misericórdia mea.
Gloria omittitur
Ant. Ab insurgéntibus in me líbera me, Dómine, quia occupavérunt ánimam meam.
Ant. Longe fecísti * notos meos a me: tráditus sum, et non egrediébar.
Psalmus 87 [8]
87:2 Dómine, Deus salútis meæ: * in die clamávi, et nocte coram te.
87:3 Intret in conspéctu tuo orátio mea: * inclína aurem tuam ad precem meam:
87:4 Quia repléta est malis ánima mea: * et vita mea inférno appropinquávit.
87:5 Æstimátus sum cum descendéntibus in lacum: * factus sum sicut homo sine adjutório, inter mórtuos liber.
87:6 Sicut vulneráti dormiéntes in sepúlcris, quorum non es memor ámplius: * et ipsi de manu tua repúlsi sunt.
87:7 Posuérunt me in lacu inferióri: * in tenebrósis, et in umbra mortis.
87:8 Super me confirmátus est furor tuus: * et omnes fluctus tuos induxísti super me.
87:9 Longe fecísti notos meos a me: * posuérunt me abominatiónem sibi.
87:9 Tráditus sum, et non egrediébar: * óculi mei languérunt præ inópia.
87:10 Clamávi ad te, Dómine, tota die: * expándi ad te manus meas.
87:11 Numquid mórtuis fácies mirabília: * aut médici suscitábunt, et confitebúntur tibi?
87:12 Numquid narrábit áliquis in sepúlcro misericórdiam tuam, * et veritátem tuam in perditióne?
87:13 Numquid cognoscéntur in ténebris mirabília tua, * et justítia tua in terra obliviónis?
87:14 Et ego ad te, Dómine, clamávi: * et mane orátio mea prævéniet te.
87:15 Ut quid, Dómine, repéllis oratiónem meam: * avértis fáciem tuam a me?
87:16 Pauper sum ego, et in labóribus a juventúte mea: * exaltátus autem, humiliátus sum et conturbátus.
87:17 In me transiérunt iræ tuæ: * et terróres tui conturbavérunt me.
87:18 Circumdedérunt me sicut aqua tota die: * circumdedérunt me simul.
87:19 Elongásti a me amícum et próximum: * et notos meos a miséria.
Gloria omittitur
Ant. Longe fecísti notos meos a me: tráditus sum, et non egrediébar.
Ant. Captábunt * in ánimam justi, et sánguinem innocéntem condemnábunt.
Psalmus 93 [9]
93:1 Deus ultiónum Dóminus: * Deus ultiónum líbere egit.
93:2 Exaltáre, qui júdicas terram: * redde retributiónem supérbis.
93:3 Úsquequo peccatóres, Dómine, * úsquequo peccatóres gloriabúntur:
93:4 Effabúntur, et loquéntur iniquitátem: * loquéntur omnes, qui operántur injustítiam?
93:5 Pópulum tuum, Dómine, humiliavérunt: * et hereditátem tuam vexavérunt.
93:6 Víduam, et ádvenam interfecérunt: * et pupíllos occidérunt.
93:7 Et dixérunt: Non vidébit Dóminus, * nec intélleget Deus Jacob.
93:8 Intellégite, insipiéntes in pópulo: * et stulti, aliquándo sápite.
93:9 Qui plantávit aurem, non áudiet? * aut qui finxit óculum, non consíderat?
93:10 Qui córripit gentes, non árguet: * qui docet hóminem sciéntiam?
93:11 Dóminus scit cogitatiónes hóminum, * quóniam vanæ sunt.
93:12 Beátus homo, quem tu erudíeris, Dómine: * et de lege tua docúeris eum,
93:13 Ut mítiges ei a diébus malis: * donec fodiátur peccatóri fóvea.
93:14 Quia non repéllet Dóminus plebem suam: * et hereditátem suam non derelínquet.
93:15 Quoadúsque justítia convertátur in judícium: * et qui juxta illam omnes qui recto sunt corde.
93:16 Quis consúrget mihi advérsus malignántes? * aut quis stabit mecum advérsus operántes iniquitátem?
93:17 Nisi quia Dóminus adjúvit me: * paulo minus habitásset in inférno ánima mea.
93:18 Si dicébam: Motus est pes meus: * misericórdia tua, Dómine, adjuvábat me.
93:19 Secúndum multitúdinem dolórum meórum in corde meo: * consolatiónes tuæ lætificavérunt ánimam meam.
93:20 Numquid adhǽret tibi sedes iniquitátis: * qui fingis labórem in præcépto?
93:21 Captábunt in ánimam justi: * et sánguinem innocéntem condemnábunt.
93:22 Et factus est mihi Dóminus in refúgium: * et Deus meus in adjutórium spei meæ.
