Good Friday

GOOD FRIDAY

Jesus Christ, having been arrested in the Garden of Gethsemane by the Temple Guards through the guidance of Judas Iscariot, is brought to the house of Annas, who is father-in-law of the current high priest, Caiaphas. There he is interrogated with little result, and sent bound to Caiaphas the high priest, where the Sanhedrin had assembled (John 18:1-24).

Conflicting testimony against Jesus is brought forth by many witnesses, to which Jesus answers nothing. Finally the high priest adjures Jesus to respond under solemn oath, saying "I adjure you, by the Living God, to tell us, are you the Anointed One, the Son of God?" Jesus testifies in the affirmative, "You have said it, and in time you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of the Almighty, coming on the clouds of Heaven." The high priest condemns Jesus for blasphemy, and the Sanhedrin concurs with a sentence of death (Matthew 26:57-66).

GOOD FRIDAY

T[ The Office being ended, the Priest and Ministers,
in black vestments, and without candles and incense,
shall go unto the Altar ; and prostrating themselves
before it, shall pray for a while. And the Acolytes shall
spread one cloth and no more upon the Altar. His
prayer being finished, the Priest, with the Ministers,
shall go up to the A Itar, and kiss it in the middle : and
thereafter the Reader, going to the place where the
Epistle is read, shall read the Prophecy, beginning it
without any announcement, and the Priest shall read it
at the same time in a low voice, standing at the Epistle
corner.

Hosea 6.

HTHUS saith the Lord : In their affliction they
J- will seek me early. Come, and let us return
unto the Lord : for he hath torn, and he will heal us ;
he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. After two
days will he revive us : in the third day he will raise
us up, and we shall live in his sight. Then shall we
know, if we follow on to know the Lord : his going
forth is prepared as the morning ; and he shall come
unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto
the earth. O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee ?
O Judah, what shall I do unto thee ? For your good
ness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it
goeth away. Therefore I have hewed them by the
prophets ; I have slain them by the words of my
mouth : and thy judgments are as the light that
goeth forth. For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice ;
and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.



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TRACT. Hob. 3. O Lord, I have heard thy
speech, and was afraid : I have considered thy works,
and was confounded.

y. O Lord, revive thy work in the midst of the
years : in the midst of the years make it known
y. In the time of confusion of my soul : in wrath,
remember mercy, y. God came from Teman, and
his Holy One from the thick woods of the mountains.
y. His glory covered the heavens : and the earth
was full of his praise.

The Tract being ended, the Priest at the Epistle
corner shall say : Let us pray. Then shall the Deacon
say : Let us bow the knee. And the Subdeacon : Arise.

COLLECT.

ALMIGHTY God, we beseech thee graciously to
*^*- behold this thy family, for which our Lord
Jesus Christ was contented to be betrayed, and given
up into the hands of wicked men, and to suffer death
upon the Cross : Who now liveth and reigneth with
thee and the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without
end. 1^7. Amen.

Let us pray. Let us bow the knee. ty. Arise.

COLLECT.

ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, by whose
^* Spirit the whole body of the Church is governed
and sanctified : receive our supplications and
prayers, which we offer before thee for all estates of
men in thy holy Church ; that every member of the
same, in his vocation and ministry, may truly and
godly serve thee. Through our Lord and Saviour
Jesus Christ. It?. Amen,

Let us pray. Let us bow the knee. 3^7. Arise.



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COLLECT.

O MERCIFUL God, who hast made all men, and
hatest nothing that thou hast made, nor
wouldest the death of a sinner, but rather that he
should be converted and live : have mercy upon all
Jews, Turks, Infidels, and Hereticks, and take from
them all ignorance, hardness of heart, and contempt
of thy Word ; and so fetch them home, blessed Lord,
to thy flock, that they may be saved among the
remnant of the true Israelites, and be made one fold
under one shepherd, Jesus Christ our Lord : Who
liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit,
one God, world without end. ty. Amen.

Then shall the Subdeacon, without any announce
ment, sing the Epistle following. Heb. 10. i.

T)RETHREN: The law having a shadow of good
U things to come, and not the very image of the
things, can never with those sacrifices, which they
offered year by year continually, make the comers
thereunto perfect : for then would they not have
ceased to be offered ? because that the worshippers
once purged should have had no more conscience of
sins. But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance
again made of sins every year. For it is not possible
that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away
sins. Wherefore, when he cometh into the world, he
saith : Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a
body hast thou prepared me : in burnt-offerings and
sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. Then
said I: Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is
written of me) to do thy will, O God. Above, when
he said : Sacrifice and offering, and burnt-offerings,
and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst
pleasure therein, which are offered by the Law : then



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said he : Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh
away the first, that he may establish the second. By
the which will we are sanctified, through the offering
of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And every
priest standeth daily ministering, and offering often
times the same sacrifices, which can never take away
sins. But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice
for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God ;
from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made
his foot-stool. For by one offering he hath perfected
for ever them that are sanctified. Whereof the Holy
Ghost also is a witness to us : for after that he had
said before : This is the covenant that I will make
with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put
my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I
write them ; and their sins and iniquities will I re
member no more. Now where remission of these is,
there is no more offering for sin. Having therefore,
brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the
blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he
hath consecrated for us, through the vail, that is to
say, his flesh ; and having an High Priest over the
house of God ; let us draw near with a true heart, in
full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled
from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with
pure water. Let us hold fast the profession of our
faith without wavering ; (for he is faithful that pro
mised ;) and let us consider one another to provoke
unto love, and to good works ; not forsaking the
assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of
some is ; but exhorting one another ; and so much
the more, as ye see the day approaching.

