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The Station Church is at Santa Croce in Gerusalemme Today is read the Solemn Collects. Today is read the Passion Gospel. Today is sung the Solemn Reproaches. Today is the Veneration of the Holy Cross. Today is the Mass of the Pre-Sanctified.

Today’s Station: San Giovanni in Laterano. On this day is commemorated the institution of the Eucharist. On this day the Bishop blesses the Holy Oil for the diocese. On this day Feet are washed. On this day the altar is stripped bare. In many traditional western parishes the Blessed Sacrament is placed in an area [...]

To-day ends the “regular” WR masses of Lent in the Roman Missal. To-morrow begins the rigours of Maundy Thursday and the rest of the Holy Triduum. The Liturgies of Thursday, Friday and Saturday would not reproduce well in the “pray along” format that I’ve used for these rites. Thank you for reading along this Lent. [...]

Today’s Station: Santa Prisca Missa: NOS AUTEM INTROIT: Galatians 6: 14 But it behooves us to glory in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ : in whom is our salvation, life, resurrection : by whom we are saved and delivered. (Ps. 66. 2) May God have mercy on us, and bless us : may [...]

Today’s Station: St. Praxedes Missa: JUDICA Domine INTROIT: Psalm Psalm 34: 1-2 Judge Thou, O Lord, them that wrong me: overthrow them that fight against me. Take hold of arms and shield: and rise up to help me. (ibid. 3) Bring out the sword, and shut up the way against them that persecute me: say [...]

Today’s Station: San Giovanni in Laterano Missa: DOMINE NE Longe INTROIT: Psalm Psalm 21: 20,22 O Lord, keep not Thy help far from me: look to my defense: deliver me from the lion’s mouth and my lowness from the horns of the unicorns. Ps. O God, my God, look upon me: why hast Thou forsaken [...]

ESPORAL Office Hymn on the Eve of Palm Sunday: The royal banners forward go: The Cross shines forth in mystic glow, Where he in flesh, our flesh who made, Our sentence bore, our ransom paid : Where deep for us the spear was dyed, Life’s torrent rushing from his side, To wash us in that [...]

Today’s Station: San Giovanni a Porta Latina Missa: MISERERE Mei INTROIT: Psalm 30: 10, 16, 18 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am afflicted: my eye is troubled with wrath, my soul, and my belly: My lots are in thy hands. Deliver me out of the hands of my enemies; and from them [...]

Friday in Passion Week is also the commemoration of the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin. Today’s Station: Santo Stefano Rotondo Missa: MISERERE MIHI, Domine INTROIT: Psalm 30:10, 16, 18 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am afflicted: deliver me out of the hands of my enemies, and from that that persecute me: [...]

Today’s Station: Sant’Apollinare Missa: OMNIA QUAE Fecisti INTROIT: Daniel 3: 31 Wherefore, all that Thou hast done to us, O Lord, Thou hast done in true judgment: because we have sinned against Thee, and have not obeyed Thy commandments: but give glory to Thy name, and deal with us according to the multitude of Thy [...]