Fourth Sunday of Lent pg. 24 -------------------- Conclusion Officiant: Dóminus vobíscum. All: Et cum spíritu tuo. Cantors: All: Officiant (in recto tono): Fidélium ánimæ per misericórdiam Dei requiéscant in pace. All: Amen. Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament All kneel. The Blessed Sacrament is taken out of the tabernacle and placed in the monstrance and exposed to the view of the people (Exposition). All: After a period of meditation and reflection the Tantum ergo is sung: (bow) Officiant: Panem de cælo præstitísti eis. All: Omne delectaméntum in se habéntem. Officiant: Orémus: Deus, qui nobis sub Sacraménto mirábili Chapter 2 Cor 6:1-2 Brothers, we exhort you, that you receive not the grace of God in vain. For he saith: In an accepted time have I heard thee; and in the day of salvation have I helped thee. Thanks be to God. Chapter 1 Thess 4:1 For the rest therefore, brethren, we pray and beseech you in the Lord Jesus, that as you have received from us, how you ought to walk, and to please God, so also you would walk, that you may abound the more. Thanks be to God. Chapter Eph 5:1-2 Be ye therefore followers of God, as most dear children; And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath delivered himself for us, an oblation and a sacrifice to God for an odour of sweetness. Thanks be to God. Chapter Gal 4:22-24 Brothers: For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman, and the other by a free woman. But he who was of the bondwoman,
Magnificats First Sunday of Lent Magnificat antiphon Remain standing Cantors: * All: Magnificat Canticle of the Blessed Virgin - Luc. 1:46-55 Alternate verses Cantors and All 2. Et exsultávit spí-ritus mé- us * in Dé-o salu-tá-ri mé- o. V. May the souls of the faithful through the mercy of God rest in peace. R. Amen. Hymn: O Saving Victim 1. O Saving Victim, opening wide The gate of heav’n to man below; Our foes press on from every side; Thine aid supply, Thy strength bestow. 2. To thy great name be endless praise, Immortal Godhead, One in Three; O grant us endless length of days In our true native land with Thee. Amen. Hymn: Tantum ergo 1. Therefore we, before him bending, This great Sacrament revere; Types and shadows have their ending, For the new rite is here; Faith, our
O God, Who dost every year purge thy Church by the Fast of Forty Days, grant unto this thy family, that what things soever they strive to obtain at thy hand by abstaining from meats, they may ever turn to profit by good works. Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. V. Amen. Second Sunday of Lent Magnificat antiphon Remain standing Cantors: * All: Magnificat Canticle of the Blessed Virgin - Luc. 1:46-55 Alternate verses Cantors and All All: 2. Et exsultávit spí-ri-tus mé- us * in Déo sa-lu- ta-ri mé- o. 3. (Cantors) Quia respéxit humilitátem ancíllæ súæ: * ecce enim ex hoc beátam me dícent ómnes generatiónes. 4. Quia fécit míhi mágna qui pótens est: * (bow) et sánctum nómen éjus. 5. (rise) Et misericórdia éjus a progénie in progénies * timéntibus éum. 6. Fécit poténtiam in bráchio súo: * dispérsit supérbos ménte córdis súi. 7. Depósuit poténtes de séde, * et exaltávit húmiles. 8. Esuriéntes implévit bónis: * Ant. Tell the vision that ye have seen to no man, * until the Son of Man be risen again from the dead. (Canticle of the Blessed Virgin Luke 1:46-55) 1. My soul () * doth magnify the Lord. 2. And my spirit hath rejoiced * in God my Saviour. 3. Because he hath regarded the humility of his handmaid; * for behold from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed. 4. Because he that is mighty, hath done great things to me; * and holy is his name.