Feria Quinta in Cena Domini ~ Feria privilegiata

Ultima Cena, Juan de Juana’s, Museo del Prado 

Thurs, 4/17/25:

Today is Maundy Thursday under the 1954 (double of the I class) and 1962 (I class) rubrics.

Office: Under the 1954 rubrics, when chanted in choir, Matins and Lauds were chanted last night during the Tenebrae service. The color for the Office is violet. When Prime and the hours are said in choir today, the psalms are not chanted; they are simply recited together. The hymns, chapters, preces, and suffrages are omitted, a living relic of the earliest form of the Office. No fourth psalm is added at Prime under 1954. Commemorations are not permitted in the Office or at Mass throughout the Triduum.

Under the 1962 rubrics, Tenebrae must be sung in choir today in the morning, unless the chrism Mass (see below) is celebrated in the morning in the local church, in which case Tenebrae was anticipated last night as is the traditional practice. All else is as under 1954 above. (Source LB236 on Twitter/x.)

Collect
℣. The Lord be with you.
℟. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
Dómine, Deus, qui in regenerándis plébibus tuis ministério úteris sacerdótum; tríbue nobis perseverántem in tua voluntáte famulátum; ut dono grátiæ tuæ, in diébus nostris, et méritis et número sacrátus tibi pópulus augeátur.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.

From the Treatise of St. Augustine, Bishop (of Hippo) Upon the Psalms
On Psalm liv, 1
Give ear to my prayer, O God, and despise not my supplication: attend unto me and hear me. These are the words of a man travailing, anxious, and troubled. He prayeth in the midst of much suffering, longing to be rid of his affliction. Our part is to see what that his affliction was, and when he hath told us, to acknowledge that we also suffer therefrom; that so, partaking in his trouble, we may take part also in his exercise, and am troubled. Wherein mourned he? Wherein was he troubled? He saith: In my exercise. In the next words he giveth us to know that his affliction was the oppression of the wicked, because of the voice of the enemy, and because of the oppression of the wicked, and this suffering which came upon him at the hands of wicked men, he hath called his exercise. Think not that wicked men are in this world for nothing, or that God doth no good with them. Every wicked man liveth, either to repent, or to exercise the righteous.

℟. Mine own friend hath betrayed Me by the sign of a kiss: Whomsoever I shall kiss, That Same is He; hold Him fast. This was the traitorous sign which he gave, even he who murdered with a kiss.
* Woe unto that man! He cast down the price of blood, and went, and hanged himself.
℣. It had been good for that man if he had not been born.
℟. Woe unto that man! He cast down the price of blood, and went, and hanged himself.

Prayer {from the Proper of the season}

Look down, we beseech thee, O Lord, on this thy family, for which our Lord Jesus Christ did not hesitate to be delivered up into the hands of wicked men, and to suffer the torment of the Cross.
Finish silently
Who with thee liveth and reigneth, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.