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LAUDES-OFICIO-EVANGELIO. MARTES SANTO

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Join the Laudes prayer for Holy Tuesday, March 31, 2026, as the community begins with the sign of the cross and an invocation.

1. LITUR-PRO presents the Lauds — morning prayer — of the Catholic Liturgy of the Hours for Martes Santo, Holy Tuesday, March 31, 2026, second week of the psalter. 2. The host opens with 'Buenos días, hermanos y hermanas La Paz,' and guides listeners through the Sign of the Cross and the opening versicle: 'Señor, abre mis labios y mi boca proclamará tu alabanza.' 3. The episode's purpose is to accompany Catholic faithful through the full Lauds rite for Holy Tuesday, providing an audio structure for those praying the official breviary. 4. The invitatory antiphon is 'A Cristo el Señor que por nosotros fue tentado y por nosotros murió, venid, adorémosle,' setting the Holy Week frame of Christ's passion as the lens for all that follows. 5. Psalm 95 (the traditional invitatory psalm) is prayed, including its warning not to harden hearts 'como en Meribah, como el día de Masá en el desierto,' and God's oath that the disobedient generation would not enter his rest. 6. The morning hymn 'Ojos muertos que miráis con mirar indescriptible' addresses the eyes of the crucified Christ, asking how eyes that are dead can carry such living, piercing expression that splits the heart like two pointed swords. 7. Psalm 43 is prayed with its antiphon 'Defiende mi causa, Señor, sálvame del hombre traidor y malvado,' with the psalmist asking God why he feels rejected and walking in darkness under the oppression of an enemy. 8. Psalm 65 follows, praising God who cares for the earth, fills its streams, waters the furrows, and crowns the year with his gifts, with valleys dressed in grain that 'acclaim and sing.' 9. The canticle from Hezekiah in Isaiah 38 is sung: the king meditates on his illness and nearness to the grave — 'Ya no veré más al Señor en la tierra de los vivos' — and then gives thanks because God saved him from the pit, turning his bitterness to peace. 10. The short reading from Zechariah 12 prophesies that God will pour on Jerusalem 'a spirit of grace and prayer' and that the inhabitants will mourn the one they pierced 'as one mourns for an only son.' 11. The responsory drawn from Isaiah 53 is 'Mi siervo justificará a muchos, porque cargó sobre sí los crímenes de ellos,' applied liturgically to Christ on Holy Tuesday. 12. An excerpt from the book of Jeremiah 8-9 is read as the Office of Readings scriptural text: the prophet laments Israel's corruption, describes enemies advancing, and cries 'Is there no balm in Gilead? Are there no doctors there? Why then are the wounds of my people not healed?' 13. St. Basil the Great's 'On the Holy Spirit' explains that Christ's incarnation, suffering, death, and resurrection were all ordered to restoring humanity to adoptive sonship, and that the imitation of Christ must extend to his death as well as his virtues. 14. Basil uses the analogy of a runner who must pause at the turning point before resuming: similarly, a change of life requires death to intervene between the old life and the new, which is what baptism symbolically enacts. 15. The Gospel reading is John 13:21-38, in which Jesus, deeply troubled at the Last Supper, announces that one of the twelve will betray him; he identifies Judas to the Beloved Disciple by giving him a dipped morsel of bread. 16. After the morsel, the narrator states 'tras el bocado, entró en él Satanás,' and Jesus tells Judas: 'Lo que tengas que hacer, hazlo pronto'; Judas goes out into the night. 17. The Gospel continues with Jesus telling Peter he will deny him three times before the cock crows, despite Peter's insistence that he will give his life for him. 18. The Benedictus canticle is sung with the Holy Week antiphon 'Glorifícame tú, Padre, con la gloria que tenía junto a ti antes que el mundo existiese,' a reference to John 17. 19. This episode is intended for Spanish-speaking Catholics who pray the full Divine Office daily and want an audio guide for Holy Tuesday Lauds. 20. Those seeking homilies, personal reflection, theological commentary, or non-liturgical content will find nothing of that kind here.

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