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passed by, blasphemed him, wagging their heads, and saying: Vah, thou that destroyest the temple of God, and in three days dost rebuild it, save thy own self: if thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross. In like manner also the chief priests, with the scribes and ancients, mocking, said: He saved others; himself he cannot save: if he be the king of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him. He trusted in God: let him now deliver him, if he will have him: for he said: I am the Son of God. And the self same thing the thieves also that were crucified with him, reproached him with. Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over the whole earth, until the ninth hour. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying: Eli, Eli, lamma sabacthani ? that is, " my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" And some that stood there and heard, said: This man calleth Elias. And immediately one of them running, took a sponge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink. And the others said: let us see whether Elias will come and deliver him. And Jesus again crying with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. *And behold the veil of the temple was rent in two from the top even to the bottom, and the earth quaked, and the rocks were rent. And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints that had slept arose. And coming out of the tombs after his resurrection, came into the holy city and appeared to many. Now the Centurion, and they that were with him watching Jesus, having seen the earthquake and the things that were done, were sore afraid, saying: Indeed this was the Son of God. And there were there many women afar off who had followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him: among whom was Mary Magdalen, and Mary the mother of James * Here all kneel, and panse.

and Joseph, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee. And when it was evening, there came a certain rich man of Arimathea, named Joseph, who also himself was a disciple of Jesus. He went to Pilate, and asked the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded that the body should be delivered. And Joseph taking the body, wrapped it up in a clean linen cloth, and laid it in his own new monument, which he had hewed out in a rock. And he rolled a great stone to the door of the monument, and went his way. And there was there Mary Magdalen, and the other Mary sitting over against the sepulchre.

Here the Priest says, Cleanse my heart, &c. p. xx. AND the next day, which followed the day of preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees came together to Pilate, saying: Sir, we have remembered, that that seducer said, while he was yet alive: After three days I will rise again. Command therefore the sepulchre to be guarded until the third day lest perhaps his disciples come and steal him away, and say to the people he is risen from the dead and the last error shall be worse than the first. Pilate said to them: You have a guard; go, guard it as you know. And they departing, made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting guards.

OFFERT. Ps. lxviii.-My heart hath expected reproach and misery: and I looked for one that would grieve together with me; but there was none: and for one that would comfort me, and I found none: they gave me gall for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

SECRET. Grant, we beseech thee, O Lord, that what hath been offered in the presence of thy divine Majesty may procure us the grace of devotion, and effectually obtain a blessed eternity. Thro'.

COMM. Matt. xxvi.-Father, if this cup cannot pass away, but I must drink it, thy will be done,

P. COMM. Per hujus.-May our vices, O Lord, be destroyed, and our righteous desires fulfilled by the efficacy of these mysteries. Thro'.

In private Masses, the Gospel Matt. xxi. (as above in the blessing of the Palms, p. 232,) is here read instead of the ordinary Gospel, John i.

p. xlv.

MONDAY IN HOLY WEEK. INTROIT. Ps. xxxiv.-Judge thou, O Lord, them that wrong me; overthrow them that fight against me: Take hold of arms and shield, and rise up to help me, O Lord, my mighty Saviour. Ps. Bring out the sword, and shut up the way against them that persecute me; say to my soul, I am thy salvation. Judge thou, O Lord, &c. to Ps.

COLLECT. Da, quæsumus.-Grant, we beseech thee, O Almighty God, that we, who through our weakness, faint under so many adversities, may recover by the passion of thy only begotten Son. Who, with thee and the Holy Ghost, liveth, &c.

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LESSON. Is. 1. 5. 10.-In those days: Isaias said: The Lord God hath opened my ear, and I do not resist I have not gone back. I have given my body to the strikers, and my cheeks to them that plucked them: I have not turned away my face from them that rebuked me, and spit upon me. The Lord God is my helper, therefore am I not confounded. He is near that justifieth me, who will contend with me? let us stand together. Who is my adversary? let him come near to me. Behold the Lord God is my helper: who is he that shall condemn me? Lo, they shall all be destroyed as a garment, the moth shall eat them up. Who is there among you that feareth the Lord, that heareth the voice of his servant, that hath walked in dark ness, and hath no light? let him hope in the name of the Lord, and lean upon his God.

GRAD. (Ps. xxxiv.-Arise, O Lord, be attentive

to my trial; my God and my Lord, undertake my cause. V. Draw thy sword, and stop those that are in pursuit of me.

TRACT. Ps. ci-Deal not, p. 117.

GOSPEL. John xii. 1. 9.-Now Jesus, six days before the pasch, came to Bethania, where Lazarus had been dead, whom Jesus raised to life. And they made him a supper there; and Martha served, but Lazarus was one of them that were at table with him. Mary therefore took a pound of ointment of right spikenard, of great price, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment. Then one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, he that was about to betray him, said: Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor? Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the purse carried the things that were put therein. Jesus therefore said: Let her alone, that she may keep it against the day of my burial, for the poor you have always with you; but me you have not always. A great multitude therefore of the Jews knew that he was there; and they came not for Jesus's sake only, but that they might see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.

OFFERT. Ps. cxliii.-Deliver me from my enemies, O Lord: to thee have I fled, teach me to do thy will; because thou art my God,

SECRET. Grant, O Almighty God, that being purified by the powerful virtue of this sacrifice, we may arrive with greater purity to the author and institutor thereof. Thro'.

COMM. Ps. xxxiv.--Let them blush and be ashamed, who rejoice at my misfortunes; let them be covered with shame and confusion, who speak maliciously against me.

P. COMM. Præbeant.-Let thy holy mysteries,

O Lord, inspire us with divine fervour: that we may delight both in their effect and celebration. Thro'. Let us pray. Bow down your heads to God.

PRAYER. Adjuva.-Help us, O God, our salvation; and grant that we may celebrate with joy the inemory of these benefits, by which thou hast been pleased to redeem us. Thro'.

TUESDAY.

INTROIT. Gal. vi.-We ought to glory in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ: in whom is our salvation, life, and resurrection; by whom we have been saved and delivered. Ps. lxvi. May God have mercy on us, and bless us; may his countenance shine upon us, and may he have mercy on us. We ought, &c. to Ps.

COLLECT. Omnipotens.-O' Almighty and everlasting God, grant that we may so celebrate the mysteries of our Lord's passion, as to obtain thy pardon. Through the same.

LESSON. Jer. xi. 18. 20.--In those days: Jeremias said: Thou, O Lord, hath shewed me, and I have known: then thou shewdst me their doings. And I was as a meek lamb, that is carried to be a victim and I knew not that they had devised counsels against me, saying: Let us put wood on his bread, and cut him off from the land of the living, and let his name be remembered no more. But thou, O Lord of Sabaoth. who judgest justly, and triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy revenge on them for to thee I have revealed my cause.

GRAD. Ps. xxxiv.-When they were troublesome to me, I cloathed myself with hair-cloth, and I humbled my soul with fasting; and I will yet continue to pour forth my prayer in my bosom. V. Judge thou, O Lord, them that wrong me: overthrow thein that fight against me: take hold of arms and shield; and rise to help me.

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