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Ideas from The Liturgy of the Hours:
Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion
+ Morning Prayer +
Latin Hymn En acetum, fel, arundo including Crux fidelis inter omnes
Psalmody
- Psalm 118
Antiphon The great crowd that had gathered for the feast cried out to the Lord: Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest.
- Daniel 3:52-57
Antiphon God grant that with the angels and the children we may be faithful, and sing with them to the conqueror of death: Hosanna in the highest.
- Psalm 150
Antiphon Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord; peace in heaven and glory in the highest.
Reading Zechariah 9:9
Responsory
[excerpt] By your own blood, Lord, you brought us back to God; from every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation, you brought us back to God.
Benedictus Antiphon
With palms let us welcome the Lord as he comes;
with songs and hymns let us run to meet him,
as we offer him our joyful worship and sing: Blessed be the Lord!
Intercessions
[response] Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.
+ Daytime Prayer +
Midmorning
- Antiphon: Before the feast of Passover Jesus knew that his hour had come; he had always loved those who were his own, and now he would show them the depth of his love.
- Reading: II Corinthians 4:10-12
- Response: He freely gave himself up in sacrifice; he said no word in his own defense.
Midday
- Antiphon: I know my own sheep, and my own know me, as the Father knows me and as I know the Father; and I lay down my life for my sheep.
- Reading: I Peter 4:13-14
- Response: Ours were the sufferings he bore; ours the weight of guilt he endured.
Midafternoon
- Antiphon: For to me life is Christ and death is gain. I glory in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- Reading: I Peter 5:10-11
- Response: Let us venerate the cross; through it we have received the sacrament of salvation.
+ Evening Prayer II +
Latin Hymn Vexilla regis prodeunt including O crux ave spes unica
Psalmody
- Psalm 110:1-5,7
Antiphon Christ was scourged and treated with contempt, but God's right hand has raised him up.
- Psalm 115
Antiphon The blood of Christ washes away our sins and makes us worthy to serve the living God.
- I Peter 2:21-24
Antiphon 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.
Reading Acts of the Apostles 13:26-30
Responsory
[excerpt] We worship you, O Christ, and we praise you; because by your cross you have redeemed the world.
Magnificat Antiphon
It is written: I will strike the shepherd and his flock shall be scattered.
But when I have risen, I will go before you into Galilee.
There you shall see me, says the Lord.
Intercessions
[response] Sanctify your people, redeemed by your blood.
The English translation of the Antiphons, Responsories, and Intercession Responses are from: The Divine Office: The Liturgy of the Hours, © Copyright 1970, 1973, 1975 International Committee on English in the Liturgy, Inc. All rights reserved.
Excerpts from the Readings are taken from the New American Standard Bible ® © Copyright 1973 The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.
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