Friday Office in Eastertide

℣. The Lord is risen indeed, alleluia.

℟. And hath appeared to Simon, alleluia.

Our Father.

Absolution.

HIS love and pity succour us, Who with the Father and the Holy Ghost, liveth and reigneth world without end.

℟. Amen.

Bened. The reading of the Gospel be unto us salvation and protection.

℟. Amen.

Lesson from the holy Gospel according to Matthew.

Lesson i. ch. 28.

AT that time: The eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them. And the rest.

Homily of S. Jerome, Presbyt.

Comment. on Matt. b. 4.

AFTER His resurrection, Jesus is seen in a mountain of Galilee, and there is worshipped, though some doubt; ¹ and these doubts of theirs, let them increase our faith. There was He more plainly revealed to Thomas, and shewed His side wounded by the spear, and His hands pierced by the nails. ‘And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto Me in heaven and in earth.’ ² To Him ‘all power is given,’ Who a little while before was crucified, buried in the Sepulchre, lay dead, then rose again. And it is given ‘in heaven and in earth,’ that He who before reigned in heaven, may by the faith of believers reign also on earth. But Thou.

℟. Our Lord Jesus Christ, when He was risen, stood in the midst of His disciples, and said unto them, * Peace be unto you, alleluia: then were the disciples glad when they saw the Lord, alleluia.

℣. Now the first day of the week, when the doors were shut, where the disciples were assembled, came Jesus, and stood in the midst, and saith unto them.—Peace be unto you.

Benediction. The divine assistance remain with us for ever.

℟. Amen.

Lesson ii.

‘GO ye, therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.’ First, they teach all nations; next, when taught, they baptize them. For the body cannot receive the Sacrament of Baptism unless the mind have previously embraced the verity of the faith. But they are baptized ‘in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost,’ that as the Godhead of These is one, so Their Gift might be one; and the name of the Trinity is one God. But Thou.

℟. Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump; for Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us: * Therefore let us keep the feast in the Lord, alleluia.

℣. He died for our sins, and rose again for our justification.—Therefore. Glory be to the Father. Therefore.

Benediction. The King of Angels lead us on to the fellowship of the inhabitants of heaven.

℟. Amen.

Lesson iii.

‘TEACHING them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you.’ The order is very important. He enjoined the Apostles, first, to teach all nations; next, to imbue them with the Sacrament of Faith; then, after faith and baptism, to give them precepts to be obeyed. And lest we should think that the things enjoined were few and trivial, He has added, ‘all things whatsoever I have commanded you;’ that whoever believed, and was baptised in the Trinity, should perform all that was commanded. ‘And lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.’ In that He promises to be with His disciples ‘even unto the end of the world,’ He shews both that they should live for ever, and that He could never depart from believers. But Thou.

We praise Thee, O God, p. lxiv.

At the Benedictus, Antiph.

The eleven disciples, when they saw the Lord in Galilee, worshipped Him, alleluia.

Collect.

ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who hast ordained the Paschal Sacrament in the covenant of Thy reconciliation with mankind; grant that what we professedly solemnise, we may effectually imitate. Through our Lord.

At the Magnificat, Antiph.

All power is given unto Me in heaven and in earth, alleluia.

1. S. Matt. xxviii. 17.
2. Ver. 2.