Audient verba mea quem statuerunt mihi;

quoniam
niam potuerunt.
Sicut crassitudo terræ
erupta est super terram.
Dissipata sunt ossa
nostra secus infernum; *
quia ad te, Domine, Do-
mine, oculi mei; in te
speravi, non auferas ani-

et a scandalis operantiuminiquitatem,

Cadent in reticulo ejus peccatores; *singulariter sum ego donec transeam. Ant. Custodi me, &c. Ant. Considerabam ad dexteram; et videban? et non erat qui cognosces ret me.

cxli.

VOCE mea ad Domi- non erat qui requirat øns nui clamavi: vo mam meam.

ce mea ad Dominum de-
precatus sum:
Effundo in conspectu
ejus orationem meam,
et tribulationem meam
ante ipsum pronuntio;

In deficiendo ex me spiritum meum: *et tus cognovisti semitas meas. msin via hao, quan ambulabamy absconderunt superbi laqueum mihi.

Considerabam ad dex teram et videbam; et non erat qui cognos

ceret me.

*

Periit fuga a me, * et

Clamavi ad te, Domi

ne, * dixi: tu spea mea, portio mea in terra viventium.

*

Intende ad deprecationem meam; quia hu miliatus sum nimis.

Liberar me an perse quentibus me; quiaconfortati sunt super me

Educ de custodia: ani mam meam ad confitendum nomini tuo; *me expectant justi donge retribuas mihi

90.

Ant. Considerabam ad

dexteram. &et

At the Magnificat.

Ant. Conantibus au- V. Christus

tem illis accepit Jesus est pro

nobis

panem, et benedixit act

ens

usque ad

fregit, deditque discipulis tem.

Magnificat anima chio suo dispersit enperbos mente cordis sulp Deposuit potentes de sede; et exaltavit bus miles.

Here all kneel, and say, Our Father, &c. in sec

Ps. 1.

Tibi soli peccavi, et et exultabunt ossa humi

malum coram te feci;
ut justificeris in sermoni-
bus tuis, et vinca, cum
judicaris

et os meum

"rectum in et spiritum annuntiabit laudem tume mundum crea inaperies:

Deus;

bus meis.

in visceri

Ne projicias me a facie tua; et spiritum sanc*tum tuum ne auferas a

me. **Redde mihi lætitiam salutaris tui; et spiritu principali confirma me. Docebo iniquos vias tuas; et impii ad te

-convertentur.

Liberá me de sanguinibus, Deus, Deus, salutis meæ ; * et exaltabit lingua **tuam.

mea

Dornine,

justitiam

am.

Quoniam si voluisses sacriticium, dedissem utique; holocaustis non delectaberis.

cor

Sacrificium Deo spiritus contribulatus ; contritum et humiliatum, Deus, non despicies. ----5 Benigne fac Domine, in bona voluntate tua Sion; * ut ædificentur muri Jerusalem.

obia

Tunc acceptabis sacrificium justitiæ, tiones et holocausta; tunc imponent super al

labia mea, tare tuum vitulos.

PRAYER. Respice.-Look down, page 270.

MASS of the PRESANCTIFIED.

The Priest (with his Ministers, having for some time lain prostrate in the sanctuary, in silent prayer) he arises and goes up and kisses the middle of the altar: then a Reader begins the Lessons, in an audible voice, without any title, whilst the Priest reads them at the same time, in a low voice, at the Epistle side of the altar.

I. LESSON. Osee vi. 1. 6.--Thus saith the Lord: In their affliction they will rise early to me: Come, and let us return to the Lord. For he hath taken us, and he will heal us: he will strike, and he will

*

eure us. He will revive after two days: on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. We shall know and we shall follow on, that we may know the Lord. His going forth is prepared as the morning light, and he will come to us as the early and the latter rain to the earth. What shall I do to thee, O Ephraim? what shall I do to thee, O Juda? Your mercy is as a morning cloud, and as the dew that goeth away in the morning. For this reason have I hewed them by the prophets, I have slain them by the words of my mouth and thy judgments shall go forth as the light. For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than holocausts.

TRACT. Habac. i.-Domine, audivi auditionem tuam, et timui: consideravi opera tua, et expavi. Lord, I have heard thy works, and was afraid: I considered thy works, and trembled. V. Thou wilt appear between two animals; when the years draw near, thou wilt be known; when the time shall come, thou wilt be shewn. V. When my

soul shall be in trouble, even in thy wrath thou wilt remember thy mercy. God will come from Libanus, and the Holy One from the dark mountain. V. His majesty hath clouded the heavens; and the earth is full of his praise.

Flectamus genua

R. Levate.

Let us pray.

Let us kneel down.
R. Stand up again.

COLLECT. Deus, a quo, as p. 271.

II. LESSON. Exod. xii. 1. 11.-In those days: The Lord said to Moses, and Aaron in the land of Egypt: This month shall be to you the beginning of months: it shall be the first in the months of the year. Speak ye to the whole assembly of the children of Israel, and say to them: On the tenth day of this month let every man take a lamb by their families and houses. But if the number be

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less than may suffice to eat the lamb, he shall take usto him his neighbour that joineth to his house, according to the number of souls which may be enough to eat the lamb. And it shall be a lamb without blemish, a male of one year; according to which rite also he shall kill a kid. And you shall keep it unto the fourteenth day of this month: and the whole multitude of the children of Israel shall sacrifice it in the evening. And they shall take of the blood thereof, and put it upon both the sideposts, and on the upper door posts of the houses, wherein they shall eat it. And they shall eat the flesh that night roasted at the fire, and unleavened bread, with wild lettuce. You shall not eat thereof any thing raw, nor boiled in water, but only roasted at the fire: you shall eat the head with the feet and entrails thereof. Neither shall there remain any thing of it until morning. If there be any thing left, you shall burn it with fire.

And

thus you shall eat it: you shall gird your reins, and you shall have shoes on your feet, holding staves in your hands, and you shall eat in haste: for it is the Phase (that is the passage) of the Lord.

TRACT. Ps. cxxxix.-Eripe me, Domine, ah homine malo: a viro iniquo libera me, &c.

Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil man: rescue me from the unjust man. V. Who have devised iniquities in their hearts: all the day long they designed battles. V. They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent: the venom of asps is under their lips. V. Keep me, O Lord, from the hand of the wicked and from unjust men deliver me. V. Who have proposed to supplant my steps; the proud have hid a net for me. V. And they have stretched out cords for a share: they have laid for me a stumbling block by the way side. V. I said to the Lord; thou art my God; hear, O Lord, the voice of my supplication. F. O Lord, Lord the might of my salva