93:23 Et reddet illis iniquitátem ipsórum: et in malítia eórum dispérdet eos: * dispérdet illos Dóminus, Deus noster.
Gloria omittitur
Ant. Captábunt in ánimam justi, et sánguinem innocéntem condemnábunt.
℣ Locúti sunt advérsum me lingua dolósa.
℟ Et sermónibus ódii circumdedérunt me, et expugnavérunt me gratis.
Pater Noster dicitur totum secreto.
Pater noster, qui es in cælis, sanctificétur nomen tuum: advéniat regnum tuum: fiat volúntas tua, sicut in cælo et in terra. Panem nostrum cotidiánum da nobis hódie: et dimítte nobis débita nostra, sicut et nos dimíttimus debitóribus nostris: et ne nos indúcas in tentatiónem: sed líbera nos a malo. Amen.
Lectio 7
De Epístola beáti Pauli Apóstoli ad Hebrǽos
Heb 4:11-15
11 Festinémus íngredi in illam réquiem: ut ne in idípsum quis íncidat incredulitátis exémplum.
12 Vivus est enim sermo Dei, et éfficax et penetrabílior omni gládio ancípiti: et pertíngens usque ad divisiónem ánimæ ac spíritus, compágum quoque ac medullárum, et discrétor cogitatiónum et intentiónum cordis.
13 Et non est ulla creatúra invisíbilis in conspéctu ejus: ómnia autem nuda et apérta sunt óculis ejus, ad quem nobis sermo.
14 Habéntes ergo Pontíficem magnum, qui penetrávit cælos, Jesum Fílium Dei: teneámus confessiónem.
15 Non enim habémus Pontíficem, qui non possit cómpati infirmitátibus nostris: tentátum autem per ómnia pro similitúdine absque peccáto.
℟ Tradidérunt me in manus impiórum, et inter iníquos projecérunt me, et non pepercérunt ánimæ meæ: congregáti sunt advérsum me fortes:
* Et sicut gigántes stetérunt contra me.
℣ Aliéni insurrexérunt advérsum me, et fortes quæsiérunt ánimam meam.
℟ Et sicut gigántes stetérunt contra me.
Lectio 8
Heb 4:16; 5:1-3
16 Adeámus ergo cum fidúcia ad thronum grátiæ: ut misericórdiam consequámur, et grátiam inveniámus in auxílio opportúno.
1 Omnis namque Póntifex ex homínibus assúmptus, pro homínibus constitúitur in iis, quæ sunt ad Deum, ut ófferat dona, et sacrifícia pro peccátis:
2 Qui condolére possit iis, qui ignórant et errant: quóniam et ipse circúmdatus est infirmitáte:
3 Et proptérea debet quemádmodum pro pópulo, ita étiam pro semetípso offérre pro peccátis.
℟ Jesum trádidit ímpius summis princípibus sacerdótum, et senióribus pópuli:
* Petrus autem sequebátur eum a longe, ut vidéret finem.
℣ Adduxérunt autem eum ad Cáipham príncipem sacerdótum, ubi scribæ et pharisǽi convénerant.
℟ Petrus autem sequebátur eum a longe, ut vidéret finem.
Lectio 9
Heb 5:4-10
4 Nec quisquam sumit sibi honórem, sed qui vocátur a Deo, tamquam Aaron.
5 Sic et Christus non semetípsum clarificávit ut Póntifex fíeret, sed qui locútus est ad eum: Fílius meus es tu, ego hódie génui te.
6 Quemádmodum et in álio loco dicit: Tu es sacérdos in ætérnum, secúndum órdinem Melchísedech.
7 Qui in diébus carnis suæ preces, supplicationésque ad eum, qui possit illum salvum fácere a morte, cum clamóre válido et lácrimis ófferens, exaudítus est pro sua reveréntia.
8 Et quidem cum esset Fílius Dei, dídicit ex iis, quæ passus est, obediéntiam:
9 Et consummátus, factus est ómnibus obtemperántibus sibi causa salútis ætérnæ,
10 Appellátus a Deo Póntifex juxta órdinem Melchísedech.
℟ Caligavérunt óculi mei a fletu meo: quia elongátus est a me, qui consolabátur me: Vidéte omnes pópuli,
* Si est dolor símilis sicut dolor meus.
℣ O vos omnes, qui transítis per viam, atténdite et vidéte.
℟ Si est dolor símilis sicut dolor meus.
Gloria omittitur
℟ Caligavérunt óculi mei a fletu meo: quia elongátus est a me, qui consolabátur me: Vidéte omnes pópuli, * Si est dolor símilis sicut dolor meus.
Reliqua omittuntur, nisi Laudes separandæ sint.
Nocturn I
Ant. The kings of the earth stood up, * and the princes assembled together, against the Lord and against his Christ.
