Ad Completorium
The Evening Lament
The office begins with a call to repentance and the recitation of a psalm of lamentation.
V. Turn us back, O God our Savior.✦ R. And turn your anger away from us.✦ O God, come to my help, etc.✦1 Antiphon. They will mourn him as an only son, because the innocent Lord has been slain.✦ Psalm 87.2 Lord, God of my salvation, etc.
Resting in the Tomb
A hymn reflecting on Christ's burial and the redemptive power of his blood.
Hymn. You who lay dead in the rock, blameless King: make us rest in you, and lead a holy life. Help us, Lord—those you redeemed by your blood—and lead us to the heavenly joys of eternal peace.✦ Praise and honor to Christ, who was sold and betrayed without cause, and who suffered death for the people on the harsh cross.✦3 Amen.
Armed with the Passion
A scriptural reading and response calling the faithful to adopt the mindset of Christ's suffering.
Chapter. Since Christ has suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same resolve. Response. Thanks be to God. Versicle. And his place was established in peace. Response. And his dwelling is in Zion.
The Nunc Dimittis and Final Supplication
The office concludes with the Canticle of Simeon, the Lord's Prayer, and a final petition for compunction.
Antiphon. Savior of the world, save us—you who redeemed us by the cross and by blood. Help us; we beg you, our God. Canticle of Simeon, Luke 2:29. Now you let your servant go, etc.4 Lord, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. Lord, have mercy. Our Father.✦ Prayer. Lord Jesus Christ, who rested in the tomb at the last hour of the day, and were mourned and lamented by your most sorrowful Mother and by the other women: make us, we pray, overflow with tears through compunction for your Passion, and with the whole devotion of our heart always mourn that Passion of yours, and keep it as if it were still fresh, in burning desire.✦ Who live and reign, etc.5
Read the original Latin
V. Converte nos, Deus salutaris noster. R. Et averte iram tuam a nobis. Deus, in adiutorium meum intende etc. Antiph. Plangent eum quasi unigenitum, quia innocens Dominus occisus est. Psalmus 87.
Domine Deus salutis meae etc.
Hymnus. Qui iacuisti mortuus In petra rex innocuus, Fac nos in te quiescere, Sanctamque vitam ducere. Succurre nobis, Domine, Quos redemisti sanguine, Et duc nos ad caelestia Aeternae pacis gaudia. Laus, honor Christo vendito Et sine causa prodito, Mortem passo pro populo In aspero patibulo. Amen.
Capitulum. Christo in carne passo, et vos eadem cogitatione armamini. R. Deo gratias. V. Et factus est in pace locus eius. R. Et habitatio eius in Sion.
Antiph. Salvator mundi, salva nos, qui per crucem et sanguinem redemisti nos, auxiliare nobis, te deprecamur, Deus noster. Canticum Simeonis, Luc. 2, 29. Nunc dimittis etc. Kyrie eleison. Christe eleison. Kyrie eleison.
Pater noster. Oratio. Domine Iesu Christe, qui hora diei ultima in sepulcro quievisti, et a Matre tua moestissima et ab aliis mulieribus planctus et lamentatus fuisti: fac nos, quaesumus, passionis tuae compunctione lacrymis abundare et tota cordis devotione ipsam passionem tuam semper plangere eamque quasi recentem in ardenti desiderio retinere. Qui vivis et regnas etc.
Scripture echoes
- ↩Ps.85.5 — Restore us, O God of our salvation, and break off your anger against us.
- ↩Ps.85.5 — Restore us, O God of our salvation, and break off your anger against us.
- ↩Ps.70.2 — O God, come quickly to save me; O LORD, hurry to help me.
- ↩Zech.12.10 — And I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication; and they will look to me, the one they pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves bitterly for a firstborn.
- ↩1Pet.1.18-1Pet.1.19;Rev.5.9 — knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things—silver or gold—from your futile way of life handed down from your fathers, 1Pet.1.19 — but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot Rev.5.9 — And they sing a new song, saying: 'You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed for God people from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.'
- ↩John.11.50-John.11.52 — You do not consider that it is better for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation should not perish. John.11.51 — Now he did not say this on his own, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was about to die for the nation— John.11.52 — and not for the nation only, but in order that he might also gather into one the children of God who are scattered.
- ↩Matt.6.9-Matt.6.13;Luke.11.2-Luke.11.4 — Pray then like this: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Matt.6.10 — Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Matt.6.11 — Give us today our daily bread. Matt.6.12 — And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. Matt.6.13 — And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. Luke.11.2 — He said to them, "When you pray, say: Father, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come." Luke.11.3 — Give us each day our daily bread. Luke.11.4 — and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And do not bring us into temptation.
- ↩Matt.27.57-Matt.27.61;Mark.15.42-Mark.15.47;Luke.23.50-Luke.23.56;John.19.38-John.19.42 — When evening had come, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who also himself had been a disciple of Jesus. Matt.27.58 — This man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered it to be given to him. Matt.27.59 — And Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth. Matt.27.60 — and he laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut out in the rock; and having rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb, he departed. Matt.27.61 — Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were there, sitting opposite the tomb. Mark.15.42 — And when evening had already come, since it was the Preparation, that is, the day before the Sabbath, Mark.15.43 — Joseph, who was from Arimathea, a respected member of the council, who was also himself waiting for the kingdom of God, took courage and went in to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Mark.15.44 — Pilate was amazed that he had already died, and summoning the centurion, he asked whether Jesus had been dead for some time. Mark.15.45 — And when he learned it from the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph. Mark.15.46 — And Joseph bought a linen cloth, took him down, wrapped him in the linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb that had been cut out of rock. Then he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb. Mark.15.47 — Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses watched where he was laid. Luke.23.50 — And behold, a man named Joseph, a member of the council, who was a good and righteous man Luke.23.51 — This man had not agreed with their plan and their action — he was from Arimathea, a city of the Jews — and he was waiting for the kingdom of God. Luke.23.52 — This man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Luke.23.53 — And he took it down, wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a tomb cut in stone, where no one had yet been laid. Luke.23.54 — It was the day of Preparation, and the Sabbath was dawning. Luke.23.55 — The women who had come with him from Galilee followed and saw the tomb and how his body was laid. Luke.23.56 — Then they returned and prepared spices and ointments. And on the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment. John.19.38 — After these things, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus—but secretly, for fear of the Jews—asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus. And Pilate granted permission. So he came and took away his body. John.19.39 — Nicodemus also came—the one who had come to him by night at first—bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred litras in weight. John.19.40 — So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews. John.19.41 — Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid. John.19.42 — There therefore, because of the Jewish day of preparation—since the tomb was nearby—they laid Jesus.
Notes
- 1 ↩Incipit of the fixed Divine Office opening (Vulgate Ps 69:2); 'etc.' marks the customary continuation, not supplied in full here.
- 2 ↩Numbering follows the Vulgate psalter as printed in the source; later Moses/ref-map resolution may align Hebrew/English numbering (often Psalm 88).
- 3 ↩patibulo: literally the gibbet/cross-beam; rendered as 'cross' for Passion-office clarity.
- 4 ↩Liturgical incipit of the Nunc dimittis (Luke 2:29ff.), abbreviated with etc. in the source; rendered from the Latin incipit only, not expanded from the full canticle.
- 5 ↩Liturgical closing formula abbreviated with etc.; full Trinitarian doxology is not supplied in the source.
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