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Reverend Father would return on Easter Tuesday, and their Easter duties
would be accomplished within the Octave. Withal, it was a gloomy Easter
for the brethren, and when they began the first Vespers with the
quadruple Alleluia, it seemed as if they were still chanting the
sorrowful antiphons of Good Friday.
_My spirit is vexed within Me: and My heart within Me is desolate._
_Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by: behold and see if there
be any sorrow like unto My sorrow, which is done unto Me._
_What are these wounds in Thy Hands: Those with which I was wounded
in the house of My friends._
Nor was there rejoicing in the Community when at Lauds of Easter Day
they chanted:
_V. In Thy Resurrection, O Christ._
_R. Let Heaven and earth rejoice, Alleluia._
Nor when at Prime and Terce and Sext and None they chanted:
_This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be
glad in it._
And when at the second Vespers the Brethren declared:
_V. Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us, therefore let us keep
the Feast._
_R. Not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and
wickedness; but with the unleavened Bread of sincerity and
truth.
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