Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini (Maundy Thursday): ad Matutinum et Laudes (Tenebrae)

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Liber Usualis 1961 ed.
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Liber Usualis 1953 ed.
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621

Tenebrae of Maundy Thursday.

On this and the two following nights Matins and Lauds are always said together, and these Three Services are commonly called the Three Nights of Darkness.  In Choir six lights are lighted upon the Altar, and fifteen (seven on each side and one at the top) in a triangle-shaped candlestick before the Epistle corner.  As each Antiphon is repeated the second time, one of the fifteen candles is put out.

The Antiphons are all doubled, and the Doxology Gloria Patri is everywhere omitted.

Proper Liturgical Usage: 
Matins
Lauds
Proper Liturgical Time: 
Feria Quinta in Coena Domini (Maundy Thursday)
Proper Liturgical Day: 
Thursday
Votive: 
F
Composition Type: 
Matins
Lauds
Texture: 
Monophonic
Voices: 
Unison
Language: 
Latin
Greek
Hebrew
Difficulty: 
Moderate
Musical Style: 
Gregorian

Parts

STAND and PROFOUND INCLINATION

Pater. (silentio)
Note: Ave and Credo suppressed in 1955-62 editions.
Ave. (silentio)

Credo. (silentio)

Ad Matutinum

IN I NOCTURNO
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Matutinum: in I Nocturno: Antiphona I "Zelus domus"
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Matutinum: in I Nocturno: Psalmus LXVIII
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Matutinum: in I Nocturno: Antiphona II "Avertantur"
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Matutinum: in I Nocturno: Psalmus LXIX
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Matutinum: in I Nocturno: Antiphona III "Deus meus"
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Matutinum: in I Nocturno: Psalmus LXX
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Matutinum: in I Nocturno: Versiculus "Avertantur"

Pater. (silentio)
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Matutinum: in I Nocturno: Versiculus "Avertantur" (Alternate Setting)

Optional alternate setting of above.
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Matutinum: in I Nocturno: Lectio I: Lamentatio "Aleph"
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Matutinum: in I Nocturno: Responsorium I: "In monte"
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Matutinum: in I Nocturno: Lectio II: Lamentatio "Vau"
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Matutinum: in I Nocturno: Responsorium II: "Tristis est"
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Matutinum: in I Nocturno: Lectio III: Lamentatio "Jod"
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Matutinum: in I Nocturno: Responsorium III: "Ecce vidimus"

Here Endeth the first nocturn.

IN II NOCTURNO
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Matutinum: in II Nocturno: Antiphona I "Liberavit Dominus"
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Matutinum: in II Nocturno: Psalmus LXXI
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Matutinum: in II Nocturno: Antiphona II "Cogitaverunt"
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Matutinum: in II Nocturno: Psalmus LXXII
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Matutinum: in II Nocturno: Antiphona III "Exsurge, Domine"
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Matutinum: in II Nocturno: Psalmus LXXIII
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Matutinum: in II Nocturno: Versiculus "Deus meus"

Pater. (silentio)
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Matutinum: in II Nocturno: Versiculus "Deus meus" (Alternate Setting)

Optional alternate setting of above.
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Matutinum: in II Nocturno: Lectio IV
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Matutinum: in II Nocturno: Responsorium IV: "Amicus meus"
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Matutinum: in II Nocturno: Lectio V
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Matutinum: in II Nocturno: Responsorium V: "Judas mercator"
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Matutinum: in II Nocturno: Lectio VI
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Matutinum: in II Nocturno: Responsorium VI: "Unus ex discipulis"

Here Endeth the second nocturn.

IN III NOCTURNO
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Matutinum: in III Nocturno: Antiphona I "Dixi iniquis"
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Matutinum: in III Nocturno: Psalmus LXXIV
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Matutinum: in III Nocturno: Antiphona II "Terra tremuit"
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Matutinum: in III Nocturno: Psalmus LXXV
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Matutinum: in III Nocturno: Antiphona III "In die tribulatione"
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Matutinum: in III Nocturno: Psalmus LXXVI
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Matutinum: in III Nocturno: Versiculus "Exsurge, Domine"

Pater. (silentio)
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Matutinum: in III Nocturno: Versiculus "Exsurge, Domine" (Alternate Setting)

Optional alternate setting of above.
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Matutinum: in III Nocturno: Lectio VII
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Matutinum: in III Nocturno: Responsorium VII: "Eram quasi agnus"
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Matutinum: in III Nocturno: Lectio VIII
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Matutinum: in III Nocturno: Responsorium VIII: "Una hora"
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Matutinum: in III Nocturno: Lectio IX
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Matutinum: in III Nocturno: Responsorium IX: "Seniores populi"

Here endeth Matins.

Ad Laudes
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Laudes: Antiphona I "Justificeris"
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Laudes: Psalmus L
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Laudes: Antiphona II "Dominus tamquam ovis"
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Laudes: Psalmus LXXXIX
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Laudes: Antiphona III "Contritum est"
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Laudes: Psalmus XXXV
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Laudes: Antiphona IV "Exhortatus es"
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Laudes: Canticum Moysis
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Laudes: Antiphona V "Oblatus est"
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Laudes: Psalmus CXLVI

STAND (after repeating Oblatus est)
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Laudes: Versiculus "Homo pacis"
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Laudes: Versiculus "Homo pacis" (Alternate Setting)

Optional alternate setting of above.
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Laudes: Antiphona ad Benedictus "Traditor autem"

While the Canticle Benedictus is being sung, (all the candles in the hearse having been extinguished, except the one placed on the highest point of the hearse,) there are extinguished the six candles on the Altar, so that, at the last verse, the last candle is extinguished; in like manner the lamps and lights throughout the church are extinguished.
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Laudes: Canticum Zachariae

After the repetition of the Ant. Traditor autem the highest candle is taken from the hearse and is concealed beneath the Altar on the Epistle side.

KNEEL
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Laudes: Antiphona "Christus factus est"

Thereafter, Ps. 50, Miserere, is said in a barely audible tone.

Note: Miserere suppressed in 1955-62 editions.
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Laudes: Psalmus L

After this Psalm is finished, without Oremus there is said in a similar tone the Collect.
Propers from the Liber Usualis: Feria Quinta in Coena Domini: ad Laudes: Collect

When the Collect is finished, there is made a certain amount of noise and clatter; and at once the lighted candle is brought forth from beneath the Altar, and all arise, and depart in silence.