Antiphon 4. All mine enemies * have heard of my trouble, O Lord: they are glad that thou hast done it.
Antiphon 5. Bind the nations * of the heathen with chains, O Lord, and their princes with fetters.
Chapter Let us destroy, p. 724.
Hymn E.H. 96 Lustra sex, and Deliver me, p. 697.
On Benedictus, Antiphon. Simon, sleepest thou? * couldest not thou watch with me one hour? Then the Prayers, p.108.
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RANT, we beseech thee, almighty God: that we, who are continually afflicted by reason of our transgressions, may be delivered by the passion of thine only-begotten Son: Who liveth and reigneth with thee.
At the Hours, Antiphons from Lauds, the rest as in the Psalter. At Vespers, Antiphons and Psalms from the Psa1ter, p.118. Chapter But, O Lord of hosts, p. 724.
Hymn E.H. 94 Vexilla Regis, and Deliver me, p. 688.
On Magnificat, Antiphon. A maid said unto Peter: * Surely thou art one of them, for thy speech bewrayeth thee. Then the Prayers, p.217.
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LMIGHTY God, we beseech thee graciously to behold this thy family, for which our Lord Jesus Christ was contented to be betrayed, and given up into the hands of wicked men, and to suffer death upon the Cross: Who liveth and reigneth with thee.
¶ On the following three days, having said secretly Our Father, Hail, Mary and at Matins, and at the beginning of Prime I believe, all else being omitted, the Office is begun at once at Matins and Vespers from the Antiphon of the first Psalm: and the Antiphons are doubled, as on a Double Feast.
At the end of the Psalms Glory be to the Father is not said throughout all the Hours, nor in the and at the end of every Psalm at Matins, one is extin-guished of the fifteen candles placed in & triangular candelabrum before the Altar.
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IN THE FIRST NOCTURN
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Antiphon 1. Tone viij, 2.
The zeal of thine house hath even eaten me: and the rebukes of them that
rebuked thee are fallen upon me. Ps. 69 Salvum me fac, p. 142, ending, slower:
* and they that love his Name shall dwell therein. And the Antiphon is repeated. And the other Psalms in the Psalter on Thursday.
Antiphon 2. Tone viij, 2.
Let them be turned backward and put to confusion that seek to do me evil.
Psalm 70 Deus in adjutorium ending, slower: * O Lord, make no long tarrying.
Antiphon 3. Tone viij, 2.
Deliver me, O God., out of the hand of the ungodly. Psalm 71 In te, Domine,
speravi, ending, slower:
* for they are confounded, and brought unto shame, that seek to do me evil.
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* From this note marked with an asterisk begin verses II and following.
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Let them be turned backward and put to confusion. That seek to do me evil.
During this triduum after the of the Nocturn Our Father is said secretly. And lead us is not said aloud, nor is the Absolution said or the Blessings given before the Lessons. After the Lessons But thou is not said, but the first iij Lessons from Jeremiah are ended as below.
Here beginneth the Lamentation of Jeremiah the Prophet.
Lesson j Ch. 1:1-14
A- LEPH. How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she
become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among
the provinces, how is she become tributa - ry ! Beth. She weepeth sore in
the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; among all her lovers she hath none
to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are be-
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come her en - emies. Ghi - mel. Judah is gone into captivity, because of af-
fliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she
findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits. Daleth.
The ways of Sion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her
gates are desolate; her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bit-
terness. He. Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the
Lord hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are
gone into captivity before the en- em-y. Jerusalem, Jer-usalem, return unto the
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Lord thy God. Thus are ended the Lessons from the Lamentation during this Triduum.
I . Tone viij.
Upon the mount of Ol - ives he prayed to the Fath - er: Fath-
er, if it be pos - sible, let this cup pass from me: * The spirit indeed
is wil - ling but the flesh is weak. Watch and pray,
that ye enter not in-to temp- ta - tion. The spirit.
Lesson ij
VAU. From the daughter of Sion all her beauty is departed: her princes are
become like harts that find no pasture: and they are gone without strength be-
fore the pur-su-er. Za- in. Jer-usalem remembered in the days of her af-flic-
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-tion and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old,
when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the ad-
versaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths. Heth. Jerusalem hath grie-
vously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, be-
cause they have seen her nakedness; yea, she sigheth, and turneth back- ward.
Teth. Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; there-
fore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O Lord, behold my af-
fliction; for the enemy hath magnifi-ed him - self. Je-ru-salem, Je- rusalem,
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II. Tone viij.
My soul is exceeding sorrowful, ev- en un - to death; tar-
-ry ye here, and watch with me: now shall ye behold a multitude which will
come about me: * Ye will flee and forsake me, and I shall go
hence to be of - fered for you. Be - hold,
the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sin-
ners. Ye will flee.
Lesson iij
JOD. The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for
she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst com-
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mand that they should not enter into thy congrega - tion. Caph. All her
people sigh, they seek bread: they have given their pleasant things for meat to
relieve the soul: see, Lord, and con - sid-er; for I am become vile. La-med.
Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow
like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted
me in the day of his fierce anger. Mem. From above hath he sent fire into my
bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath
turned me back; he hath made me desolate and faint all the day. Nun. The
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yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand; they are wreathed, and come
up upon my neck; he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me
into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up. Jeru-salem, Je-rusalem,
return unto the Lord thy God.
III Tone v.
Behold we have seen him, and lo, he hath no form nor come- li-
ness; there is no beauty in him, that we should de - sire him: he hath
borne our sins and of-fen- ces, and for us he griev- eth: but he was
woun - ded for our trans-gres-sions, * And with his stripes
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we are healed. Sure- ly he hath borne our griefs, and
carried our sor- rows. And with. Behold to the
Antiphon 1 . IN THE SECOND NOCTURN Tone viij, 2.
The Lord hath delivered the poor when he cried: the needy also, and him that
hath no helper. Psalm 72 Deus, judicium tuum. LXXI, ending slowly:
* and all the earth shall be filled with his Majesty. Amen, Amen.
Antiphon 2 Tone viij, 2.
They imag-ine wick-edness, and speak of wicked blas-phemy: their talk - ing
is against the Most High. Psalm 73 Quam bonus Israel. LXXII, ending slowly:
* and to speak of all thy works in the gates of the daughter of Syon.
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Antiphon 3. Tone j, 1.
Arise, O Lord, and maintain my cause. Ps. 74 Ut quid, Deus ending slowly:
* the presumption of them that hate thee increaseth ever more and more.
Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the un-god- ly.
Out of the hand of the unrighteous and cru-el man.
Our Father, secretly.
From the Treatise of Saint Augustine the Bishop, on the Psalms.
Lesson iv On Psalm 55:1
'HEAR my prayer, O God: and hide not thyself from my petition. Take heed unto
me, and hear me.'
These are the words of an earnest and anxious man, beset by great trouble. He
* The punctum is sung thus. ** A monosyllabic word is sung thus.
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prayeth as one suffering much, and longing to be delivered from evil. It remaineth
for us to see in what evil he is: and when he beginneth to tell us, to acknowledge
that we also suffer therefrom: that sharing his trouble, we may join in his prayer.
'I mourn,' saith he, 'in my trial, and am vexed,' Wherein mourneth he? Wherein is
he vexed? He saith, 'In my tri-al,' He remembereth the wicked men whom he
suffereth, and that sufferance of evil men he calleth his trial. Think ye not that the
wicked are in this world for naught, and that God nowise doeth good through
them. Every wicked man either liveth that he may be made righteous; or else he
liveth that the righteous may be tried by him.
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IV Tone viij
Mine own familiar friend hath betrayed me by the sign of a kiss:
Whom-so-ever I shall kiss, that same is he; hold him fast: he
gave this wick- ed sig- nal, and so by a kiss accom-plished murder.
* Unhappy, he cast down the price of blood in the tem-ple, and departed,
and went and hanged him- self. It had been good for that man
if he had not been born. Unhappy.
Lesson v Tone as above, pp. 739-740.
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WOULD to God, therefore, that they who now try us might be converted, and tried together with us! Nevertheless, as long as they continue to try us, let us not hate them: for we know not whether any one of them will endure to the end in his wickedness. And for the most part, when thou deemest thyself to be hating thine enemy, thou hatest thy brother, and knowest it not. The devil and his angels are pointed out to us in the holy Scriptures as doomed unto fire everlasting. Of their amendment alone need we despair, against whom we wage a hidden strife; to which strife the Apostle armeth us, saying, 'We wrestle not against flesh and blood' (that is, not against men whom ye may see,) 'but against principalities,
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against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world.' He said not, 'the rulers of this world,' lest perchance thou shouldest deem that devils are the lords of heaven and earth: but he said, 'the rulers of the darkness of this world'; when he spake of the world, he meant the lovers of the world: ungodly and unrighteous men, he called the world: of that world he spake, whereof the Gospel saith, 'and the world knew him not'.
V Tone ij
Judas, most evil traf - ficker, sought to betray the Lord with a kiss:
he, as an in - no-cent lamb, refused not the kiss of Jud- as: *
For thir- ty pieces of sil - ver, he be-trayed Christ to the Jews. Bet-
ter were it for that man if he had not been born. For thirty.
Lesson vj Tone as above, pp. 739-740
F
OR I have spied unrighteousness and strife in the city.' Give heed unto the glory of the Cross itself. Now upon the brow of kings that Cross firmly resteth, which foes did once revile. Effect hath proven strength: it hath conquered the world not with the sword, but with wood. The wood of the Cross seemed worthy of scorn to his enemies, as they stood before that very wood, wagging their heads, and saying, 'If he be the Son of God, let him come down from the Cross! ' He stretched forth his hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people. If he is just which liveth by faith, he that hath not faith is unrighteous. What then he calleth unrighteousness, know thou to be unbelief. Therefore the Lord 'spied unrighteousness and strife in the city' and 'stretched forth his hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people': and yet, looking forth upon these very same,
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he said; 'Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.'
VI Tone viij
One of my dis- cip- les shall this day betray me: Woe un- to