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CHAPTER XXX
Monday and Tuesday
in Passion Week.
MONDAY. Station at the Church of Saint Chrysogonus.
Sources of the liturgy: Introit, Ps. LV, 2-3. Epistle, Jonas, m
1-10. Gradual, Ps. LIII, 4 and 3. Tract, as on the other
Ferias in Lent. Gospel, St.John, vn, 33-39. Offertory, Ps.vi,
5. Communion, Ps. xxm, 10.
TUESDAY. Station at the Church of Saint Cyriacus. Sources
of the liturgy : Introit, Ps. xxvi, 14 and 1. Epistle, Daniel,
xiv, 27-42. Gradual, Ps. XLII, 1 and 3. Gospel, St. John, vn,
1-13. Offertory, Ps. ix, 11-13. Communion, Ps. xxiv, 22.
The STATION is in the church of Saint Chrysogonus,
situated in the region beyond the Tiber. This church
was already in existence as titulus before the fifth century;
in it is venerated the head of the glorious martyr whose
name is inscribed in the Canon of the Mass.
The Lessons in the Mass of this day urgently solicit,
and as it were, make an urgent and final appeal to sinners.
They are specially addressed to those upon whom the
exhortations given in the first weeks of Lent have had
no effect. The Prophet Jonas, from whose writings
the Epistle is taken, himself relates how, at God s com
mand, he preached penance to the inhabitants of Ninive.
The Lord had pity on this people because they heard
Our
the voice of His envoy and obeyed it with docility.
Lord Himself tells us that on the last day the Ninivites
will be a witness against the Jews who remained
deaf to the voice of the Messias.