Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion
April 18, 2025
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Responsorial: Psalm 31
R: Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.
Presentation of the Cross:
Presider: Behold the wood of the Cross,
on which hung the salvation of the world.
Response: Come, let us adore.
Veneration of the Cross 1: Reproaches
Veneration of the Cross 2: What Wondrous Love is This (RS 807)
What wondrous love is this, O my soul, O my soul?
What wondrous love is this, O my soul?
What wondrous love is this
that caused the Lord of bliss
To bear the dreadful curse for my soul, for my soul;
To bear the dreadful curse for my soul?
To God and to the Lamb I will sing, I will sing;
To God and to the Lamb, I will sing;
To God and to the Lamb
who is the great I Am,
While millions join the theme, I will sing, I will sing;
While millions join the theme, I will sing.
And when from death I’m free, I’ll sing on, I’ll sing on;
And when from death I’m free, I’ll sing on;
And when from death I’m free,
I’ll sing and joyful be,
And through eternity I’ll sing on, I’ll sing on!
And through eternity I’ll sing on.
Text: Alexander Means, 1801-1853 Reprinted with permission under ONE LICENSE License #A-727305.
Veneration of the Cross 3: O Vos Omnes
Veneration of the Cross 4: Crucem Tuam (RS 602)
Text: Taizé community, 1991 Tune: Jacques Berthier, 1923-1994 © 1984, Les Presses de Taizé
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Communion Hymn 1: Christus factus est
Communion Hymn 2: O Sacred Head Surrounded (RS 598)
O Sacred Head surrounded
By crown of piercing thorn!
O bleeding Head, so wounded,
Reviled and put to scorn!
The pow’r of death comes o’er you,
The glow of life decays,
Yet angel hosts adore you,
And tremble as they gaze.
I see your strength and vigor
All fading in the strife,
And death with cruel rigor,
Bereaving you of life;
O agony and dying!
O love to sinners free!
Jesus, all grace supplying,
O turn your face on me.
In this, your bitter passion,
Good Shepherd, think of me
With your most sweet compassion,
Unworthy though I be:
Beneath your cross abiding
For ever would I rest,
In your dear love confiding,
And with your presence blest.
Text: Salve caput cruentatum; ascr. to Bernard of Clairvaux, 1091-1153; tr. by Henry Baker, 1821-1877
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Communion Hymn 3: God So Loved the World
Communion Hymn 4: Adoramus Te (RS 582)
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Communion Hymn 5 : Adoramus Te Christe
Communion Hymn 6: Glory Be to Jesus
Glory be to Jesus,
Who in bitter pains
Poured for me the life-blood
From His sacred veins!
Grace and life eternal
In that blood I find;
Blest be His compassion,
Infinitely kind!
Blest through endless ages
Be the precious stream
Which from sin and sorrow
Doth the world redeem!
Oft as earth exulting
Wafts its praise on high,
Angel hosts rejoicing
Make their glad reply.
Lift ye then your voices,
Swell the mighty flood;
Louder still and louder
Praise the precious blood!
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