Psalm 2 [1]
2:1 Why have the Gentiles been seething, * and why have the people been pondering nonsense?
2:2 The kings of the earth have stood up, and the leaders have joined together as one, * against the Lord and against his Christ:
2:3 “Let us shatter their chains * and cast their yoke away from us.”
2:4 He who dwells in heaven will ridicule them, * and the Lord will mock them.
2:5 Then will he speak to them in his anger * and trouble them with his fury.
2:6 Yet I have been appointed king by him over Zion, his holy mountain, * preaching his precepts.
2:7 The Lord has said to me: * You are my son, this day have I begotten you.
2:8 Ask of me and I will give to you: the Gentiles for your inheritance, * and the ends of the earth for your possession.
2:9 You will rule them with an iron rod, * and you will shatter them like a potter’s vessel.
2:10 And now, O kings, understand. * Receive instruction, you who judge the earth.
2:11 Serve the Lord in fear, * and exult in him with trembling.
2:12 Embrace discipline, lest at any time the Lord might become angry, * and you would perish from the way of the just.
2:13 Though his wrath can flare up in a short time, * blessed are all those who trust in him.
The Gloria is omitted
Ant. The kings of the earth stood up, and the princes assembled together, against the Lord and against his Christ.
Ant. They divided * my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
Psalm 21 [2]
21:2 O God, my God, look upon me. Why have you forsaken me? * Far from my salvation are the words of my offenses.
21:3 My God, I will cry out by day, and you will not heed, * and by night, and it will not be foolishness for me.
21:4 But you dwell in holiness, * O Praise of Israel.
21:5 In you, our fathers have hoped. * They hoped, and you freed them.
21:6 They cried out to you, and they were saved. * In you, they hoped and were not confounded.
21:7 But I am a worm and not a man: * a disgrace among men, and an outcast of the people.
21:8 All those who saw me have derided me. * They have spoken with the lips and shook the head.
21:9 He has hoped in the Lord, let him rescue him. * Let him save him because he chooses him.
21:10 For you are the one who has drawn me out of the womb, * my hope from the breasts of my mother. I have been thrown upon you from the womb;
21:11 from the womb of my mother, you are my God. * Do not depart from me.
21:12 For tribulation is near, * since there is no one who may help me.
21:13 Many calves have surrounded me; * fat bulls have besieged me.
21:14 They have opened their mouths over me, * just like a lion seizing and roaring.
21:15 And so, I have been poured out like water, * and all my bones have been scattered.
21:15 My heart has become like wax, melting * in the midst of my chest.
21:16 My strength has dried up like clay, and my tongue has adhered to my jaws. * And you have pulled me down, into the dust of death.
21:17 For many dogs have surrounded me. * The council of the malicious has besieged me.
21:17 They have pierced my hands and feet. * They have numbered all my bones.
21:18 And they have examined me and stared at me. * They divided my garments among them, and over my vestment, they cast lots.
21:20 But you, O Lord, do not take your help far from me; * be attentive to my defense.
21:21 O God, rescue my soul from the spear, * and my only one from the hand of the dog.
21:22 Save me from the mouth of the lion, * and my humility from the horns of the single-horned beast.
21:23 I will declare your name to my brothers. * In the midst of the Church, I will praise you.
21:24 You who fear the Lord, praise him. * All the offspring of Jacob, glorify him.
21:25 May all the offspring of Israel fear him. * For he has neither spurned nor despised the pleas of the poor.
21:25 Neither has he turned his face away from me. * And when I cried out to him, he heeded me.
21:26 My praise is with you, within a great church. * I will pay my vows in the sight of those who fear him.
21:27 The poor will eat and be satisfied, and those who yearn for the Lord will praise him. * Their hearts will live forever and ever.
21:28 All the ends of the earth will remember, * and they will be converted to the Lord.
21:28 And all the families of the Gentiles * will adore in his sight.
21:29 For the kingdom belongs to the Lord, * and he will have dominion over the Gentiles.
21:30 All the fat of the earth have gnashed their teeth, and they have adored. * In his sight, they will fall down, all those who descend to the ground.
21:31 And my soul will live for him, * and my offspring will serve him.
21:32 There will be announced for the Lord a future generation, * and the heavens will announce his justice to a people who will be born, whom the Lord has made.
The Gloria is omitted
Ant. They divided my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
Ant. Unjust witnesses * rose up against me, and iniquity lied to itself.
Psalm 26 [3]
26:1 The Lord is my light and my salvation, * whom shall I fear?
26:1 The Lord is the protector of my life, * of whom shall I be afraid?
26:2 Meanwhile, the guilty draw near to me, * so as to eat my flesh.
26:2 Those who trouble me, my enemies, * have themselves been weakened and have fallen.
