†
FRIDAY OF THE PASSION OF THE LORD
(GOOD FRIDAY)
†
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
Glory and praise to you, O Christ!
Christ was humbler yet, IP
even to accepting death,
death on a cross.
But God raised him high
and gave him the name
which is above all names.
Glory and praise to you, O Christ!
GOSPEL READING
JOHN 18:1-19:42
†
THE SYMBOLS IN THE FOLLOWING PASSION NARRATIVE REPRESENT:
(N.) NARRATOR
(J.) JESUS
(O.) OTHER SINGLE SPEAKER
(C.) CROWD OR MORE THAN ONE SPEAKER
†
THE PASSION OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST ACCORDING TO JOHN
†
(N.) Jesus left with his disciples and crossed the Kedron valley.
There was a garden there,
and he went into it with his disciples.
Judas the traitor knew the place well,
since Jesus has often met his disciples there,
and he brought the cohurt to this place
together with a detachment of guards
sent by the chief priests and the Pharisees,
all with lanterns and torches and weapons.
Knowing everything that was going to happen to him,
Jesus then came forward and said,
(J.) Who are you looking for?
(N.) They answered,
(C.) Jesus the Nazarene.
(N.) He said,
(J.) I am he.
(N.) Now Judas the traitor was standing among them.
When Jesus said, “I am he”, they moved back and fell to the ground.
He asked them a second time,
(J.) Who are you looking for?
(N.) They said,
(C.) Jesus the Nazarene.
(N.) Jesus replied,
(J.) I have told you that I am he.
If I am the one you are looking for, let these others go.
(N.) This was to fulfil the words he had spoken:
“Not one of those you gave me have I lost.”
Simon Peter, who carried a sword, drew it
and wounded the high priest’s servant,
cutting off his right ear.
The Servant’s name was Malchus.
Jesus said to Peter.
(J.) Put your sword back in its scabbard;
am I not to drink the cup that the Father has given me?
(N.)The cohurt and its captain and the Jewish guards
seized Jesus and bound him.
They took him first to Annas,
because Annas was the father-in-law of Caiaphas,
who was high priest that year.
It was Caiaphas who had suggested to the Jews,
“It is better for one man to die for the people.”
Simon Peter, with another disciple, followed Jesus.
This disciple, who was known by the high priest,
went with Jesus into the high priest’s palace,
but Peter stayed outside the door.
So the other disciple, the one known by the high priest,
went out, spoke to the woman
who was keeping the door and brought Peter in.
The maid on duty at the door said to Peter,
(O.) Aren’t you another of that man’s disciples?
(N.) He answered,
(O.) I am not.
(N.) Now it was cold, and the servants and guards had lit a charcoal fire
and was standing there warming themselves;
so Peter stood there too, warming himself with the others.
The high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and his teaching.
Jesus answered,
(J.) I have spoken openly for all the world to hear;
I have always taught in the synagogue and in the Temple
where all the Jews meet together:
I have said nothing in secret.
But why ask me?
Ask my hearers what I taught:
they know what I said.
(N.) At these words, one of the guards standing by
gave Jesus a slap in the face, saying,
(O.) Is that the way to answer the high priest?
(N.) Jesus replied.
(J.) If there is something wrong in what I said, point it out;
but if there is no offence in it, why do you strike me?
(N.) Then Annas sent him, still bound,
to Caiaphas, the high priest.
As Simon Peter stood there warming himself, someone said to him,
(O.) Aren’t you another of his disciples?
(N.) He denied it saying,
(O.) I am not.
(N.) One of the high priest’s servants,
a relation of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, said,
(O.) Didn’t I see you in the Garden with him?
(N.) Again Peter denied it, and at once a cock crew.
They then led Jesus from the house of Caiaphas to the Praetorium.
It was now morning.
They did not go into the Praetorium themselves
or they would be defiled and unable to eat the passover.
So Pilate came outside to them and said,
(O.) What charge do you bring against this man?
(N.) They replied,
(C.) If he were not a criminal,
we should not be handing him over to you.
(N.) Pilate said,
(O.) Take him yourselves, and try him by your own law.
(N.) The Jews answered,
(C.) We are not allowed to put a man to death.
(N.)This was to fulfil the words Jesus had spoken
indicating the way he was going to die.
So Pilate went back into the Praetorium
and called Jesus to him, and asked,
(O.) Are you the king of the Jews?
(N.) Jesus replied,
(J.) Do you ask this of your own accord,
or have others spoken to you about me?
(N.) Pilate answered,
(O.) Am I a Jew?
It is your own people and the chief priests
who have handed you over to me:
what have you done?
