My LORD’s BibleThe Roman Missal: Passion Sunday and Passion Week (English) 6
3Prayer. Deus in cujus. O God, in whose passion, according to the prophecy of Simeon, a sword of sorrow pierced the most sweet soul of the glorious Mary mother and virgin; grant in thy mercy, that we who call to mind with veneration her transfixion and suffering, by the glorious merits and prayers of all the saints faithfully standing by the cross interceding for us, may obtain the happy effect of thy passion. Who livest, &c.
4[Commemoration of the Feria.]
5Prayer. Cordibus. Mercifully infuse thy grace into our hearts, we beseech thee, O Lord; that refraining from sin by voluntary chastisement, we may be rather afflicted in time, than condemned to punishment for eternity. Through our Lord, &c.
6Lesson. Judith, xiii. 22—25. The Lord hath blessed thee by his power, who by thee hath brought our enemies to nought. Blessed art thou by the Lord the most high God, above all women upon the earth. Blessed be the Lord who made heaven and earth, because he hath so magnified thy name this day, that thy praise shall not depart out of the mouth of men, who shall be mindful of the power of the Lord for ever; for that thou hast not spared thy life by reason of the distress and tribulation of thy people, but hast prevented our ruin in the presence of our God.
7Gradual. Thou art sorrowful and worthy of tears, O virgin Mary, standing near the cross of the Lord Jesus, thy son, our Redeemer.
9[Sequence.]
10The pious mother mourned her loss; / She stood and wept beneath the cross, / Which bore her much loved Son:
11And through her deeply wounded breast, / With sorrow's heaviest weight oppressed, / The sword of grief was run.
13With trembling and with sadness worn, / How deeply did that mother mourn / His pangs, who bled above.
14Where is the man, who all unmoved, / Could see her, who so truly loved, / Thus sunk in bitter grief?
15The painful scene who could have borne? / So pure a soul with anguish torn, / And none to yield relief?
17She saw her sweet and only Child, / In desolation calm, and mild / In life's expiring throes.
18Hear then, O mother! source of love, / Let me thy bitter sorrows prove, / And let me weep with thee.
21Let no joys my fond love sever; / In his pains O let me ever / Suffer, with thee a part.
22O make me truly weep with thee; / Mourning with him who died for me, / Let me in grief expire:
23By his loved cross, with thee to stay, / With thee to tread thy painful way, / Such is my fond desire.
24Virgin, above all virgins blest! / All my poor longing heart's request / Is with thy grief to mourn.
26Let me my Saviour's sufferings share, / And his sweet cross devoutly bear, / For thy own Son's pure love:
27And, burning with love's holy fire, / O screen me from the vengeful ire / Of my great Judge above.
28May the bright cross my guardian be, / My Saviour's death, defence to me, / And source of every grace.
30Gospel. St John, xix. 25—27. At that time, there stood by the cross of Jesus, his mother, and his mother's sister Mary of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalen. When Jesus therefore had seen his mother and the disciple standing, whom he loved, he saith to his mother, Woman, behold thy son. After that, he saith to the disciple, Behold thy mother. And from that hour the disciple took her to his own.
31[Credo.]
32Offertory. Be mindful, O virgin Mother of God, when thou standest in the sight of the Lord, to turn away his anger from us.
33Secret. We offer to thee prayers and sacrifices, O Lord Jesus Christ, humbly beseeching, that we who pray in remembrance of the transfixion of the most sweet soul of blessed Mary thy mother, by the multiplied and most pious intercession of her and her holy companions under the cross, may have a reward with the blessed, by the merits of thy death. Who livest, &c.
34Of the Feria. Grant us, O merciful God, ever to deserve worthily to minister at thy altars; and to be saved by a constant participation of them. Through our Lord, &c.
35[Preface of B. Virgin. Et te in transfixione, as in the Ordinary of the Mass, page 21.]
36Communion. Happy senses of the blessed Virgin Mary, which without dying deserved the palm of martyrdom beneath the cross of our Lord.
37Postcom. Sacrificia. O Lord Jesus Christ, may the sacrifices of which we have partaken, in the devout celebration of the transfixion of thy virgin mother, obtain for us of thy clemency, the effect of every salutary good. Who livest and reignest, &c.
38Of the Feria. Sumpti. May the perpetual protection of the sacrifice we have received not forsake us, O Lord; and ever drive from us all that is hurtful. Through our Lord, &c.
39[At the end is said the Gospel of the Feria.]
40St John, xi. 47—54. At that time, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council against Jesus, and said, What do we; for this man doth many miracles? If we let him alone so, all will believe in him, and the Romans will come, and take away our place and nation. But one of them, named Caiphas, being the high-priest that year, said to them, You know nothing: neither do you consider that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not. And this he spoke not of himself; but being the high-priest of that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation; and not only for the nation, but to gather together in one the children of God that were dispersed. From that day therefore they devised to put him to death. Wherefore Jesus walked no more openly among the Jews; but he went into a country near the desert, unto a city that is called Ephrem, and there he abode with his disciples.