26:3 If entrenched armies were to stand together against me, * my heart would not fear.
26:3 If a battle were to rise up against me, * I would have hope in this.
26:4 One thing I have asked of the Lord, this I will seek: * that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life,
26:4 so that I may behold the delight of the Lord, * and may visit his temple.
26:5 For he has hidden me in his tabernacle. * In the day of evils, he has protected me in the hidden place of his tabernacle.
26:6 He has exalted me upon the rock, * and now he has exalted my head above my enemies.
26:6 I have circled around and offered a sacrifice of loud exclamation in his tabernacle. * I will sing, and I will compose a psalm, to the Lord.
26:7 Hear my voice, O Lord, with which I have cried out to you. * Have mercy on me, and hear me.
26:8 My heart has spoken to you; my face has sought you. * I yearn for your face, O Lord.
26:9 Do not turn your face away from me. * In your wrath, do not turn aside from your servant.
26:9 Be my helper. * Do not abandon me, and do not despise me, O God, my Savior.
26:10 For my father and my mother have left me behind, * but the Lord has taken me up.
26:11 O Lord, establish a law for me in your way, * and direct me in the right path, because of my enemies.
26:12 Do not surrender me to the souls of those who trouble me. * For unjust witnesses have risen up against me, and iniquity has lied to itself.
26:13 I believe that I shall see the good things of the Lord * in the land of the living.
26:14 Wait for the Lord, act manfully; * and let your heart be strengthened, and remain with the Lord.
The Gloria is omitted
Ant. Unjust witnesses rose up against me, and iniquity lied to itself.
℣ They divided my garments among themselves.
℟ And upon my vesture they cast lots.
The Our Father is said entirely in silence.
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name: thy kingdom come: thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread: and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us: and lead us not into temptation: but deliver us from evil. Amen.
Lesson 1
From the Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah
Lam 2:8-11
8 HETH. The Lord has decided to tear down the wall of the daughter of Zion. He has stretched out his measuring line, and he has not turned away his hand from perdition. And the rampart has mourned, and with the wall it has been torn apart.
9 TETH. Her gates have been buried in the ground. He has ruined and crushed its bars. Her king and her princes are with the Gentiles. There is no law, and her prophets have found no vision from the Lord.
10 JOD. The elders of the daughter of Zion have become idle; they sit on the ground. They have sprinkled their heads with ashes. They have been wrapped with haircloth. The virgins of Jerusalem have cast their heads down to the ground.
11 CAPH. My eyes have exhausted their tears. My internal organs have become disturbed. My liver has been poured out on the earth, over the grief of the daughter of my people, when the little ones and the infants passed away in the streets of the town.
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, return to the Lord your God.
℟ All my friends have forsaken me, and those who laid snares for me have prevailed: he whom I loved has betrayed me:
* And striking me with a cruel blow with terrible eyes, they gave me vinegar to drink.
℣ Among the wicked they cast me, and they did not spare my soul.
℟ And striking me with a cruel blow with terrible eyes, they gave me vinegar to drink.
Lesson 2
Translation unavailable.
℟ The veil of the temple was torn,
* And all the earth trembled: the thief cried out from the cross, saying: Remember me, O Lord, when you come into your kingdom.
℣ The rocks were split, and the tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had slept arose.
℟ And all the earth trembled: the thief cried out from the cross, saying: Remember me, O Lord, when you come into your kingdom.
Lesson 3
Lam 3:1-9
1 ALEPH. I am a man watching my own poverty by the rod of his indignation.
2 ALEPH. He has driven me and led me into darkness, and not into light.
3 ALEPH. Against me only, he has turned and turned again his hand, all day long.
4 BETH. My skin and my flesh, he has made old; he has crushed my bones.
5 BETH. He has built all around me, and he has encircled me with gall and hardship.
6 BETH. He has gathered me into darkness, like those who are forever dead.
7 GHIMEL. He has built against me all around, so that I may not depart. He has increased the burden of my confinement.
8 GHIMEL. Yet even when I cry out and beg, he excludes my prayer.
9 GHIMEL. He has enclosed my ways with square stones; he has subverted my paths.
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, turn back to the Lord your God.
℟ My chosen vineyard, I planted you:
* How have you turned to bitterness, so as to crucify me and release Barabbas?
℣ I fenced you about, and picked out the stones from you, and built a tower.
℟ How have you turned to bitterness, so as to crucify me and release Barabbas?
The Gloria is omitted
℟ My chosen vineyard, I planted you: * How have you turned to bitterness, so as to crucify me and release Barabbas?
Nocturn II
Ant. They used violence * who sought my soul.
Psalm 37 [4]
37:2 O Lord, do not rebuke me in your fury, * nor chastise me in your wrath.
