Feria Sexta in Parasceve ~ Feria privilegiata

 Fri, 4/18/25:

Today is Good Friday 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, as the 1960 Code of Rubrics does not permit Lauds to be anticipated. All else is as under 1954 above.

Vespers: Of Good Friday. Violet. Proper psalms and antiphons. All else from the proper. Omit chapter and hymn. Proper Magnificat antiphon. Collect Concede, quaesumus. No conclusion to the office. Proper Compline, beginning immediately with the Confiteor and absolution. Antiphon Christus factus est after the Nunc dimittis. No Marian antiphon after the oration. When recited in choir, the altar candles are not lit and all psalms, etc. are recited without chant. Under 1954, Tenebrae (Matins and Lauds of Holy Saturday) is chanted in choir immediately after Compline, using the same ceremonies as on the previous night; under 1962, Tenebrae of Holy Saturday must be conducted on Saturday morning.

Under the 1962 rubrics, those who are bound to recite the Office are not obliged to say Vespers if they assist at today's solemn afternoon liturgical action (see below). (Source: LB236 on Twitter/X.)

Let us pray.

D. Let us kneel.
℟. Arise.
O God, from whom Judas received the punishment of his guilt, and the thief the reward of his confession: grant unto us the full fruit of Thy clemency; that even as in His Passion, our Lord Jesus Christ gave to each a retribution according to his merits, so having taken away our old sins, He may bestow upon us the grace of His Resurrection. Who with Thee liveth and reigneth in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.

Lesson from the book of Lamentations

Lam 2:8-11
8 Heth. The Lord hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Sion: he hath stretched out his line, and hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: and the bulwark hath mourned, and the wall hath been destroyed together.
9 Teth. Her gates are sunk into the ground: he hath destroyed, and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more, and her prophets have found no vision from the Lord.
10 Jod. The ancients of the daughter of Sion sit upon the ground, they have held their peace: they have sprinkled their heads with dust, they are girded with haircloth, the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
11 Caph. My eyes have failed with weeping, my bowels are troubled: my liver is poured out upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people, when the children, and the sucklings, fainted away in the streets of the city.
Jerusalem! Jerusalem! Return unto the Lord thy God.