DIVINUM OFFICIUM Responsory

Responsorium IV - Nocturn II

Passion Sunday, Nocturn II, Responsory 1

This fourth responsory for Passion Sunday draws from Lamentations 3:9-11: 'He hath shut up my ways; he hath become to me as a lion in ambush.' The Book of Lamentations, read in Matins during Passiontide, traditionally voices Christ's sufferings through Jeremiah's lamentation over Jerusalem. The imagery of being trapped and ambushed expresses the Passion's approaching inevitability.

LATINE
R. Conclusit vias meas inimicus: * Insidiator factus est mihi sicut leo in abscondito.
V. Replevit me amaritudinibus: inebriavit me absinthio.
R. Insidiator factus est mihi sicut leo in abscondito.
ENGLISH
R. Conclusit vias meas inimicus: * Insidiator factus est mihi sicut leo in abscondito.
V. Replevit me amaritudinibus: inebriavit me absinthio.
R. Insidiator factus est mihi sicut leo in abscondito.
NOTA
FONS
Breviarium Romanum (1962)
USUS
Passion Sunday, Nocturn II, Responsory 1
HORA
Matins
TEMPVS
passiontide
GENVS
Responsory