A Good Friday Prayer

A Litany for Good Friday

Jesus Christ, Savior of our world,
Redeemer of all creation,
The bringer of health and wholeness,
We bless and praise your name.
You died for us and hung upon a cross,
Your blood was shed and your body broken,
So that we might be set free,
We bless and praise your name.

Have mercy on us,
Son of the living God,
Healer of lepers, feeder of the hungry,
Releaser of the oppressed, bringer of wholeness,
Christ crucified, Eternal God
Have mercy on us.

Help us to lay down our own lives daily,
And consciously take on Christ’s life,
May we consider the needs of others as more important than our own,
Teach us, Lord, to live the life of the cross.
Enable us to live a life of service and not of selfish ambition,
Empower us to reach out with compassion and care,
May we identify with the poor, the marginalized, and the vulnerable,
Teach us, Lord, to live the life of the cross.
Encourage us to extend ourselves in serving and loving,
Being willing to walk the extra mile,
May we reach out to all those who suffer and are in pain.
Teach us, Lord, to live the life of the cross.
Forgive us for when we discard Christ’s life,
And so quickly reach for our own ways again,
For it is in dying to ourselves that we find life and enter the ways of your kingdom.
Teach us, Lord, to live the life of the cross.

Excerpt from “Litany for Good Friday”
Taken from A Journey Into Wholeness (Lenten Guide 2009)
By Christine Sine
http://msainfo.org/articles/a-journey-into-wholeness-lenten-reflection-guide

Prayer for Palm Sunday

Assist me mercifully with your help, O Lord God of our salvation, that I may enter with joy upon the contemplation of those mighty acts, whereby you have given us life and immortality; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

From The Divine Hours by Phyllis Tickle. For Divine Hour liturgies this Holy Week, click here.

I am also following the Passion Week via Twitter. While I usually avoid Twitter because it it just too much real time information, this week I will follow the events of Jesus' final week via the @passionweek account created by John Chandler. The Twitter account will give brief real time glimpes of what Jesus experienced at the estimated time he would of experienced it. You can read more about it by clicking here.

You can check out the Passion Week Twitter here @passionweek.