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LITURGICAL SOLEMNITY IN COMMEMORATION OF 

THE PASSION AND DEATH OF THE LORD

The Mass of the Presanctified

Good Friday is a day of very great mourning. Christ encounters death. The hold of death over all human lives extends even to the Head of humanity, the Son of God made man. But, as all Christians know, this death which Jesus shared with us and which, for Him, was so cruel, was in accordance with God’s plans for the salvation of the world. Imposed by the Father on His Son, it was accepted by Him for our redemption.

Henceforth, the Cross of Christ becomes the Christian’s glory. Yesterday we sang, “it behooves us to glory in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Again today the Church repeats it and offers us the Cross for our veneration: “Behold the wood of the Cross on which hung the Saviour of the world.” Consequently, Good Friday, while remaining a day of mourning, is also the day which gave back hope to mankind: it leads up to the joy of the Resurrection. On this, the anniversary day of our Saviour’s death, the Church gives her temples an appearance of complete desolation.

The solemn liturgy of Good Friday, when the Church commemorates the redemption of the world should be dear to all Catholics. On a day like this the solemn singing of the Passion, the Collects in which the Church prays with confidence for the salvation of all men, the veneration of the Cross and the singing of the reproaches, are much more than moving rites: they form the prayer and thanksgiving of all the redeemed who, together, acknowledge in God’s presence what the mystery of the Cross means to them.

This Solemn Liturgy is made up of four parts. The first part is a service of prayer, readings and chants, with two passages from the Old Testament and the Passion

according to St John. The second part consists of the solemn collects. The third part is the Veneration of the Cross, and the fourth part is the solemn communion service.

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FIRST LESSON Osee 6. 1-6 

RESPONSORY Habacuc 3. 2-3

SECOND LESSON Exodus 12. 1-11

RESPONSORY Psalm 139. 2-10, 14

THE PASSION OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST  John 18. 1-40; 19. 1-42

SECOND PART : THE SOLEMN COLLECTS

THIRD PART: THE SOLEMN VENERATION OF THE CROSS

FOURTH PART : THE COMMUNION