Good Friday
many of the Jews, for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin. Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate: S. Write not, The King of the Jews: but that he said: I am the King of the Jews. C. Pilate answered: S. What I have written, I have written. C. Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. They said therefore among themselves: S. Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be. C. That the Scripture might be fulfilled, which saith: They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did. Now there stood by the cross of Jesus, his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother: ✠ Woman, behold thy son. C. Then saith he to the disciple: ✠ Behold thy mother. C. And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home. After this, Jesus, knowing that all things were now accomplished: that the Scripture might be fulfilled, saith: ✠ I thirst. C. Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth. When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said: ✠ It is finished. C. And he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost. (Here genuflect, and a pause is made.)
The rest is sung in the tone of the Gospel: Cleanse my heart is said, but the blessing is not asked, nor are lights carried nor incense, and at the end the Celebrant does not kiss the book.
