Transitus Vigil
Transitus Vigil
Transitus Vigil
Francis
HOW STEADFAST IS HIS MIND,
HIS ARDENT LOVE THE WORLD WILL SPAN
HIS HEART GOD’S LOVE WILL FIND.
FINAL HYMN
All: Amen.
Ant. 1: He was found perfect and virtuous and through him a remnant Ant. 2: The praises of God are always on his lips; he invites stars, breezes,
birds and all other creatures to praise the Creator. Assisi as the leader of Earthly festivities, literally died singing
with spiritual joy for his release from all beauty and all the
sorrow of life here on earth.
The Paschal Candle is now lit.
The Guardian passes on the light of Christ to the Fraternity and the
Cantico della creaturarum ( canticle of creation) is played
All pause now for a few minutes of silent prayer.
Psalm 68 (69) 111
Responsory:
As for me in my poverty and pain Leader: My heart and my soul ring out their joy to God, the living God.
Let your help, O God, lift me up.
All: My soul is longing and yearning, is yearning for the courts of the
Lord.
I will praise God’s name with a song
I will glorify Him with thanksgiving
A gift pleasing God more than oxen, Magnificat Sung
More than beast prepared for sacrifice. Antiphon: He rejoiced to share in the sufferings of Christ,
and now he exults with joy in the glory revealed to him.
The poor when they see it will be glad
And God seeking hearts will revive My soul now glorify
For the Lord listens to the needy, the Lord who is my Saviour
And does not spurn his servants in their chains
Let the heavens and the earth give Him praise R/ Rejoice for who am I
The sea and all it’s living creatures. that God has shown me favour.
For God will bring help from Sion The world shall call me blest
And rebuild the cities of Judah and ponder on my story.
And men shall dwell there in possession
The sons of his servants shall inherit it R/ In me is manifest
Those who love his name shall dwell there. God's greatness and his glory.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son, and to the Holy For those who are his friends,
Spirit, and keep his laws as holy.
as it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be,
R/ His mercy never ends
world without end. Amen. and he exalts the lowly.
Pause for quiet prayer & reflection on Psalm. But by his power the great,
the proud, the self conceited.
Lector: Narrator: Meanwhile Francis’ guardian hurriedly arose and taking a habit said
to him:
A reading from the Gospel according to John 13:1-15
Brother: Francis, realise that this habit has been lent to you by me. I take
“Now before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart away from you all authority to give it away to anyone else.
from this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he
loved them to the end. The devil had already put it into the heart of Judas, son of Simon Commentator: Then Francis rejoiced for he saw that he had kept faith with Lady
Poverty to the very end of his life.
Iscariot, to betray him. And during supper Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all
Happy in the thought of this last acceptance of the spirit of
things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going to God, got up from
poverty, Francis smiled and allowed himself to be
the table, took off his outer robe, and tied a towel around himself. Then he poured water
into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel that re-clothed with the habit.
was tied around him. He came to Simon Peter who said to him: “Lord, are you going to
Narrator: By now his end was only a few hours away. At this supreme mo-
ment, Francis in the most solemn way possible, remembered the
ties of friendship and loyalty which bound the brothers
together, and with that faith and simplicity which always
encouraged him to imitate the example of Christ in the most
literal of ways, he asked that bread be brought to him. Too weak to
break it himself, he asked that it should be broken for him and then
gave a piece to each of those present.