TRACT. Ps. 140. Deliver me, O Lord, from the
evil man : and preserve me from the wicked man.
y. Who imagine mischief in their hearts : and stir
up strife all the day long. y. They have sharpened



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their tongues like a serpent : adder s poison is under
their lips. y. Keep me, O Lord, from the hands of
the ungodly : and preserve me from the wicked men.
y. Who are purposed to overthrow my goings : the
proud have laid a snare for me. y. And spread a net
abroad with cords : yea, and set traps in my way.
y. I said unto the Lord : Thou art my God : hear the
voice of my prayers, O Lord. y. O Lord God, thou
strength of my health : thou hast covered my head
in the day of battle, y. Let not the ungodly have
his desire, O Lord : let not his mischievous imagina
tion prosper, lest they be too proud, y. Let the
mischief of their own lips fall upon the head of them :
that compass me about, y. The righteous also shall
give thanks unto thy Name : and the just shall
continue in thy sight.

The Tract ended, the Passion is read from a bare
desk : and the Celebrant shall read it also at the Epistle
horn of the Altar in a low voice.

The PASSION of our Lord Jesus Christ, according
to John. St. John 19. i.

T that time: Pilate therefore took Jesus, and
scourged him. And the soldiers platted a
crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put
on him a purple robe, and said : 5. Hail, King of the
Jews. C. And they smote him with their hands.
Pilate therefore went forth again, and saith unto
them : 5. Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye
may know that I find no fault in him. C. Then came
Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the
purple robe. And Pilate saith unto them : 5. Behold
the man ! C. When the chief priests therefore and
officers saw him, they cried out, saying : 5. Crucify
him, crucify him. C. Pilate saith unto them :



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S. Take ye him, and crucify him : for I find no fault
in him. C. The Jews answered him ; 5. We have
a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he
made himself the Son of God. C. When Pilate there
fore heard that saying, he was the more afraid : and
went again into the judgement-hall, and saith unto
Jesus : 5. Whence art thou ? C. But Jesus gave him
no answer. Then saith Pilate unto him : 5. Speakest
thou not unto me ? Knowest thou not that I have
power to crucify thee, and have power to release
thee ? C. Jesus answered : >& Thou couldest have no
power at all against me, except it were given thee
from above : therefore he that delivered me unto
thee hath the greater sin. C. And from thenceforth
Pilate sought to release him : but the Jews cried out,
saying : 5. If thou let this man go, thou art not
Caesar s friend : whosoever maketh himself a king
speaketh against Caesar. C. When Pilate therefore
heard that saying, he brought Jesus forth, and sat
down in the judgment seat, in a place that is called
the Pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha. And
it was the preparation of the passover, and about the
sixth hour, and he saith unto the Jews : 5. Behold
your King ! C. But they cried out : 5. Away with
him, away with him, crucify him. C. Pilate saith unto
them : 5. Shall I crucify your King ? C. The chief
priests answered : 5. We have no king but Caesar.
C. Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be
crucified : and they took Jesus, and led him away.
And he, bearing his cross, went forth into a place
called the place of a skull, which is called in the
Hebrew, Golgotha : where they crucified him, and
two other with him, on either side one, and Jesus in
the midst. And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the
cross, and the writing was : JESUS OF NAZARETH
THE KING OF THE JEWS. This title then read



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many of the Jews, for the place where Jesus was
crucified was nigh to the city : and it was written in
Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin. Then said the chief
priests of the Jews to Pilate : 5. Write not, The
King of the Jews : but that he said : I am the King
of the Jews. C. Pilate answered : S. What I have
written, I have written. C. Then the soldiers, when
they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and
made four parts, to every soldier a part ; and also
his coat : now the coat was without seam, woven
from the top throughout. They said therefore
among themselves : 5. Let us not rend it, but cast
lots for it, whose it shall be. C. That the Scripture
might be fulfilled, which saith : They parted my
raiment among them, and for my vesture they did
cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did.
Now there stood by the cross of Jesus, his mother,
and his mother s sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas,
and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus therefore saw his
mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved,
he saith unto his mother : >J< Woman, behold thy son.
C. Then saith he to the disciple : *Z< Behold thy
mother. C. And from that hour that disciple took
her unto his own home. After this, Jesus, knowing
that all things were now accomplished : that the
Scripture might be fulfilled, saith : ^ I thirst. C. Now
there was set a vessel full of vinegar : and they filled
a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and
put it to his mouth. When Jesus therefore had
received the vinegar, he said : >J< It is finished. C. And
he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost. (Here
genuflect, and a pause is made.).

The rest is sung in the tone of the Gospel : Cleanse
my heart is said, but the blessing is not asked, nor are
lights carried nor incense, and at the end the Celebrant
does not kiss the book.



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The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation,
that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on
the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high
day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken,
and that they might be taken away. Then came the
soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the
other which was crucified with him. But when they
came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already,
they brake not his legs : but one of the soldiers with
a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out
blood and water. And he that saw it bare record,
and his record is true : and he knoweth that he saith
true, that ye might believe. For these things were
done, that the Scripture should be fulfilled : A bone
of him shall not be broken. And again another
Scripture saith : They shall look on him whom they
pierced.

Then the Priest, standing at the Epistle horn of the
A liar, shall begin immediately with joined hands :

EARLY beloved brethren, let us pray for the holy
Catholic Church : that the Lord our God may
vouchsafe to preserve it throughout all the world in
unity, peace and safety : making subject unto it all
principalities and powers : and that he may grant
unto us to dwell in such quiet and tranquillity that
we may duly shew forth the glory of God the Father
Almighty.

Let us pray. Deacon : Let us bow the knee.
Subdeacon : B?. Arise.

The Prayer is chanted in the ferial tone of the Collect
at Mass, with hands extended. Which method shall
serve for all the Prayers that follow.



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