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WEDNESDAY IN HOLY WEEK

open His mouth. He was taken away from distress and from judgment. Who shall declare His
generation? Because He is cut off out of the land of the living : for the wickedness of my people
have I struck Him. And He shall give the ungodly for His burial and the rich for His death :
because He hath done no iniquity, neither was there deceit in His mouth. And the Lord was pleased
to bruise Him in infirmity. If He shall lay down his life for sin, He shall see a long-lived seed
: and the will of the Lord shall be prosperous in His hand. Because His soul hath labored, He shall
see and be filled. By His knowledge shall this, my just servant, justify many: and He shall bear
their iniquities. Therefore will I distribute to Him very many, and He shall divide the spoils of
the strong: because He hath delivered His soul unto death and was reputed with the wicked. And
He hath borne the sins of many and hath prayed for the transgressors.

Tract. Ps. 101, 2-5, 14. Hear, O Lord, my prayer: and let my cry come to Thee. V. Turn not away Thy
face from me : in the day when I am in trouble, incline Thy ear to me. In what day soever I shall
call upon Thee, hear me speedily. V. For my days are vanished like smoke : and my bones are grown
dry like fuel for the fire. V. I am smitten as grass, and my heart is withered : because I
forgot to eat my bread. V. Thou shalt arise and have mercy on Sion : for it is time to have mercy
on it, for the time is come.

THE PASSION OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST
(Luke 22, 39-71; 23, 1-53)

THE AGONY IN THE GARDEN

AT THAT TIME, Jesus went, according to His
custom, to the mount of Olives. And His disciples also followed Him. And when He was come to the
place,