Heb. x. 5-10. Good Friday, morning (Prayer Book)
A Psalm of Christ's Incarnation, Passion, Sin-bearing, and Resurrection; it expresses the secret of His Atonement (see above, pp. 61, 62) and His fulfilment of O.T. prophecy (ver. 10).
PSALM xli. Beatus qui intelligit
John xiii. 18
A Psalm of Christ's compassion; and of the treachery of His enemies, especially of Judas.
PSALM xlii. Quemadmodum
[Introit for Burial of the Dead, Prayer Book of 1549]
A Psalm of Christ's human soul in His earthly pilgrimage, and in the prospect of death; His desire to return to the Father. Hence also suitable for the Christian soul in sickness and dying.
PSALM xliii. Judica me, Deus
A continuation of the previous Psalm. Christ speaks in it to the Father as He approaches His Passion, and contemplates with joy the sacrifice He is about to offer for man. Hence this Psalm has long been used in the Church as the immediate preparation of the Priest for offering the Holy Eucharist.