7. Then the celebrant and the sacred ministers [and the servers] go to the high altar, bow, rise and begin the stripping of the altars as follows.
The celebrant says the following antiphon in a clear voice :
Psalm 21, 19. Divisérunt sibi vestiménta mea : et super vestem meam misérunt sortem.
Adding the intonation of the same psalm.
1. Deus, Deus meus, réspice in me : quare me dereliquisti? *
The chorus continue the recitation of this psalm until the stripping of the altars is completed.
The clergy, if any are present, continue the recitation of this psalm
until the stripping of the altars is finished; otherwise the celebrant
says the antiphon and the first verse only of the psalm before stripping
the high altar.
longe a salúte mea verba delictórum meórum. (P. 749 Liber Usualis 1962 ed.)
Or, according to the new psalter:
Ant. Dividunt sibi vestiménta mea, et de veste mea mittunt sortem.
Ps. Deus meus, Deus meus, quare me dereliquísti? (P. 44 Liber Usualis 1962 ed.)
The
celebrant and the sacred ministers [or servers] strip all the altars in
the church except the one where the Blessed Sacrament is solemnly
adored.
After stripping the altars they return to the high altar, and when the
celebrant has repeated the antiphon Diviserunt or Dividunt they return
to the sacristy.
8. Those who assist at the evening Mass do not say VESPERS to-day.
9. COMPLINE is recited in choir immediately afterwards; the candles are not lit and the office is not sung.
4. When the altar of Repose is reached, the celebrant (helped by the deacon if necessary) puts down the ciborium on the altar. He then kneels, puts incense in the thurible and censes the Blessed Sacrament: meanwhile the Tantum ergo is sung.
Then the deacon [or the celebrant himself] puts the ciborium into the tabernacle or casket.
5. All then kneel and silently adore the Blessed Sacrament for a little while. When the sign is given, the celebrant and the sacred ministers [and the servers] rise, genuflect on both knees and bow, and then return to the sacristy, where the celebrant and the sacred ministers take off their white vestments. The celebrant and the deacon put on purple stoles.
6. If several ciboria need to be transferred, the same celebrant (or another priest or deacon, vested in a surplice, a white stole and a white humeral veil) carries them to the altar of Repose before the stripping of the altars is begun. He should do this in a simple way i. e. with two acolytes [servers] carrying lighted candles and another holding the ombrellino.
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