(N.) Jesus replied,
(J.) Mine is not a kingdom of this world;
if my kingdom were of this world,
my men would have fought
to prevent me being surrendered to the Jews.
But my kingdom is not of this kind.
(N.) Pilate said,
(O.) So you are the king then?
(N.) Jesus answered
(J.) It is you who say it.
Yes, I am a king.
I was born for this;
I came into the world for this;
to bear witness to the truth,
and all who are on the side of truth listen to my voice.
(N.) Pilate said,
(O.) Truth? What is that?
(N.) And with that he went out again to the Jews and said,
(O.) I find no case against him.
But according to a custom of yours
I should release one prisoner at the Passover;
would you like me,
then, to release the king of the Jews?
(N.) At this they shouted:
(C.) Not this man, but Barabbas.
(N.) Barabbas was a brigand.
Pilate then had Jesus taken away and scourged;
and after this, the soldiers twisted some thorns into a crown
and put it on his head, and dressed him in a purple robe.
They kept coming up to him and saying,
(C.) Hail, king of the Jews!
(N.) And they slapped his face.
Pilate came outside again and said to them,
(O.) Look, I am going to bring him out to you
to let you see that I find no case.
(N.) Jesus then came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe.
Pilate said,
(O.) Here is the man.
(N.)When they saw him the chief priests and the guards shouted,
(C.) Crucify him! Crucify him!
(N.) Pilate said,
(O.) Take him yourselves and crucify him:
I can find no case against him
(N.) The Jews replied,
(C.) We have a law,
and according to the law he ought to die,
because he has claimed to be the son of God.
(N.) When Pilate heard them say this his fear increased.
Re-entering the Praetorium, he said to Jesus,
(O.) Where do you come from?
(N.) But Jesus made no answer.
Pilate then said to him,
(O.) Are you refusing to speak to me?
Surely you know I have power to release you
and I have power to crucify you?
(N.) Jesus replied,
(J.)You would have no power over me
if it had not been given you from above;
that is why the one who handed me over to you has the greater guilt.
(N.) From that moment Pilate was anxious to set him free,
but the Jews shouted,
(C.) If you set him free you are no friend of Caesar’s;
anyone who makes himself king is defying Caesar.
(N.) Hearing these words, Pilate had Jesus brought out,
and seated himself on the chair of judgement
at a place called the Pavement, in Hebrew Gabbatha.
It was Passover Preparation Day,
about the sixth hour.
Pilate said to the Jews,
(O.) Here is your king.
(N.) They said,
(C.) Take him away, take him away.
Crucify him!
(N.) Pilate said,
(O.) Do you want me to crucify your king?
(N.) The chief priests answered,
(C.) We have no king except Caesar.
(N.) So in the end Pilate handed him over to them to be crucified.
They then took charge of Jesus,
and carrying his own cross he went out of the city to the place of the skull,
or, as it was called in Hebrew, Golgotha,
where they crucified him with two others,
one on either side with Jesus in the middle.
Pilate wrote out a notice and had it fixed to the cross; it ran:
“Jesus the Nazarene, King of the Jews.”
This notice was read by many of the Jews,
because the place where Jesus was crucified was not far from the city,
and the writing was in Hebrew, Latin and Greek.
So the Jewish chief priests said to Pilate,
(C.) You should not write “King of the Jews”,
but “this man said: I am King of the Jews”.
(N.) Pilate answered,
(O.) What I have written, I have written.
(N.) When the soldiers had finished crucifying Jesus
they took his clothing and divided it into four shares, one for each soldier.
His undergarment was seamless,
woven in one piece from neck to hem;
so they said to one another,
(C.) Instead of tearing it,
let’s throw dice to decide who is to have it.
(N.) In this way the words of scripture were fulfilled:
They shared out my clothing among them.
They cast lots for my clothes.
This is exactly what the soldiers did.
Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother
and his mother’s sister,
Mary the wife of Clopas,
and Mary of Magdala.
Seeing his mother and the disciple he loved standing near her,
Jesus said to his mother,
(J.) Woman, this is your son.
(N.) Then to the disciple he said,
(J.) This is your mother.
(N.) And from that moment the disciple made a place for her in his home.
After this, Jesus knew that everything had now been completed,
and to fulfil the scripture perfectly he said:
(J.) I am thirsty.
(N.) A jar full of vinegar stood there,
so putting a sponge soaked in vinegar on a hyssop stick
they held it up to his mouth.
After Jesus had taken the vinegar he said,
(J) It is accomplished;
(N.) and bowing his head he gave up the spirit.
(ALL KNEEL AND PAUSE A MOMENT.)
