DIOCESE OF GREEN BAY RUBRICS FOR THE CELEBRATION OF HOLY WEEK AND TRIDUUM ADAPTED FOR COVID – 19 1 Rubrics for the Celebration of Holy Week and Triduum Adapted for COVID – 19, 2020 Please DESTROY AFTER EASTER 2020 The following document may be used to celebrate Holy Week and the Triduum if the Mass is to be live streamed. The liturgies are reflective of the directives given by the Sacred Congregation of Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. The following restrictions are to be adhered to for the celebration of these liturgies: 1. The celebration can only include a musician, a cantor, someone to facilitate the “live stream,” a reader, and an adult server or deacon 2. Rites of Initiation of those who have participated in the RCIA Process are to be postponed to a later date. Priests who were to Confirm Catholics during the Easter Vigil are to wait until the Bishop has granted them these faculties at a later date. 3. Form 3 is to be used by Parish Churches for Palm Sunday ABBREVIATIONS / FOOTNOTE REFFERENCES CB: Ceremonial of Bishops RM: Roman Missal (3rd Edition) USCCB: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops 2 PALM SUNDAY OF THE PASSION OF THE LORD 3 Form 3 is to be used by Parish Churches for Palm Sunday. When “…the Solemn Entrance is omitted, the memorial of the Lord’s entrance into Jerusalem takes place by means of a Simple Entrance.”1 (This Rite may be done without a procession and all can take place in the Sanctuary. The blessing of the Palms is omitted and the Reading of the Passion takes place of the prescribed Gospel during the Liturgy of the Word in Form 3.) 1 RM, 16. 4 5 A simple procession begins, slowly, in the following order: - MC - Reader with Palm - PRIEST with Large Palm - If there is a sung entrance hymn, it should be the Entrance Antiphon below (or another appropriate hymn), but if there is no sung entrance hymn the priest, “… as soon as he has arrived at the altar and venerated it, greets the people, reads the Entrance Antiphon, and continues the Mass in the usual way.”2 - MC brings RM to Priest at Chair and the Priest reads the Entrance Antiphon. (See RM, 18) Entrance Antiphon Six days before the Passover, When the Lord came into the city of Jerusalem, The children ran to meet him; In their hands they carried palm branches And with a loud voice crid out: Hosanna in the highest! Blessed are you, who have come in your abundant mercy! O gates, lift high your heads; Grow higher, ancient doors. Let him enter, the king of glory! Who is the king of glory? He, the Lord of hosts, he is the king of glory. Hosanna in the highest! Blessed are you, who have come in your abundant mercy! After the Solemn Entrance the Priest begins the Mass with the collect. 2 RM, 17. 6 (No Penitential Rite) COLLECT Priest: 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 Text: Theodulph of Orleans ca., 760-821; tr. by John M. Neale, 1818-1866, alt., Hymnal Noted, 1854.Music: Melchior of patient suffering Teschner, 1584-1635. and so merit a share in his Resurrection. Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. 3 ℟. Amen Mass continues as usual. 3 RM: p. 141 7 FIRST READING A reading from the Book of the Prophet Isaiah: The Lord GOD has given me a well-trained tongue, that I might know how to speak to the weary a word that will rouse them. Morning after morning he opens my ear that I may hear; and I have not rebelled, have not turned back. I gave my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who plucked my beard; my face I did not shield from buffets and spitting. The Lord GOD is my help, therefore I am not disgraced; I have set my face like flint, knowing that I shall not be put to shame. The Word of the Lord. ℟. Thanks be to God. 8 RESPONSORIAL PSALM 9 SECOND READING A reading from the letter of St. Paul to the Philippians Christ Jesus, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God something to be grasped. Rather, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, coming in human likeness; and found human in appearance, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Because of this, God greatly exalted him and bestowed on him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. The Word of the Lord. ℟. Thanks be to God. 10 GOSPEL ACCLAMATION 11 THE PASSION OF THE LORD MC places prie-dieu. All go to their locations for the reading of the Passion: - Priest (Jesus Part) to Altar - Reader (Narrator) to Ambo - MC (Voice) to Lectern At the point of the death of the Lord in the narrative, all kneel at locations. Priest proceeds to Ambo for a brief homily.4 MC removes prie-dieu from dais. Mass again continues as usual. 4 CB: no. 273 12 CREED I believe in one God, the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible. I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God, born of the Father before all ages. God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father; through him all things were made. For us men and for our salvation he came down from heaven, At the words that follow up to and including and became man, all bow. and by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of the Virgin Mary, and became man. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate, he suffered death and was buried, and rose again on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures. He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead and his kingdom will have no end. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified, who has spoken through the prophets. I believe in one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church. I confess one Baptism for the forgiveness of sins and I look forward to the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come. Amen. 13 PRAYERS OF THE FAITHFUL INSERT INTENTIONS HERE EUCHARISTIC PRAYER Prayer Over the Gifts: RM, pg. 141 Preface (The Passion of the Lord): RM, pg. 142 Eucharistic Prayer: (Bishop selects) Our Father Angus Dei Distribution of Communion 14 PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION Priest: Let us pray. Nourished with these sacred gifts, we humbly beseech you, O Lord, that, just as through the death of your Son you have brought us to hope for what we believe, so by his Resurrection you may lead us to where you call. Through Christ our Lord. ℟. Amen. 15 PRAYER OVER THE PEOPLE Priest: Look, we pray, O Lord, on this your family, for whom our Lord Jesus Christ did not hesitate to be delivered into the hands of the wicked and submit to the agony of the Cross. Who lives and reigns for ever and ever. ℟. Amen. Priest: May almighty God bless you, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Go forth, the Mass is ended. ℟. Thanks be to God. All recess simply by exiting right, to the sacristy. 16 MASS OF THE LORD’S SUPPER 17 PROCESSION - Reader - Priest - MC/Deacon A simple procession proceeds as usual. 18 PROCESSIONAL CHANT 19 20 INTRODUCTORY RITES Priest: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. ℟. Amen Peace be with you. ℟. And with your spirit. (Priest makes brief remarks) Brethren (brothers and sisters), let us acknowledge our sins, and so prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries. A brief pause for silence follows. Then all recite together the formula of general confession: I confess to almighty God and to you, my brothers and sisters, that I have greatly sinned, in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done and in what I have failed to do, And, striking their breast, they say: through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault; Then they continue: therefore I ask blessed Mary ever-Virgin, all the Angels and Saints, and you, my brothers and sisters, to pray for me to the Lord our God. 21 The absolution by Priest follows: May almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us our sins, and bring us to everlasting life. ℟. Amen KYRIE IS CHANTED 22 GLORIA During the Gloria, all bells can be rung. The bells are then silenced until the Gloria during the Easter Vigil.5 5 RM: p. 155 23 COLLECT6 Priest: Let us pray. O God, who have called us to participate in this most sacred Supper, in which your Only Begotten Son, when about to hand himself over to death, entrusted to the Church a sacrifice new for all eternity, the banquet of his love, grant, we pray, that we may draw from so great a mystery, the fullness of charity and of life.