The Roman Missal: Supplement, Masses Authorized for England (English) 5

1[Friday after the First Sunday of Lent. The Spear and Nails of our Lord Jesus Christ.—Greater Double.]

2Introit. They have dug my hands and my feet; they have numbered all my bones, and I am poured out like water. Ps. My heart is become like wax melting in the midst of my bowels. Glory, &c.

3Prayer. Deus qui in assumptæ. O God, who in the infirmity of the flesh which thou didst assume, wert pleased to be fastened with nails and wounded with a spear for the salvation of the world; mercifully grant that we who venerate the solemnity of the same nails and spear upon earth, may rejoice in the glorious triumph of thy victory in heaven. Who livest, &c.

4[Commemoration of the Feria.]

5[Lesson, Gradual, Tract, and Gospel, as in the Mass of the Passion, above, page CIII.]

6[Credo.]

7Offertory. Wicked men rose up against me: without mercy they sought to kill me, and they did not spare to spit in my face; they wounded me with their spears, and all my bones were shaken.

8Secret. May this holy and unspotted evening sacrifice sanctify us, O Lord, we beseech thee; which thy only-begotten Son offered upon the cross for the salvation of the world. Who lives, &c.

9[Second Secret of the Feria.]

10[Preface. Qui salutem humani generis, &c., as in the Ordinary of the Mass, page 17.]

11Communion. They shall look on him whom they pierced, when the foundations of the earth were moved.

12Postcom. Domine Jesu Christe. O Lord Jesus Christ, who didst offer thyself upon the cross an unspotted and voluntary holocaust to God the Father: we beseech thee that the adorable oblation of the same sacrifice may obtain for us pardon and glory everlasting. Who livest and reignest, &c.

13[Second Postcommunion and last Gospel of the Feria.]