My LORD’s BibleThe Roman Missal: Palm Sunday to Wednesday in Holy Week (English) 3
1[Monday in Holy Week.]
3Ps. Bring out the sword, and shut up the way against those who persecute me: say to my soul, I am thy salvation. Judge, &c.
5[Second Prayer, as in page 39.]
6Lesson. Isaias, l. 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; therefore have I set my face as a most hard rock, and I know that I shall not be 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 darkness, and hath no light? let him hope in the name of the Lord, and lean upon his God.
7Gradual. Arise, O Lord, and be attentive to my judgment, to my cause, my God and my Lord.—Bring out the sword, and shut up the way against those who persecute me.
8[Tract as on Ash Wednesday, p. 119.]
9Gospel. St John, xii. 1—9. Six days before the pasch, Jesus 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 what was put therein. But Jesus 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' sake only, but that they might see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.
10Offertory. Deliver me from my enemies, O Lord: to thee have I fled, teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God.
11Secret. May these sacrifices, O Almighty God, make us come more pure to their source, being cleansed by thy powerful strength. Through our Lord, &c.
12[Second Secret, as in page 40.]
13Communion. Let them blush and be ashamed together, who rejoice at my evils; let them be clothed with shame and fear, who speak malignant things against me.
14Postcom. Præbeant. May thy holy mysteries, O Lord, impart to us divine fervour, by which we may both delight in their celebration, and in their effects. Through our Lord, &c.
15[Second Postcommunion, as in page 41.]
16[Over the People. Let us pray. Bow down your heads before God.]