37:3 For your arrows have been driven into me, * and your hand has been confirmed over me.
37:4 There is no health in my flesh before the face of your wrath. * There is no peace for my bones before the face of my sins.
37:5 For my iniquities have walked over my head, * and they have been like a heavy burden weighing upon me.
37:6 My sores have putrefied and been corrupted * before the face of my foolishness.
37:7 I have become miserable, and I have been bent down, even to the end. * I have walked with contrition all day long.
37:8 For my loins have been filled with illusions, * and there is no health in my flesh.
37:9 I have been afflicted and greatly humbled. * I bellowed from the groaning of my heart.
37:10 O Lord, all my desire is before you, * and my groaning before you has not been hidden.
37:11 My heart has been disturbed. My strength has abandoned me, * and the light of my eyes has abandoned me, and it is not with me.
37:12 My friends and my neighbors * have drawn near and stood against me.
37:12 And those who were next to me stood far apart. * And those who sought my soul used violence.
37:13 And those who sought evil accusations against me were speaking emptiness. * And they practiced deceitfulness all day long.
37:14 But, like someone deaf, I did not hear. * And I was like someone mute, not opening his mouth.
37:15 And I became like a man who does not hear, * and who has no reproofs in his mouth.
37:16 For in you, Lord, I have hoped. * You will listen to me, O Lord my God.
37:17 For I said, “Lest at any time, my enemies might rejoice over me,” * and, “While my feet are being shaken, they have spoken great things against me.”
37:18 For I have been prepared for scourges, * and my sorrow is ever before me.
37:19 For I will announce my iniquity, * and I will think about my sin.
37:20 But my enemies live, and they have been stronger than me. * And those who have wrongfully hated me have been multiplied.
37:21 Those who render evil for good have dragged me down, * because I followed goodness.
37:22 Do not forsake me, O Lord my God. * Do not depart from me.
37:23 Be attentive to my help, * O Lord, the God of my salvation.
The Gloria is omitted
Ant. They used violence who sought my soul.
Ant. Let them be confounded * and put to shame, who seek my soul to take it away.
Psalm 39 [5]
39:2 I have waited expectantly for the Lord, * and he was attentive to me.
39:3 And he heard my prayers * and he led me out of the pit of misery and the quagmire.
39:3 And he stationed my feet upon a rock, * and he directed my steps.
39:4 And he sent a new canticle into my mouth, * a song to our God.
39:4 Many will see, and they will fear; * and they will hope in the Lord.
39:5 Blessed is the man whose hope is in the name of the Lord, * and who has no respect for vanities and absurd falsehoods.
39:6 You have accomplished your many wonders, O Lord my God, * and there is no one similar to you in your thoughts.
39:6 I have announced and I have spoken: * they are multiplied beyond number.
39:7 Sacrifice and oblation, you did not want. * But you have perfected ears for me.
39:7 Holocaust and sin offering, you did not require. * Then I said, “Behold, I draw near.”
39:8 At the head of the book, it has been written of me: that I should do your will. * My God, I have willed it. And your law is in the midst of my heart.
39:10 I have announced your justice in a great Church: * behold, I will not restrain my lips. O Lord, you have known it.
39:11 I have not concealed your justice within my heart. * I have spoken your truth and your salvation.
39:11 I have not concealed your mercy and your truth * from a great assembly.
39:12 O Lord, do not take your tender mercies far from me. * Your mercy and your truth ever sustain me.
39:13 For evils without number have surrounded me. * My iniquities have taken hold of me, and I was not able to see.
39:13 They have been multiplied beyond the hairs of my head. * And my heart has forsaken me.
39:14 Be pleased, O Lord, to rescue me. * Look down, O Lord, to help me.
39:15 Let them together be confounded and awed, who seek after my soul * to steal it away.
39:15 Let them be turned back and be in awe, * who wish evils upon me.
39:16 Let them bear their confusion all at once, * who say to me, “Well, well.”
39:17 Let all who seek you exult and rejoice over you. * And let those who love your salvation always say, “May the Lord be magnified.”
39:18 But I am a beggar and poor. * The Lord has been concerned about me.
39:18 You are my helper and my protector. * My God, do not delay.
The Gloria is omitted
Ant. Let them be confounded and put to shame, who seek my soul to take it away.
Ant. Strangers * rose up against me, and the mighty sought my soul.
Psalm 53 [6]
53:3 Save me, O God, by your name, * and judge me in your virtue.
53:4 O God, listen to my prayer. * Pay attention to the words of my mouth.
53:5 For strangers have risen up against me, and the strong have sought my soul. * And they have not set God before their eyes.
53:6 For behold, God is my helper, * and the Lord is the protector of my soul.
53:7 Turn back the evils upon my adversaries, * and ruin them by your truth.
