This text is taken from The Liturgical Year, authored by Dom Prosper Gueranger (1841-1875) The Office of Matins and Lauds, for the last three days of Holy Week, differs, in many things, from that of the rest of the year, all is sad and mournful, as though it were a funeral-service: nothing could more emphatically express the grief that now weighs down the heart of our holy mother the…
