- Prayers for the Seasons of the Church Year
- Stir-up Sunday
- Advent
- Christmas
- New Year
- