TUESDAY IN EASTER

WEEK

AT MATINS.

The Our Father, Hail Mary, and I believe are said silently.

V. O Lord, open thou my lips. R. And my mouth shall show forth thy praise.

V. O God, make speed to save

me.

R. O Lord, make haste to help me. V. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost;

As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, * world without end. Amen. Alleluia.

The Invitatory. The Lord is risen indeed, * alleluia.

R. The Lord is risen indeed, * alleluia.

Psalm 95. Venite, exultemus Domino.

O COME, let us sing unto the

Lord: * let us heartily rejoice in

the strength of our salvation.

Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, * and show ourselves glad in him with psalms.

V. The Lord is risen indeed, * alleluia.

For the Lord is a great God, * and a great King above all gods.

In his hand are all the corners of the earth and the strength of the hills is his also.

R. Alleluia.

The sea is his, and he made it:* and his hands prepared the dry land. O come, let us worship and fall down: * and kneel before the Lord our Maker.

For he is the Lord our God; * and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand.

R. The Lord is risen indeed, * alleluia.

To-day if ye will hear his voice harden not your hearts, * as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness;

When your fathers tempted me, * proved me and saw my works. R. Alleluia.

Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, * It is a people that do err in their hearts, for they have not known my ways;

Unto whom I sware in my wrath * that they should not enter into my rest. R. The Lord is risen indeed, * alleluia.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost;

As it was in the beginning, + is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

R. Alleluia.

V. The Lord is risen indeed, † * alleluia.

The Nocturn.

Antiphon. I am that I am, † * and my counsel is not with the ungodly, but my delight is in the law of the Lord, alleluia.

Psalm 1. Beatus vir qui non abiit.

BLESSE

LESSED is the man that hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, * and hath not sat in the seat of the scornful.

But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law will he exercise himself day and night.

And he shall be like a tree planted by the water-side, * that will bring forth his fruit in due season.

His leaf also shall not wither; * and look, whatsoever he doeth it shall prosper.

As for the ungodly, it is not so with them but they are like the chaff, which the wind scattereth away from the face of the earth.

Therefore the ungodly shall not be able to stand in the judgment, * neither the sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

But the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous and the way of the ungodly shall perish.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost;

As it was in the beginning, + is now, and ever shall be, * world without end. Amen.

Antiphon. I am that I am, * and my counsel is not with the ungodly, but my delight is in the law of the Lord, alleluia.

Antiphon. I desired of my Father, + * alleluia, and he gave me the heathen, alleluia, for mine inheritance, alleluia.

Psalm 2. Quare fremuerunt gentes ?

WHY

HY do the heathen so furiously rage together, ✶ and why do the people imagine a vain thing?

The kings of the earth stand up, and the rulers take counsel together, * against the Lord, and against his Anointed:

Let us break their bonds asunder, * and cast away their cords from us.

He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh them to scorn: * the Lord shall have them in derison.

Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure:

Yet have I set my King ✶ upon my holy hill of Sion.

I will preach the law, whereof the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.

Desire of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, * and the utmost parts of the earth for thy possession.

Thou shalt bruise them with a rod of iron; * and break them in pieces like a potter's vessel.

Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: * be learned, ye that are judges of the earth.

Serve the Lord in fear, * and rejoice unto him with reverence.

Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and so ye perish from the right way, + if his wrath be kindled, yea, but a little. * Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost;

As it was in the beginning, † is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Antiphon. I desired of my Father, * alleluia, and he gave me the heathen, alleluia, for mine inheritance, alleluia.

Antiphon. I laid me down † and slept, and rose up again; for the Lord sustained me, alleluia, alleluia.