LITURGY OF THE HOURS, PALM SUNDAY OF THE LORD’S PASSION

 

First Evening Prayer

 

The Hymn is

 

The Psalms are from Week II, with the following antiphons:

           

1.  Day after day I sat teaching you in the temple,

     and you did not lay hands on me.

     Now you come to scourge me and lead me to the cross.

            2.  The Lord God is my help;

                 no shame can harm me.

            3.  The Lord Jesus humbled himself by showing obedience,

                 even when this meant death, death on a cross.

 

The Reading is I Peter 1:18-21, which exhorts us to remember that we have been purchased with the blood of Christ, and cheers us with the message, “Through him you now have faith in God, who raised [Christ] from the dead and gave him glory for that very reason—so that you would have faith, and hope in God!”

 

The Responsory “We worship you, O Christ and we praise you,” is sung, with its verse, “because by your cross you have redeemed the world.”

 

The Magnificat is sung with the antiphon, which points to tomorrow’s procession:

            Praise to our King, the Son of David, the Redeemer of the world;

            praise to the Savior, whose coming had been foretold by the prophets.

 

The Intercessions and Prayer are proper to Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion.

 

Morning Prayer

 

The Hymn is

 

The Psalms are from Week II, with the following antiphons which reflect the solemn proclamation of the Lord’s Passion at today’s Eucharist:

           

            1.  Christ was scourged and treated with contempt,

                 but God’s right hand raised him up.

            2.  The blood of Christ washes away our sins

                 and makes us worthy to serve the living God.

            3.  Christ bore our sins in his own body on the cross

                 so that we might die to sin and be alive to all that is good.

 

The Reading is Acts 13:26-30, which speaks of the Lord’s Passion, and concludes “When they had carried out everything that scripture foretells about him, they took him down fro the tree and buried him in a tomb.  But God raised him from the dead.”

 

The Responsory “We worship you, O Christ and we praise you,” is sung, with its verse, “because by your cross you have redeemed the world.”

 

 

The Magnificat is sung with this antiphon,

quoted from the Passion according to Saint Matthew:

            It is written, I will strike the shepherd and the flock shall be scattered.

            But when I have risen, I will go before you into Galilee.

            There you shall see me, says the Lord.

 

The Intercessions and Prayer are proper to Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion