Prelude: Popule Meus - Victoria Popule meus, quid feci tibi? Aut in quo contristavi te? Responde mihi. Quia duxi te de terra Aegypti: parasti crucem Salvatori tuo.

Hagios ho Theos! Hagios Ischryos! Hagios Athanatos, eleison humas! My people, what have I done to you? Or in what have I grieved you? Answer me. For I led you out of the land of Egypt but you prepared a cross for your Savior. Oh Holy God! Oh Holy and Mighty One! Oh Holy and Immortal One, have mercy on us! + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + The enters from the in silence as the people stand. [kindly stand]

INTRODUCTORY RITES

Collect

“ Let us pray. Almighty ever-living God, who as an example of humility for the human race to follow caused our Savior to take flesh and submit to the Cross, graciously grant that we may heed his lesson of patient suffering and so merit a share in his Resurrection. Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever.

At the conclusion of the Opening Prayer Candle #1 is extinguished.

Psalmody Psalm 22

At the conclusion of Psalm 22 Candle #2 is extinguished. PSALM-PRAYER Psalmody Psalm 31

Grant, we pray, almighty God, that, though in our weakness we fail, we may be revived through the Passion of your Only Begotten Son. Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God for ever and ever. In you, O Lord, I take refuge. Let me never be put to shame. At the conclusion of the Psalm-Prayer Candle #3 is extinguished. In your justice, set me free. Into your hands I commend my spirit. You will redeem me, O Lord, motet Create in Me a Clean Heart Healy Willian O faithful God. Create in me a clean heart, O God and renew a right spirit within me. Because of all my foes I have become a reproach. Cast me not away from your presence, An object of scorn to my neighbors and of fear to my friends. and take not the Holy Spirit from me. Those who see me in the street flee from me. Restore unto me I am forgotten, like someone dead, the joy of Thy salvation, and have become like a broken vessel. and uphold me with The free Spirit. But as for me, I trust in you, O Lord; At the conclusion of Psalm 51 Candle #4 is extinguished. I say, “You are me God.

My lot is in your hands, deliver me from the hands of my enemies PSALM-PRAYER and those who pursue me.” Almighty ever-living God, grant us so to celebrate Let your face shine on your servant. the mysteries of the Lord’s Passion Save me in your merciful love. that we may merit to receive your . Be strong, let your heart take courage, Through our Lord Christ, your Son, all who hope in the Lord. who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. At the conclusion of Psalm 31 Candle #6 is extinguished.

At the conclusion of the Psalm-Prayer Candle #5 is extinguished. PSALM –PRAYER I: O God, who willed your Son to submit for our sake to the yoke of the Cross, [sung by the choir] In monte Oliveti Marc’Antonio Ingegneri so that you might drive from us the power of the enemy, grant us, your servants, to attain the grace of the resurrection. In Monte Oliveti, oravit ad Patrem: On the Mount of Olives, he prayed to the Father. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, Pater, si fieri potest Father, if it be possible, one God for ever and ever. transeat a me calyx iste: let this cup pass from me; spiritus quidem promptus est, The spirit indeed is willing, caro autem infirma. but the flesh is weak. At the conclusion of the Psalm-Prayer Candle #7 is extinguished.

Vigilate et orate Be vigilant and pray Lamentations I ut non intretis is tentationem. that you may not enter into temptation.

Here begins the Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet Spiritus quidem promptus est, The spirit is willing, ALEPH. caro autrm infirma. but the flesh is weak. How lonely she is now, the once crowded city! Widowed is she who was mistress over nations; At the conclusion of Responsory I Candle #9 is extinguished. the princess among the provinces has been made a toiling slave. Lamentations II BETH. VAU. Bitterly she weeps at night, tears upon her cheeks, Gone from daughter Zion is all her glory; with not one to console her of all her dear ones; her princes are like rams that find no pasture. her friends have all betrayed her and become her enemies. They have gone off without strength before their captors. GHIMEL. ZAIN. Judah has fled into exile from oppression and cruel slavery; is mindful of the days of her wretched homelessness; where she lives among the nations she finds no place to rest; when her people fell into enemy hands and she had no one to help her; All her persecutors come upon her where she is narrowly confined. when her foes gloated over her, DALETH. and laughed at her ruin. The roads to Zion mourn for lack of pilgrims going to her feasts. HETH. All her gateways are deserted, Because of the sin of which she is guilty, her can only groan; Jerusalem is defiled; her virgins sigh, she is in bitter grief. All who once esteemed her think her vile now that they see her nakedness; HE. She herself groans and turns away. Her foes are uppermost; TETH. her enemies are at ease; Her filth is on her skirt; The Lord has punished her for her many sins. she gave no thought how she would end. Her little ones have been led away, Astounding is her downfall, captive before the foe. with no one to console her. Look, O Lord, upon her misery, JERUSALEM, JERUSALEM, RETURN TO THE LORD YOUR GOD! for the enemy has triumphed. JERUSALEM, JERUSALEM RETURN TO THE LORD YOUR GOD! At the conclusion of Lamentation I Candle #8 is extinguished. At the conclusion of Lamentation II Candle #10 is extinguished. Responsory II: Responsory III: [sung by the choir] Tristis est anima mea Marc’Antonio Ingegneri [sung by choir] Ecce videmus eum non habentem speciem Marc’Antonio Ingegneri