53:8 I will freely sacrifice to you, * and I will confess your name, O God, because it is good.
53:9 For you have quickly rescued me from all tribulation, * and my eye has looked down upon my enemies.
The Gloria is omitted
Ant. Strangers rose up against me, and the mighty sought my soul.
℣ Unjust witnesses have risen up against me.
℟ And iniquity has lied to itself.
The Our Father is said entirely in silence.
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name: thy kingdom come: thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread: and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us: and lead us not into temptation: but deliver us from evil. Amen.
Lesson 4
From the Treatise of Saint Augustine the Bishop on the Psalms
On Psalm 63, verse 2
You have protected me, O God, from the assembly of the malignant, from the multitude of those who work iniquity. Let us now look at our very Head. Many Martyrs have suffered such things, but nothing shines so brightly as the Head of the Martyrs: there we better contemplate what they experienced. He was protected from the multitude of the malignant, by God protecting him, by the Son himself protecting his own flesh, and the man whom he bore — for he is both Son of man and Son of God. Son of God, by reason of the form of God; Son of man, by reason of the form of a servant, having the power to lay down his soul and to take it up again. What could his enemies do to him? They killed the body; they did not kill the soul. Pay heed. Therefore, it was too little for the Lord to exhort the Martyrs by word, unless he confirmed them by example.
℟ You came out as against a robber, with swords and clubs to seize me:
* Daily I was with you in the temple teaching, and you did not lay hold of me: and behold, you lead me, scourged, to be crucified.
℣ And when they had laid hands on Jesus and seized him, he said to them.
℟ Daily I was with you in the temple teaching, and you did not lay hold of me: and behold, you lead me, scourged, to be crucified.
Lesson 5
You know what assembly of the malicious Jews it was, and what was the multitude of those working iniquity. What iniquity? Because they wanted to kill the Lord Jesus Christ. So many good works, he says, have I shown you: for which of these do you wish to kill me? He bore with all their infirm ones, healed all their sick, preached the kingdom of heaven, did not keep silent about their vices — so that the vices themselves, rather than the physician by whom they were healed, might displease them. Ungrateful for all these healings of his, like those raving with a great fever, raging against the physician who had come to heal them, they devised a plan to destroy him: as though wishing to prove thereby whether he was truly a man who could die, or something above man who would not allow himself to die. We recognize their very words in the Wisdom of Solomon: With a most shameful death, they say, let us condemn him. Let us question him: for there will be regard for his words. For if he is truly the Son of God, let God deliver him.
℟ Darkness fell when the Jews crucified Jesus: and about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice: My God, why have you forsaken me?
* And bowing his head, he gave up his spirit.
℣ Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said: Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.
℟ And bowing his head, he gave up his spirit.
Lesson 6
They have sharpened their tongues like swords. Let the Jews not say: We did not kill Christ. For this reason they handed him over to the judge Pilate, so that they themselves might seem innocent of his death. For when Pilate said to them, 'You put him to death,' they answered: 'It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death.' They wished to cast the guilt of their crime upon a human judge; but were they deceiving God as judge? What Pilate did, in the very doing of it, he had some part in; but in comparison with them he was far more innocent. For he pressed as much as he could to free him from their hands; and for this reason he brought him out scourged before them — not to persecute the Lord by scourging, but wishing to satisfy their fury, so that they might relent and cease to wish him killed when they saw him flogged. He did this also. But when they persisted, you know that he washed his hands and said that he himself had not done it, that he was innocent of his death. Yet he did it nonetheless. But if he is guilty because he acted even under compulsion, are they innocent who forced him to act? In no way. Rather, he pronounced sentence against him and ordered him to be crucified, and in this sense he himself killed him; and you, O Jews, killed him. How did you kill him? With the sword of the tongue: for you sharpened your tongues. And when did you strike, if not when you cried out: 'Crucify him, crucify him'?
℟ My beloved soul I delivered into the hands of the wicked, and my inheritance became to me as a lion in the forest: the adversary raised his voice against me, saying: Gather together, and hasten to devour him: they placed me in the desert of solitude, and all the earth mourned over me:
* Because there was none found who would acknowledge me, and do good.
℣ Men without mercy rose up against me, and they did not spare my soul.
℟ Because there was none found who would acknowledge me, and do good.
The Gloria is omitted
℟ My beloved soul I delivered into the hands of the wicked, and my inheritance became to me as a lion in the forest: the adversary raised his voice against me, saying: Gather together, and hasten to devour him: they placed me in the desert of solitude, and all the earth mourned over me: * Because there was none found who would acknowledge me, and do good.
Nocturn III
Ant. From those who rise up against me * deliver me, O Lord, for they have taken hold of my soul.
Psalm 58 [7]
58:2 Rescue me from my enemies, my God, * and free me from those who rise up against me.
