Jerúsalem, surge, et éxue te véstibus jucunditátis: indúere cínere et cilício, quia in te occísus est Salvátor Israël...

R. Æstimátus sum cum descendéntibus in lacum:
* Factus sum sicut homo sine adjutório, inter mórtuos liber.
V. Posuérunt me in lacu inferióri, in tenebrósis, et in umbra mortis.
R. Factus sum sicut homo sine adjutório, inter mórtuos liber.











R. Sepúlto Dómino, signátum est monuméntum, volvéntes lápidem ad óstium monuménti:
* Ponéntes mílites, qui custodírent illum.
V. Accedéntes príncipes sacerdótum ad Pilátum, petiérunt illum.
R. Ponéntes mílites, qui custodírent illum.
Gloria omittitur
R. Sepúlto Dómino, signátum est monuméntum, volvéntes lápidem ad óstium monuménti: * Ponéntes mílites, qui custodírent illum.







Today is Holy Saturday
in Great and Holy Week, in which was and is accomplished the work of our and of the world's salvation. In silence we mark today the descent of Our Lord to the underworld, Life in death, from where, from the Limbo of the righteous, He released the captives, beginning with our Parents Adam and Eve, so long suffering. No Mass is celebrated today and Tenebrae of Holy Saturday was sung yesterday evening (although 
I will have prayed the Night Office before Dawn today, having already followed those Hours sung at Saint-Eugène, here)

The Martyrology is not sung or recited at Prime during the Triduum Sacrum.





The Paschal Vigil is begun at the end of the day (0630ish, Pacific Time, eh) and the Mass of Easter is sung in the morning tomorrow of course: the culmination of the Sacred Triduum and the highest of the year's liturgical days.  The link to the Paschal Vigil as it is kept at Saint-Eugène is here; am not going to reproduce all the texts on this page. 


Spíritum nobis, Dómine, tuæ caritátis infúnde: ut, quos sacraméntis paschálibus satiásti, tua fácias pietáte concórdes. Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum Fílium tuum, qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti Deus, per ómnia sæcula sæculórum.

R/. Amen.














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