Tristis est anima mea usque ad My soul is sad even unto death. Ecce videmus eum non habentem Behold, we saw him without pleasing mortem. Sustinete hic, et vigilate Wait here, and watch with me: now you speciem, neque decorum: aspectus features, no stately bearing no mecum: nunc videbitis turbam quae will see the crowd that will surround me. ejus in eo non est: Hic peccata any attractiveness in him. This man circumdabit me. Vos fugam capietis, You will all flee and I will nostra portavit et pro nobis dolet: has borne our sins, and he is suffering et ego vadam immolari pre vobis. go to be killed for you. Ipse autem vulneratus est propter for us: He was wounded for our iniquitates nostras: Cujus livore iniquities: By his stripes we have Ecce appropinquat hora, et Filius Behold the hour is at hand, and the sanati sumus. been healed. hominis tradetur in manus Son of Man will be delivered into the peccatorum. hands of evil men. Vere languores nostros ipse tulit, Truly he has borne our suffering, et Delores nostros ipse portavit and he has carried our sorrows. Vos fugam capietis, et ego vadam You will all flee, and I will go to be . immolari pro vobis. killed for you. Cujus livore sanati sumus, By his stripes we have been healed. At the conclusion of Responsory II Candle #11 is extinguished. At the conclusion of Responsory III Candle #13 is extinguished. Lamentations II JOD. SCRIPTURE READING Philippians 2: 6-11 The foe stretched out his hand to all her treasures. She has seen nations enter her sanctuary A reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Philippians whom you forbade to come into your assembly. Christ Jesus, though he was in the form of God, CAPH. did not regard equality with God All her people groan, searching for bread; something to be grasped. They give their treasures for food to retain the breath of life. Rather, he emptied himself, “Look, O Lord, and see how worthless I have become.” taking the form of a slave, LAMED. coming in human likeness; Come all you who pass by the way, and found human in appearance, look and see whether there be any suffering like my suffering, he humbled himself, which has been dealt me when the Lord afflicted me becoming obedient to the point of death, on the day of his blazing wrath. even death on a cross. MEM. Because of this, God greatly exalted him From on high he sent fire down into my very frame; and bestowed on him the name he spread a net for my feet, and over threw me. which is above every name, He left me desolate, in pain all the day. NUN. that at the name of Jesus He has kept watch over my sins: by his hand they have been braided together. every knee should bend, They have settled like a yoke about my neck; of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth, He has brought my strength to its knees; and every tongue confess that The Lord has delivered me into their grip; Jesus Christ is Lord, I am unable to rise. to the glory of God the Father. JERUSALEM, JERUSALEM RETURN TO THE LORD YOUR GOD! At the conclusion of Lamentation III Candle #12 is extinguished. The word of the Lord. MAGNIFICAT UNIVERSAL PRAYER The presider will the altar during the Magnificat. Presider: In this of the Lord’s Passion, when Christ offered prayers and supplications to his Father with loud cries and tears, let us humbly beseech God, that in answer to his Son’s reverent submission he may in mercy hear our prayers also.

Deacon: That the Church, the Bride of Christ, may be more fully cleansed by his Blood in this time of his Passion, let us pray to the Lord. That through the Blood of Christ’s Cross all things in the world may be brought to peace for the sake of salvation, let us pray to the Lord. That God may grant fortitude and patience to all who through sickness or hardship have a share in Christ’s Passion, let us pray to the Lord. To me has God shown favor, That we may all be led to one the world thought frail, through the Lord’s Passion and Cross and every age will echo the angel’s first “All hail.” to the glory of his Resurrection, let us pray to the Lord. God’s mercy shields the faithful and saves them from defeat with strength turns to scatter the proud in their conceit, conceit. LORD’S PRAYER Presider: Our Father… The mighty have been vanquished, the lowly lifted up, lifted up, PRAYER the hungry find abundance; O God, who in this season The rich the empty cup. give your Church the grace to imitate devoutly the Blessed Virgin Mary To Abraham’s descendants the Lord will steadfast prove, steadfast prove, in contemplating the Passion of Christ, for God has made with Israel a covenant of love, love. grant, we pray, through her intercession, that we may cling more firmly each day to your Only Begotten Son During the incensation Candle # 14 is extinguished. and come at last to the fullness of his grace. Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Candle #15 is taken to the Presider who extinguishes it. After a brief silence a loud noise is heard.

Choir Motet facctus est Johann Haydn

Tenebrae factae sunt Darkness covered the earth dum crucifixissent Jesus Judaei: when they had crucified Jesus: et circa oram nonam And about the ninth hour exclamavit Jesus voce dereliquisti?” Jesus cried out with a loud voice: et inclinator capite emisit spiritum. “My God, why has thou forsaken me?” And, with his head inclined, he gave up his spirit.

Exclamans Jesus voce magna, ait: Jesus, crying out again with a loud voice, “Pater, in manus tuas said: “Father , into thy hands I Commendo spiritum meum.” commend my spirit.” Et inclinate capite emisit spiritum. And with his head inclined, he gave up his spirit.

CONCLUDING PRAYER

Let us pray. O God, who by the Passion of Christ your Son, our Lord, abolished the death inherited from ancient sin by every succeeding generation, grant that just as, being conformed to him, we have borne by the law of nature the image of the man of earth, so by the sanctification of grace we may bear the image of the Man of heaven. Through Christ our Lord.

AMEN

The ministers depart in silence.