58:3 Rescue me from those who work iniquity, * and save me from men of blood.
58:4 For behold, they have seized my soul. * The strong have rushed upon me.
58:5 And it is neither my iniquity, nor my sin, O Lord. * I have run and gone directly, without iniquity.
58:6 Rise up to meet me, and see: * even you, O Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel.
58:6 Reach out to visit all nations. * Do not take pity on all those who work iniquity.
58:7 They will return toward evening, and they will suffer hunger like dogs, * and they will wander around the city.
58:8 Behold, they will speak with their mouth, and a sword is in their lips: * “For who has heard us?”
58:9 And you, O Lord, will laugh at them. * You will lead all the Gentiles to nothing.
58:10 I will guard my strength toward you, for you are God, my supporter. * My God, his mercy will precede me.
58:12 God will oversee my enemies for me. Do not slay them, * lest at times my people may forget them.
58:12 Scatter them by your virtue. * And depose them, O Lord, my protector,
58:13 by the offense of their mouth and by the speech of their lips. * And may they be caught in their arrogance.
58:13 And, for their cursing and lying, they will be made known at the consummation, * in the fury of the consummation, and so they will be no more.
58:14 And they will know that God will rule over Jacob, * even to the ends of the earth.
58:15 They will return toward evening, and they will suffer hunger like dogs, * and they will wander around the city.
58:16 They will be dispersed in order to gnaw, * and truly, when they will not have been satisfied, they will murmur.
58:17 But I will sing your strength, * and I will extol your mercy, in the morning.
58:17 For you have been my supporter * and my refuge in the day of my tribulation.
58:18 To you, my helper, I will sing psalms. For you are God, my supporter. * My God is my mercy.
The Gloria is omitted
Ant. From those who rise up against me deliver me, O Lord, for they have taken hold of my soul.
Ant. You have put my acquaintances * far from me: I was given over, and did not go forth.
Psalm 87 [8]
87:2 O Lord, God of my salvation: * I have cried out, day and night, in your presence.
87:3 Let my prayer enter in your sight. * Incline your ear to my petition.
87:4 For my soul has been filled with evils, * and my life has drawn near to Hell.
87:5 I am considered to be among those who will descend into the pit. * I have become like a man without assistance, idle among the dead.
87:6 I am like the wounded sleeping in sepulchers, whom you no longer remember, * and who have been repelled by your hand.
87:7 They have lain me in the lower pit: * in dark places and in the shadow of death.
87:8 Your fury has been confirmed over me. * And you have brought all your waves upon me.
87:9 You have sent my acquaintances far from me. * They have set me as an abomination to themselves.
87:9 I was handed over, yet I did not depart. * My eyes languished before destitution.
87:10 All day long, I cried out to you, O Lord. * I stretched out my hands to you.
87:11 Will you perform wonders for the dead? * Or will physicians raise to life, and so confess to you?
87:12 Could anyone declare your mercy in the sepulcher, * or your truth from within perdition?
87:13 Will your wonders be known in the darkness, * or your justice in the land of oblivion?
87:14 And I have cried out to you, O Lord, * and in early morning, my prayer will come before you.
87:15 Lord, why do you reject my prayer? * Why do you turn your face away from me?
87:16 I am poor, and I have been amid hardships from my youth. * And, though I have been exalted, I am humbled and disturbed.
87:17 Your wrath has crossed into me, * and your terrors have disturbed me.
87:18 They have surrounded me like water, all day long. * They have surrounded me, all at once.
87:19 Friend and neighbor, * and my acquaintances, you have sent far away from me, away from misery.
The Gloria is omitted
Ant. You have put my acquaintances far from me: I was given over, and did not go forth.
Ant. They will lie in wait * against the soul of the just, and condemn innocent blood.
Psalm 93 [9]
93:1 The Lord is the God of retribution. * The God of retribution acts in order to deliver.
93:2 Lift yourself up, for you judge the earth. * Repay the arrogant with retribution.
93:3 How long will sinners, O Lord, * how long will sinners glory?
93:4 How long will they utter and speak iniquity? * How long will all who work injustice speak out?
93:5 They have humiliated your people, O Lord, * and they have harassed your inheritance.
93:6 They have executed the widow and the new arrival, * and they have slaughtered the orphan.
93:7 And they have said, “The Lord will not see, * nor will the God of Jacob understand.”
93:8 Understand, you senseless ones among the people. * And be wise at last, you foolish ones.
93:9 He who formed the ear, will he not hear? * And he who forged the eye, does he not look closely?
93:10 He who chastises nations, * he who teaches man knowledge, will he not rebuke?
93:11 The Lord knows the thoughts of men: * that these are in vain.
93:12 Blessed is the man whom you will instruct, O Lord. * And you will teach him from your law.
