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And Herod and Pilate were made friends that same day for before they were enemies to one another. Then Pilate calling together the chief priests, and the magistrates, and the people, said to them: You have brought this man to me as one that perverteth the people, and behold I, having examSined him before you, find no cause in this man touching those things wherein you accuse him. No, nor Herod neither. For I sent you to him, and behold, nothing worthy of death is done to him. I will chastise him therefore and release him. Now of necessity he was to release unto them one upon the the feast day. But the whole multitude together cried out at once, saying: Away with this man, and release unto us Barabbas, who for a certain sedition made in the city, and for a murder, was cast into prison. And Pilate again spoke to them, desiring to release Jesus. But they cried out again, saying: Crucify him, crucify him. And he said to them the third time: Why, what evil hath this man done? I find no cause of death in him. I will chastise him therefore, and let him go. But they were instant with loud voices requiring that he might be crucified: and their voices prevailed. And Pilate gave -sentence that it should be as they required. And he released unto them him who for murder and sedition had been cast into prison, whom they had desired: but Jesus he delivered up to their will. And as they led him away, they laid hold on one Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country: and they -laid the cross on him to carry after Jesus. And there followed him a great multitude of people, and of women who bewailed and lamented him. But Jesus turning to them, said: Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not over me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children. For behold the day's shall come, wherein they will say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that have not borne, and the paps that have not given suck. Then shall they

begin to say to the mountains: Fall upon us: and to the hills, cover us. For if in the green wood they do these things, what shall be done in the dry? And there were also two other malefactors led with him, to be put to death. And when they were come to the place which is called Calvary, they crucified him there; and the robbers, one on the right hand, and the other on the left. And Jesus said: Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. But they dividing his garments cast lots. And the people stood beholding, and the rulers with them derided hirn, saying: He saved others, let him save himself, if he be Christ, the elect of God. And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering him vinegar, and saying: If thou be the king of the Jews, save thyself. And there was also a superscription written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew: THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS. And one of those robbers who were hanged, blasphemed him, saying: If thou be Christ, save thyself and us. But the other answering, rebuked him, saying: Neither dost thou fear God, seeing thou art under the same condemnation: And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward of our deeds; but this man hath done no evil. And he said to Jesus: Lord, remember me when thou shalt come into thy kingdom, And Jesus said to him: Amen I say to thee, this day thou shalt be with me in paradise. And it was almost the sixth hour; and there was darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. And the sun was darkened; and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst. And Jesus crying with a loud voice, said: Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit. And saying this, he gave up the ghost". Now the centurion seeing what was done, glorified God, saying: Indeed this was a just man. And all the multitude of them that were come together to *Here all kneel, and pause,

that sight, and saw the things that were done, returned striking their breast. And all his acquaintance, and the women that had followed him from Galilee, stood afar off, beholding these things.

Here is said the Prayer, Cleanse my heart, &c. p. xx. AND behold there was a man named Joseph, who

was a counsellor, a good and just man: (the same had not consented to their counsel and doing) of Arimathea, a city of Judea, who also himself looked for the kingdom of God. This man went to Pilate and begged the body of Jesus. And taking him down he wrapped him in fine linen, and laid him in a sepulchre that was hewed in stone, wherein never yet any man had been laid.

OFFERT. Ps. ci.-Hear, O Lord, my prayer; and let my cry come to thee: turn not away thy face from me.

SECRET.

Accept, O Lord, we beseech thee, the offerings we have made; and mercifully grant, that we may receive, with pious sentiments, what we celebrate in the mystery of the passion of our Lord. Thro' the same.

COMM. Ps. ci.-I mingled my drink with weeping, for having lifted me up, thou hast thrown me down, and I am withered like grass; but thou, O Lord, endurest for ever: thou shalt arise, and have mercy on Sion; because the time to have mercy on her, is come.

P. COMM. Largire.-Grant, O Almighty God, that we may have a lively hope, that thou hast given us eternal life by the temporal death of thy Son, represented in these adorable mysteries. Thro' the same.

Let us pray. Bow down your heads to God.

PRAYER. Respice. Look down. O Lord, we beseech thee, on this thy family, for which our Lord Jesus Christ scrupled not to be delivered into the hands of wicked men, and undergo the punish ment of the cross. Who liveth, &c. in secret.

MAUNDY-THURSDAY.

INTROIT.

Gal. vi.

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WE ought to glory in NOS autem gloriari

the cross of our

Lord Jesus Christ: in whom is our salvation, life and resurrection: by whom we have been saved and delivered.

Ps. May God have mercy on us, and bless us: may his countenance shine upon us, and may he have mercy on us.We ought, &c.

oportet in cruce Domini nostri Jesu Christi: in quo est salus, vita, et resurrectio nostra: per quem salvati, et liberati

sumus.

Ps. lxvi. Deus misereatur nostri, et benedicat nobis: illuminet vultum suum super nos, et misereatur nostri. Nos autem, &c. to Ps.

The bells are rung during the whole time of the Gloria in excelsis: after which they remain silent, till the same time on Holy Saturday.

COLLECT. Deus, a quo.-O God, from whom both Judas received the punishment of his sin, and the thief the reward of his confession: grant us the efects of thy mercy; that as our Lord Jesus Christ, at the time of his passion, bestowed on both different revards according to their merits; so, having destroyed the old man in us, he may give us grace to rise again with him. Who liveth.

IPISTLE. 1 Cor. xi. 20. 32.- -Brethren: When you come therefore together into one place, it is not now to eat the Lord's supper. For every one takeh before his own supper to eat. And one indeed is hungry, and another is drunk. What, have you not houses to eat and drink in? Or despise ye the churh of God; and put them to shame that have not? What shall I say to you? Do I praise you? In this I praise you not. For I have received of the lord that which also I delivered to you, that

the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was be trayed, took bread, and giving thanks, broke, and said: TAKE YE AND EAT: THIS IS MY BODY WHICH SHALL BE DELIVERED FOR YOU: THIS DO FOR THE COMMEMORATION OF ME. In like manner also the Chalice, after he had supped, saying: THIS CHALICE 18 THE NEW TESTAMENT IN MY BLOOD: THIS DO YE, AS OFTEN AS YE SHALL DRINK IT, FOR THE

COMMEMORATION OF ME. For as often as you shall eat this bread, and drink the chalice, you shall shew the death of the Lord, until he come. Therefore whosoever shall eat this bread and drink the chalice of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man prove himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of the chalice. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgment to himself, not discerning the body of the Lord. Therefore are there many infirm and weak among you, and many sleep. But if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. But whilst we are judged, we are chastised by the Lord: that we be not condemned with this world.

Phil. ii.

GRADUAL. Christ for us became Christus factus est pro obedient unto death, even nobis obediens usque id to the death of the cross. mortem, mortem auten V. For which cause, God crucis. V. Propter quod also hath exalted him, and et Deus exaltavit illum, hath given him a name, et dedit illi nomen, grød which is above all names. est super omne nomen GOSPEL. John xiii. 1. 15.-Before the festval day of the pasch, Jesus knowing that his hour was come that he should pass out of this work to the Father having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them unto the end. And when supperwas dope, (the devil having now put it into the hert of

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