what we have received with our mouths, we may also take with a pure mind; and that, of a temporal gift it may become to us an eternal remedy. Thro'.

Let us pray. Bow down your heads to God.

PRAYER. Esto. Be propitious, O Lord, we beseech thee, to thy people: that forsaking what displeaseth thee, they may find comfort in keeping thy law, Thro'.

The COMMEMORATION at VESPERS.

Anth. I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before, I suffer. V. and R. as above p. 296.

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Ant. Desiderio desideravi hoc Pascha manducare vobiscum antequam patiar. PRAYER.

FRIDAY.

Esto, as above.

MASS. INTROIT. Ps. 30.

AVE mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in distress; deliver me and rescue me from the hands of my enemies, and my pursuers; Lord, never let me be put to shame since I have called upon thee. Ps. In thee, O Lord, have I hoped; never let me be put to shame ; deliver me according to thy justice.

COLLECT. Cordibus nostris. Mercifully, O Lord, we beseech thee, pour forth thy grace into our hearts : that repressing our sins by voluntary mortifications, we may rather suffer for them in this life, than be condemned to eternal torments for them in the next.

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LESSON. Jer. xvii. 13. 18.

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N those days: Jeremias said; All that forsake thee, O Lord, shall be confounded, and they who depart from thee, shall be written in the earth; because they have abandoned the Lord, the fountain of living waters. Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved; for thou art my praise. Behold they say to me; Where is the word of the Lord? Let it come. And I have not been troubled, following thee my pastor neither have I desired the day of man; thou knowest it. That which came from my lips was right in thy sight. Be not a terror to me; thou art my hope in the day of affliction. May they be put to shame, who persecute me; but let me not be put to shame; let them be seized with dread; but let me not be seized with dread. Bring upon them the day of affliction, and with a double destruction overthrow them, O Lord our God.

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GRAD. Ps. 34. My enemies spoke peaceably to me; but in their anger they were troublesome to me. V. Thou hast seen it, O Lord, be not silent; abandon

me not.

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TRACT. Deal not, &c. as above, p. 212.

GOSPEL. John ii. 47. 54.

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T that time: The chief priests and Pharisees assembled in Council against Jesus, and said; What are we doing? for this man worketh many miracles; If we let him thus alone, all will believe in him and the Romans will come and destroy our place and nation. But one of them, named Caiphas, being high priest that year, said to them; You know nothing, nor do you consider that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, and not the whole nation perish. But this he spake not of himself; but being high priest that year, he prophesied, that Jesus was to die for the nation; and not for that nation only, but to gather together the children of God, who were dispersed every where. From that day therefore they resolved to put him to death, Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but retired to a country near the desert, to a city called Ephrem, and remained there with his disciples.

OFFERT. Ps. 118. Blessed art thou, O Lord, teach me thy law; and deliver me not up to the proud ones who calumniate me and I will give an answer to those who reproach me.

SECRET. Grant, O merciful God, that we may always worthily serve at thy altar, and obtain salvation by constantly partaking of what is offered thereon. Thro'.

COMM. Ps. 26. Deliver me not up, O Lord, to the will of my pursuers; for unjust witnesses have risen up against me, and iniquity hath belied itself.

POSTCOMM. Sumpti sacrificii. May the sacrifice, O Lord, we have partaken of, always protect us, and repel from us all that is hurtful. Thro'.

Let us pray. Bow down your heads to God.

PRAYER. Concede. Grant, we beseech thee, Q Almighty God, that we who seek the favour of thy protection, may be delivered from all evil, and serve thee with a secure mind. Thro.

The COMMEMORATION at VESPERS.

Anth. The chief priests consulted together how they might kill Jesus; but they said. Not on the feast-day, lest there should happen a tumult among the people.

Ant. Principes sacerdotum consilium fecerunt, ut Jesum occiderent: dicebant autem: Non in die festo, ne forte tumultus fieret in populo.

V. and R. as in p. 296. PRAYER. Concede.

On FRIDAY in PASSION WEEK is said the Office of the SEVEN DOLOURS of the B. V. MARY.

A greater Double.

MASS. INTROIT. John 19.

HERE stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Salome, and Mary Magdalen. V. Jesus said: Woman, behold thy son; and to his disciple: Behold thy mother. V. Glory.

Gloria in excelsis is said.

COLLECT. Deus, in cujus. O God, in whose passion, according to Simeon's prophecy, the sword of grief pierced the most sweet soul of glorious Mary, the Virgin-mother; grant, in thy mercy, that we, who with honour commemorate her sorrows and sufferings, may be helped by thy glorious merits and prayers of all the saints that faithfully stood by thy cross, so as to partake of the happy fruits of the passion. Who livest.

Then is made a Commemoration of Friday by the Collect. Cordibus nostris, as p. 310. As likewise by the Secret and Postcommunion in their respective proper places.

LESSON. Judith xiii 22.25.

HE Lord hath blessed thee with his power, who by

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thee hath brought our enemies to nothing. Thou art the blessed of the Lord the high God, above all women upon earth. Blessed be the Lord, who made heaven and earth, because he hath this day magnified thy name, that thy praise shall not depart out of the mouth of men, who shall remember the power of the Lord for ever; for that thou didst not spare thy life at the sight of the distress and tribulation of thy country, but hast helped to prevent their ruin in the sight of our God.

GRAD. Thou art overwhelmed with grief and in ears, O Virgin Mary, standing by the cross of our Lord, Jesus thy Son, thy Redeemer.

TRACT. Holy Mary, the Queen of heaven and Lady of the world, stood full of grief by the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. V. O all you that pass by the way, attend and see if there be any sorrow like unto mine.

The SEQUENCE or PROSE.

BENEATH the world's

redeeming wood

TABAT Mater doloro

STAR

sa

The most afflicted Mother Juxta crucem lacrymosa

stood,

Mingling her tears with

her Son's blood.

As that stream'd down

from ev'ry part,

Dum pendebat Filius.

Cujus animam gemen

tem,

Of all his wounds she felt Constristatam, & dolentem

the smart,

What pierc'd his body, pierc'd her heart.

Who can with tearless

eyes look on,

Pertransivit gladius.

O quam tristis & afflicta

When such a Mother such Fuit illa benedicta a Son,

Wounded and gasping, does Mater unigeniti ?