“(94-1) Come let us praise the Lord with joy: let us joyfully sing to God our saviour. (94-2) Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving; and make a joyful noise to him with psalms. (94-3) For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods. (94-4) For in his hand are all the ends of the earth: and the heights of the mountains are his. (94-5) For the sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land. (94-6) Come let us adore and fall down: and weep before the Lord that made us. (94-7) For he is the Lord our God: and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. (94-8) To day if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts: (94-9) As in the provocation, according to the day of temptation in the wilderness: where your fathers tempted me, they proved me, and saw my works. (94-10) Forty years long was I offended with that generation, and I said: These always err in heart. (94-11) And these men have not known my ways: so I swore in my wrath that they shall not enter into my rest.” (Ps 95:1-11 Douay)
Dom Gueranger’s reflection on hardness of heart:
“The sweet voice of your suffering Jesus now speaks to you, poor sinners! be not your own enemies by indifference and hardness of heart. The Son of God is about to give you the last and greatest proof of the love that brought Him down from heaven; His death is nigh at hand: men are preparing the wood for the immolation of the new Isaac: enter into yourselves, and let not your hearts, after being touched with grace, return to their former obduracy; for nothing could be more dangerous. The great anniversaries we are to celebrate have a renovating power for those souls that faithfully correspond with the grace which is offered them; but they increase insensibility in those who let them pass without working their conversion. Today, therefore, it you hear the voice of the Lord, harden not your hearts!”
Lamp of the Cross:
“Thou, [O Christ], by the human nature thou hast assumed, art the lamp set on the stand of the cross: we beseech thee, therefore, that thou enkindle us by thy flame, lest we become a prey to punishment. Behold us now entering, with devout hearts, upon the feast of thy Passion; oh! grant that we may partake of the merits of thy Passion: that thus, being delivered from the error of our darkness, we may be fortified by the help of thy light.” (Mozarabic Breviary)