Good Friday

Celebration of Our Lord's Passion.

Overview

Communion Service, with #Adoration of the Holy Cross.

Roles

• Master of Ceremonies
• Candle bearer 1
• Candle bearer 2
• Acolyte 1
• Acolyte 2
• Book Bearer

Preparation

• Crossing Altar: bare, no cloths, candles, or crucifix.
• Credence Table:
  • Altar cloth, folded and rolled up.
  • Three Corporals in a red Burse
  • Lavabo
  • Water cruet (no wine)
  • Two purificators(s) for the crucifix.
  • Bracket for Veneration Crucifix (under).
  • [[Hockey Puck Mic]], turned on but muted. Plug it in to charge during morning rehearsal.
• Tabernacle empty, no veil, lamps extinguished.
• Niche leading to Rosary Altar:
  • Two standard Processional Candles in niche leading to Rosary Altar. Use unbleached candles.
  • Taper.
• Altar of repose (Rosary Altar):
  • Other decoration removed.
  • Cloth, Corporal, and Tabernacle key present.
  • Humeral Veil draped over altar rail.
  • Sanctuary lamp (red sconce) lit.
• Sacristy:
  • Wooden Processional Candles (the ones from the Baptistery), with unbleached candles. Lighter nearby.
  • Veneration Crucifix veiled and pinned, so as to be easy to remove.

Order of Liturgy

Entrance

All Servers except Candle bearers start in Choir Stalls#Low.

• Candle bearers, empty-handed, clap the Crotalus and precede the Ministers through the Lourde's Door and proceed directly to the foot of the Sanctuary.
• Form up at the foot of the Sanctuary: Candle bearer 1, Priest, Deacon, Candle bearer 2.
• The Ministers prostrate, and the Servers and people kneel while they do so.
• The Ministers and Servers stand, Profound Bow, and enter the Sanctuary.

Opening Prayers

Book Bearer attends with Missal immediately for the whole opening sequence.

Readings, Gradual, Tract, Gospel, Homily

As usual for Roman Rite Solemn Mass, except:

• There is no Gospel Procession, using neither Processional Candles nor incense.
• During the Tract, an Acolyte places the [[Hockey Puck Mic]] on the Altar, unmutes it, and returns to his Choir Stall.
• All kneel at the appropriate time during the Gospel.
• When the Gospel is finished, an Acolyte mutes the [[Hockey Puck Mic]] and returns it to the Credence Table.

Solemn Intercessions

• Book Bearer holds the Missal for the Solemn Intercessions, which the Priest reads at his seat, and another friar reads from the Gospel side lectern.
• All Servers, except the Book Bearer, kneel/stand at Let us kneel/Let us stand. Book Bearer steps back at these times to allow the Priest and Deacon to kneel, then steps forward again when they stand.

Adoration of the Holy Cross

Immediately following the #Solemn Intercessions:

• Candle bearers:
  • Take off shoes, leaving them in the Choir Stalls.
  • Go to the Sacristy with Ministers by way of the Passageway, making a Profound Bow along the way.
  • Light and carry the Processional Candles.
• All other Servers:
  • Remain in Choir Stalls#Low and remove shoes. Leave shoes in Choir Stalls.

Procession

Candle bearers flank Veneration Crucifix with Processional Candles.

• Order:
  • Cantors.
  • Candle bearer 1, Processional Crucifix, Candle bearer 2.
  • Attending friar.
• Route: Three stops. At each, Behold the wood of the cross / Come let us adore him.
  1. Process from Lourde's Door to foot of the Friars' Chapel.
  2. Process to the middle of the Sanctuary, centered between the Choir Stalls on the black strip of flooring near the West edge of the Choir Stalls.
  3. Process into the Presbytery and stop just after the top step, on the floor of the Presbytery.
• At each stop, the Candle bearers:
  • Leave room on either side of the Veneration Crucifix for the attending friar to partially unveil it.
  • Turn inward and face the Veneration Crucifix.
• Priest stands on the steps of the Presbytery holding the Veneration Crucifix. Candle bearers flank him, turned inward, with Processional Candles, where they stand for the duration of the #Friars' Veneration.

Friars' Veneration

Friars venerate the Veneration Crucifix in pairs, making three Genuflection#Solemn Genuflection along the way. All Servers other than Candle bearers standby, seated in the Choir Stalls.

• First pair¹ of friars start in Sanctuary close to the people, and Genuflection#Solemn Genuflection together, facing the Veneration Crucifix.
• First pair moves to middle of Sanctuary, second pair fills in their place. All pairs of friars time their genuflection and movement together.
• First moves to the Veneration Crucifix, second pair fills in first pair's place, third pair fills in second pair's place. All three pairs make Genuflection#Solemn Genuflection together, the first pair kissing the Veneration Crucifix.
• First pair turns outward and files back to the Choir Stalls, fourth pair moves in.

