Upon reaching the foot of the Altar, the celebrant and server genuflect, make the sign of the Cross, and recite alternately verses of Psalm 42.
In nomine Patris, ✠ et Filii, et Spiritus Sanctus. Amen.
In the name of the Father, ✠ and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Antiphon
v. Introibo ad altare Dei.
r. Ad deum qui laetificat juventutem meam.
v. I will go unto the altar of God.
r. Unto God who gives joy to my youth.
Psalm 42
v. Judica me. Deus, et discerne causam meam de gente non sancta: ab homine iniquo et doloso erue me.
r. Quia tu es, Deus, fortitudo mea: quare me repulisti et quare tristis incedo, dum affligit me inimicus?
v. Emitte lucem tuam, et veritatem tuam: ipsa me deduxerunt, et aduxerunt in montem sanctum tuam, et in tabernacula tua.
r. Et introibo ad altare dei: ad Deum qui laetificat juventutem meam.
v. Confitebor tibi in cithara, Deus, Deus meus: quare tristis es, anima mea, et quare conturbas me?
r. Spera in Deo, quoniam adhuc confitebor illi: salutare vultus mei, et Deus meus.
v. Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto.
r. Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper, et in saecula saeculorum. Amen.
v. Judge me, O God, and distinguish my cause against an ungodly nation: deliver me from the unjust and deceitful man.
r. For you, O God, are my strength: why have you cast me from you, and why do I go sorrowful while the enemy afflicts me?
v. O send out your light and your truth: they have led me and brought me to your holy hill, even to your tabernacles.
r. Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God, who gives joy to my youth.
v. I will praise you upon the harp, O God, my God. why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you disquieted within me?
r. Hope in God: for yet will I praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
v. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
r. As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Antiphon
v. Introibo ad altare Dei.
r. Ad deum qui laetificat juventutem meam.
v. I will go unto the altar of God.
r. Unto God who gives joy to my youth.