OFFICES FOR HOLY WEEK AND EASTER, AFTER THE PRIMER USE, TOGETHER WITH editations and Prayers on the Passion. PREPARED AND EDITED BY THE REV. GERARD MOULTRIE, M.A., DONATIVE CHAPLAIN OF BARROW GURNEY, BRISTOL. Dedicated to the Bishop of Salisbury. "CHRIST SUFFERED FOR US, LEAVING US AN EXAMPLE THAT WE litis LONDON: JOSEPH MASTERS, ALDERSGATE STREET, AND NEW BOND STREET. PLAIN DIRECTIONS. THESE Offices are intended principally for solitary use and meditation by those who would follow their Lord along the Painful Way. The Responsories, &c., are therefore drawn entirely from Holy Scripture, and are so arranged that Type may be contrasted with Antitype, in reference either to the day or the preceding Lesson. The whole Office, if used in solitude, may therefore be read straight through. The Offices however are prepared also with a view to use in family prayers, or in the Oratory, or by two persons together. When so used the Responsories after the Lessons should be recited thus: the R7. in Response by all except the reader, the . by the reader alone, and the Reclamation (the following verse, or verses, not preceded by any letter) by all together including the reader. But when the Gloria is used in the Reclamation it should be recited by the reader alone. Litanies are given at the end of the book for use after Matins. |