93:13 So may you soothe him from the evil days, * until a pit may be dug for sinners.
93:14 For the Lord will not drive away his people, * and he will not abandon his inheritance,
93:15 even until the time when justice is being converted into judgment, * and when those who are close to justice are all those who are upright of heart.
93:16 Who will rise up with me against the malignant? * Or who will stand with me against the workers of iniquity?
93:17 Except that the Lord assisted me, * my soul almost would have dwelt in Hell.
93:18 If ever I said, “My foot is slipping,” * then your mercy, O Lord, assisted me.
93:19 According to the multitude of my sorrows in my heart, * your consolations have given joy to my soul.
93:20 Does the seat of iniquity adhere to you, * you who contrive hardship within a commandment?
93:21 They will hunt down the soul of the just, * and they will condemn innocent blood.
93:22 And the Lord has been made into a refuge for me, * and my God into the assistance of my hope.
93:23 And he will repay them their iniquity, and he will destroy them in their malice. * The Lord our God will utterly destroy them.
The Gloria is omitted
Ant. They will lie in wait against the soul of the just, and condemn innocent blood.
℣ They spoke against me with a deceitful tongue.
℟ And with words of hatred they surrounded me, and fought against me without cause.
The Our Father is said entirely in silence.
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name: thy kingdom come: thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread: and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us: and lead us not into temptation: but deliver us from evil. Amen.
Lesson 7
From the Epistle of the blessed Apostle Paul to the Hebrews
Heb 4:11-15
11 Therefore, let us hasten to enter into that rest, so that no one may fall into the same example of unbelief.
12 For the Word of God is living and effective: more piercing than any two-edged sword, reaching to the division even between the soul and the spirit, even between the joints and the marrow, and so it discerns the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
13 And there is no created thing that is invisible to his sight. For all things are naked and open to the eyes of him, about whom we are speaking.
14 Therefore, since we have a great High Priest, who has pierced the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, we should hold to our confession.
15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to have compassion on our infirmities, but rather one who was tempted in all things, just as we are, yet without sin.
℟ They delivered me into the hands of the wicked, and cast me among the unjust, and they spared not my soul: the mighty gathered against me:
* And like giants they stood against me.
℣ Strangers rose up against me, and the mighty sought my soul.
℟ And like giants they stood against me.
Lesson 8
Heb 4:16; 5:1-3
16 Therefore, let us go forth with confidence toward the throne of grace, so that we may obtain mercy, and find grace, in a helpful time.
1 For every high priest, having been taken from among men, is appointed on behalf of men toward the things which pertain to God, so that he may offer gifts and sacrifices on behalf of sins;
2 He is able to commiserate with those who are ignorant and who wander astray, because he himself is also encompassed by infirmity.
3 And because of this, he also must make such offerings for sins even for himself, in the same manner as for the people.
℟ The wicked handed Jesus over to the chief priests and the elders of the people:
* but Peter followed him from afar, to see the end.
℣ They brought him to Caiaphas the chief priest, where the scribes and Pharisees had gathered.
℟ but Peter followed him from afar, to see the end.
Lesson 9
Heb 5:4-10
4 Neither does anyone take up this honor himself, but rather he who is called by God, just as Aaron was.
5 Thus, even Christ did not glorify himself, so as to become High Priest, but instead, it was God who said to him: “You are my Son. Today I have begotten you.”
6 And similarly, he says in another place: “You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.”
7 It is Christ who, in the days of his flesh, with a strong cry and tears, offered prayers and supplications to the One who was able to save him from death, and who was heard because of his reverence.
8 And although, certainly, he is the Son of God, he learned obedience by the things that he suffered.
9 And having reached his consummation, he was made, for all who are obedient to him, the cause of eternal salvation,
10 Having been called by God to be the High Priest, according to the order of Melchizedek.
℟ My eyes have grown dim from weeping: because he who comforted me is gone far from me: See, all you peoples,
* If there is any sorrow like my sorrow.
℣ O all you that pass by the way, attend and see.
℟ If there is any sorrow like my sorrow.
The Gloria is omitted
℟ My eyes have grown dim from weeping: because he who comforted me is gone far from me: See, all you peoples, * If there is any sorrow like my sorrow.
The rest is omitted unless Lauds is said separately.
Oratio
Réspice, quǽsumus, Dómine, super hanc famíliam tuam, pro qua Dóminus noster Jesus Christus non dubitávit mánibus tradi nocéntium, et crucis subíre torméntum:
Et sub silentio concluditur
Qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
℟ Amen.
Look, we pray, O Lord, upon this your family, for whom our Lord Jesus Christ did not hesitate to be handed over to the power of evildoers and to undergo the torment of the Cross.
And it is concluded in silence
Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever.
℟ Amen.