Peoples' Veneration

Begins after the last friar has venerated the Veneration Crucifix.

• Candle bearers flank Veneration Crucifix with Processional Candles as Priest processes with it, down to the foot of the Sanctuary.
• Candle bearers place the Processional Candles to either side of the Veneration Crucifix, on the Sanctuary step the crucifix is resting on. Leave plenty of space for a person to stand on either side.
• Acolytes 1 and 2 follow closely behind with purificators, handing them to the Priest and Deacon.
• MC follows closely behind and stands in the main aisle, preventing the people from venerating.
• Candle bearers venerate in a pair simultaneously, followed by the Acolytes, who do the same. This is to demonstrate to the people how to do it.
• All Servers direct traffic:
  • Candle bearers stand on either side of the front of the main aisle, directing the pairs in front of the two lines to venerate simultaneously.
  • Acolytes direct the people on the sides of the church. The people in the Rosary Altar pews, Friars' Chapel pews, and North-facing pews go first. Then the people in the side pews go by way of the center pews.
  • Master of Ceremonies prevents the people in the main pews from venerating until the people in the Rosary Altar pews, Friars' Chapel pews, and North-facing pews go. Then he directs traffic, ushering the people out of the pews.
• Master of Ceremonies venerates the Veneration Crucifix when the last of the people have venerated.
• An Acolyte retrieves the bracket and sets it on the center tile in front of the Crossing Altar. The Priest places the Veneration Crucifix in it, and the Candle bearers set the Processional Candles on either side of it. They remain there for the rest of the day.
• All return to Choir Stalls#Low and don shoes.

Communion

• A Candle bearer lights the Processional Candles in the niche, getting fire from the red sconce at the Rosary Altar, Genuflecting when approaching to get fire. Then he returns to the Choir Stall.
• Acolytes 1 and 2 start setting the Crossing Altar:
  • Spread the altar cloth.
  • Place the Missal, with Missal Stand on the Altar.
  • Place the [[Hockey Puck Mic]] just in front of the Missal Stand and unmute it.
  • Bring the Burse and spread the Corporals on the Altar. Return the Burse to the Credence Table.
  • Return to Choir Stalls.
• When the Deacon is ready:
  • Master of Ceremonies and Candle bearers precede Deacon to the Altar of Repose (Rosary Altar). Candle bearers take up the lit Processional Candles from the niche along the way, MC takes up the Humeral Veil.
  • Form up and Genuflect with the Deacon.
  • Master of Ceremonies assists Deacon with the Humeral Veil, then Genuflects and returns to the Sanctuary.
  • When the Deacon has the Eucharist and turns, Candle bearers precede him to the Crossing Altar:
    • Upon approaching the Crossing Altar, stand on either side of it and face inward.
    • When the Eucharist is placed on the Corporal, place candles on the Crossing Altar, move to the front of the Crossing Altar approaching from either side, Genuflect together, and return to Choir Stalls#Low.
  • MC extinguishes the Rosary Altar sanctuary lamp, and assists Deacon and other Priests with Humeral Veil as needed.
  • Meanwhile, Priests retrieve more Eucharist from the Sacristy.
• All return to Choir Stalls#Low.
• After the Priest receives communion, receive communion in two lines, letting the friars receive first. No bell is run nor Crotalus clapped.
• After communion, a Minister takes the Eucharist to the back of the Tabernacle in the Sacristy.
• At that point:
  • Acolytes take the Burse to the Crossing Altar, fold up and put away the Corporal, and then put them back on the Credence Table.
  • An Acolyte mutes the [[Hockey Puck Mic]] and returns it to the Credence Table.
  • Book Bearer takes the Missal and Stand back to the Choir Stalls.
  • The altar cloth and candles are left on the Altar.

Prayer after Communion and Prayer over the People

Book Bearer bears Missal.

Recession

• Candle bearers, empty-handed, form up at the foot of the Crossing Altar with Ministers. All four Genuflect to the Veneration Crucifix, and then Candle bearers precede them to the Sacristy by way of the Lourde's Door.
• All other Servers remain in Choir Stalls. After a brief period of prayer, they begin the #Cleanup.

Cleanup

• Veneration Crucifix in bracket and two lit Processional Candles remain.
• Two Processional Candles from the Crossing Altar move by the Veneration Crucifix, so as to make a "V".
• Altar cloth rolled up (not folded) and brought back to Sacristy.

References

• S.T. III. q. 83. a. 2 ad 2.

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1. TODO My notes from 2023 say this is done is pairs, but in 2024 they did it single file. ↩