(N.) It was Preparation Day,
and to prevent the bodies remaining on the cross during Sabbath
– since that Sabbath was a day of special solemnity –
the Jews asked Pilate to have the legs broken
and the bodies taken away.
Consequently the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man
who has been crucified with him
and then of the other.
When they came to Jesus,
they found that he was already dead,
and so instead of breaking his legs
one of the soldiers pierced his side with a lance;
and immediately there came out blood and water.
This is the evidence of the one who saw it
– trustworthy evidence,
and he knows he speaks the truth –
and he gives it so that you may believe as well.
Because all this happened to fulfil the words of scripture:
Not one bone of his will be broken,
and again, in another place scripture says:
They will look on the one whom they have pierced.
After this, Joseph of Arimathaea,
who was a disciple of Jesus
– though a secret one because he was afraid of the Jews –
asked Pilate to let him remove the body of Jesus.
Pilate gave permission, so they came and took it away.
Nicodemus came as well
– the same one who had first come to Jesus at night–time –
and he brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes,
weighing about a hundred pounds.
They took the body of Jesus and wrapped it with the spices in linen cloths,
following the Jewish burial custom.
At the place where he had been crucified there was a garden,
and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been buried.
Since it was the Jewish Day of Preparation
and the tomb was near at hand,
they laid Jesus there.
The Gospel of the Lord.
R.) Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
†
†
THE SHOWING OF HOLY CROSS
†
LATIN
V.) Ecce lignum Crucis,
in quo salus mundi pependit.
R.) Venite, adoremus.
ENGLISH
V.) Behold the wood of the Cross,
on which hung the salvation of the world.
R.) Come, let us adore.
†
†
THE ADORATION OF THE HOLY CROSS
HYMN
†
LATIN
OMNES:
Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis,
Nulla talem silva profert, flore, fronde, germine!
Dulce lignum dulci clavo dulce pondus sustinens!
CANTORES:
Pange, lingua, gloriosi prœlium certaminis,
Et super crucis tropæo dic triumphum nobilem,
Qualiter Redemptor orbis immolatus vicerit.
OMNES:
Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis,
Nulla talem silva profert, flore, fronde, germine!
CANTORES:
De parentis protoplasti fraude factor condolens,
Quando pomi noxialis morte morsu corruit,
Ipse lignum tunc notavit, damna ligni ut solveret.
OMNES:
Dulce lignum dulci clavo dulce pondus sustinens!
CANTORES:
Hoc opus nostræ salutis ordo depoposcerat,
Multiformis perditoris arte ut artem falleret,
Et medelam ferret inde, hostis unde læserat.
OMNES:
Crux fedelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis,
Nulla talem silva profert, flore, fronde, germine!
CANTORES:
Quando venit ergo sacri plenitudo temporis,
Missus est ab arce Patris Natus, orbis conditor,
Atque ventre virginali carne factus prodiit.
OMNES:
Dulce lignum dulci clavo dulce pondus sustinens!
CANTORES:
Vagit infans inter arta conditus præsepia,
Membra pannis involuta Virgo Mater alligat,
Et manus pedesque et crura stricta cingit fascia.
OMNES:
Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis,
Nulla talem silva profert, flore, fronde, germine!
CANTORES:
Lustra sex qui iam peracta, tempus implens corporis
volente, natus ad hoc, passioni deditus,
Agnus in crucis levatur immolandus stipite.
OMNES:
Dulce lignum dulci clavo dulce pondus sustinens!
CANTORES:
En acetum, fel, arundo, sputa, clavi, lancea;
Mite corpus perforatur, sanguis unde profluit;
Terra, pontus, astra, mundus quo lavantur flumine!
OMNES:
Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis,
Nulla talem silva profert, flore, fronde, germine!
CANTORES:
Flecte ramos, arbor alta, tensa laxa viscera,
Et rigor lentescat ille, quem dedit nativitas,
Ut superni membra Regis miti tendas stipite.
OMNES:
Dulce lignum dulci clavo dulce pondus sustinens!
CANTORES:
Sola digna tu fuisti ferre sæcli pretium
Atque portum præparare nauta mundo naufrago,
Quem sacer cruor perunxit fusus Agni corpore.
OMNES:
Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis,
Nulla talem silva profert, flore, fronde, germine!
(THE FOLLOWING CONCLUSION IS NEVER TO BE OMITTED)
OMNES:
Æqua Patri Filioque, inclito Paraclito,
Sempiterna sit beatæ Trinitati gloria;
cuius alma nos redemit atque servat gratia.
Amen.
†
ENGLISH
ALL:
Faithful Cross the Saints rely on,
Noble tree beyond compare!
Never was there such a scion,
Never leaf or flower so rare.
Sweet the timber, sweet the iron,
Sweet the burden that they bear!
CANTORS:
Sing, my tongue, in exultation
Of our banner and device!
Make a solemn proclamation
Of a triumph and its price:
How the Saviour of creation
Conquered by his sacrifice!
ALL:
Faithful Cross the Saints rely on,
Noble tree beyond compare!
Never was there such a scion,
Never leaf or flower so rare.
CANTORS:
For, when Adam first offended,
Eating that forbidden fruit,
Not all hopes of glory ended
With the serpent at the root:
Broken nature would be mended
By a second tree and shoot.
ALL:
Sweet the timber, sweet the iron,
Sweet the burden that they bear!
CANTORS:
Thus the tempter was outwitted
By a wisdom deeper still:
Remedy and ailment fitted,
Means to cure and means to kill;
That the world might be acquitted,
Christ would do his Father’s will.
ALL:
Faithful Cross the Saints rely on,
Noble tree beyond compare!
Never was there such a scion,
Never leaf or flower so rare.
CANTORS:
So the Father, out of pity
For our self-inflicted doom,
Sent him from the heavenly city
When the holy time had come:
He, the Son and the Almighty,
Took our flesh in Mary’s womb.
ALL:
Sweet the timber, sweet the iron,
Sweet the burden that they bear!
CANTORS:
Hear a tiny baby crying,
Founder of the seas and strands;
See his virgin Mother tying
Cloth around his feet and hands;
Find him in a manger lying
Tightly wrapped in swaddling-bands!
ALL:
Faithful Cross the Saints rely on,
Noble tree beyond compare!
Never was there such a scion,
Never leaf or flower so rare.
CANTORS:
So he came, the long-expected,
Not in glory, not in reign;
Only born to be rejected,
Choosing hunger, toil and pain,
Till the scaffold was erected
And the Paschal Lamb was slain.
ALL:
Sweet the timber, sweet the iron,
Sweet the burden that they bear!
CANTORS:
No disgrace was too abhorrent:
Nailed and mocked and parched he died;
Blood and water, double warrant,
Issue from his wounded side,
Washing in a mighty torrent
Earth and stars and oceantide.
ALL:
Faithful Cross the Saints rely on,
Noble tree beyond compare!
Never was there such a scion,
Never leaf or flower so rare.
CANTORS:
Lofty timber, smooth your roughness,
Flex your boughs for blossoming;
Let your fibres lose their toughness,
Gently let your tendrils cling;
Lay aside your native gruffness,
Clasp the body of your King!
ALL:
Sweet the timber, sweet the iron,
Sweet the burden that they bear!
CANTORS:
Noblest tree of all created,
Richly jewelled and embossed:
Post by Lamb’s blood consecrated;
Spar that saves the tempest-tossed;
Scaffold-beam which, elevated,
Carries what the world has cost!
ALL:
Faithful Cross the Saints rely on,
Noble tree beyond compare!
Never was there such a scion,
Never leaf or flower so rare.
(THE FOLLOWING CONCLUSION IS NEVER TO BE OMITTED)
ALL:
Wisdom, power, and adoration
To the blessed Trinity
For redemption and salvation
Through the Paschal Mystery,
Now, in every generation,
And for all eternity.
Amen.
†
†
PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION
LATIN
Omnipotens sempiterne Deus,
qui nos Christi tui beata morte
et resurrectione reparasti,
conserva in nobis opus misericordiæ tuæ,
ut huius mysterii participatione
perpetua devotione vivamus.
Per Christum Dominum nostrum.
R.) Amen.
ENGLISH
Almighty ever-living God,
who have restored us to life
by the blessed Death and Resurrection
of your Christ,
preserve in us the work of your mercy,
that, by partaking of this mystery,
we may have a life unceasingly
devoted to you.
Through Christ our Lord.
R.) Amen.
†
PRAYER OVER THE PEOPLE
(OPTIONAL)
LATIN
Super populum tuum, quæsumus, Domine,
qui mortem Filii tui
in spe suæ resurrectionis recoluit,
benedictio copiosa descendat,
indulgentia veniat,
consolatio tribuatur,
fides sancta succrescat,
redemptio sempiterna firmetur.
Per Christum Dominum nostrum.
R.) Amen.
ENGLISH
May abundant blessing, O Lord, we pray,
descend upon your people,
who have honoured the Death of your Son
in the hope of their resurrection:
may pardon come,
comfort be given,
holy faith increase,
and everlasting redemption
be made secure.
Through Christ our Lord.
R.) Amen.
†
responsorialpsalmcatholic 