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Good Friday
Feria Sexta in Passione et Morte Domini
The organ is silent from the Gloria of the Mass of Holy Thursday until the Gloria of the Easter Vigil. Nova Organi Harmonia has no accompaniment for Good Friday (Book I goes from Maundy Thursday, p. 344, to Holy Saturday, p. 345), so this page gives the chants alone, to be sung unaccompanied.
1962 Missal
The Good Friday liturgy restored in 1955 (Ordo Hebdomadae Sanctae instauratus) · Graduale Romanum (1961) and Liber Usualis (1961)
The Lessons
Tract after the first lesson (Osee 6)
GregoBase 602 (opens in new tab)Graduale Romanum 1961, p. 219; Liber Usualis, p. 721
Tract after the second lesson (Exodus 12)
GregoBase 22 (opens in new tab)Graduale Romanum 1961, p. 221; Liber Usualis, p. 725
The Passion according to St John and the Solemn Intercessions follow, sung to their own tones.
The Adoration of the Cross
Showing of the Cross
GregoBase 2087 (opens in new tab)Liber Usualis, p. 735
The Reproaches: Popule meus
GregoBase 157 (opens in new tab)Graduale Romanum 1961, p. 225; Liber Usualis, p. 737
Trisagion: Hagios o Theos
GregoBase 4311 (opens in new tab)Graduale Romanum 1961, p. 226; Liber Usualis, p. 737
GregoBase transcribes only the first invocation. The alternation with Sanctus Deus and the remaining invocations are in the Liber Usualis, pp. 737–738.
The Reproaches: Quia eduxi te per desertum
GregoBase 7808 (opens in new tab)Graduale Romanum 1961, p. 227; Liber Usualis, p. 738
The Reproaches: Quid ultra debui
GregoBase 7809 (opens in new tab)Graduale Romanum 1961, p. 227; Liber Usualis, p. 738
The lesser Reproaches: Ego propter te
GregoBase 8749 (opens in new tab)Graduale Romanum 1961, p. 228; Liber Usualis, p. 739
The lesser Reproaches: Ego te pavi
GregoBase 4309 (opens in new tab)Liber Usualis, p. 740
The lesser Reproaches: Ego dedi tibi
GregoBase 4310 (opens in new tab)Liber Usualis, p. 741
GregoBase has three of the nine lesser Reproaches; the others are in the Liber Usualis, pp. 739–741. Each is answered by Popule meus.
Antiphon Crucem tuam, with Psalm 66
GregoBase 428 (opens in new tab)Graduale Romanum 1961, p. 231; Liber Usualis, p. 741
Hymn: Crux fidelis (refrain)
GregoBase 1128 (opens in new tab)Graduale Romanum 1961, p. 232; Liber Usualis, p. 742
Hymn: Pange lingua … lauream certaminis (first verse)
GregoBase 638 (opens in new tab)Graduale Romanum 1961, p. 232; Liber Usualis, p. 742
Holy Communion
As the Blessed Sacrament is brought from the Altar of Repose: Adoramus te, Christe
GregoBase 1238 (opens in new tab)Graduale Romanum 1961, p. 239A; Liber Usualis, p. 746
Per lignum servi facti sumus
GregoBase 940 (opens in new tab)Graduale Romanum 1961, p. 239A; Liber Usualis, p. 746
Salvator mundi, salva nos
GregoBase 1335 (opens in new tab)Graduale Romanum 1961, p. 239A; Liber Usualis, p. 747
During Communion: Psalm 21, Deus, Deus meus
GregoBase 447 (opens in new tab)Graduale Romanum 1961, p. 239B; Liber Usualis, p. 749
Ordinary Form
The Celebration of the Passion of the Lord · Graduale Romanum (1974)
The Liturgy of the Word
Graduale Romanum 1974 assignment; transcribed from Graduale Romanum 1961, p. 191
Gradual (before the Passion)
GregoBase 873 (opens in new tab)Graduale Romanum 1974 assignment; transcribed from Graduale Romanum 1961, p. 202
These are the two assignments the site's Ordinary Form propers record for Good Friday. The Passion according to St John and the Solemn Intercessions follow.
The Adoration of the Cross
Showing of the Cross
GregoBase 4612 (opens in new tab)Graduale Romanum 1974, p. 174
Antiphon Crucem tuam, with Psalm 66
GregoBase 17786 (opens in new tab)Graduale Romanum 1974, p. 175
The Reproaches: Popule meus
GregoBase 157 (opens in new tab)transcribed from Graduale Romanum 1961, p. 225
Trisagion: Hagios o Theos
GregoBase 4311 (opens in new tab)transcribed from Graduale Romanum 1961, p. 226
GregoBase transcribes only the first invocation.
The Reproaches: Quia eduxi te per desertum
GregoBase 7808 (opens in new tab)transcribed from Graduale Romanum 1961, p. 227
The Reproaches: Quid ultra debui
GregoBase 7809 (opens in new tab)transcribed from Graduale Romanum 1961, p. 227
Hymn: Crux fidelis (refrain)
GregoBase 1128 (opens in new tab)transcribed from Graduale Romanum 1961, p. 232
Hymn: Pange lingua … praelium certaminis (first verse)
GregoBase 17928 (opens in new tab)Graduale Romanum 1974, p. 182
GregoBase has no transcription of the Reproaches or Crux fidelis taken from the 1974 Graduale; the 1961 transcriptions are shown here. Compare them with the 1974 book before singing from them.
Chant notation from GregoBase (CC0), drawn with Exsurge.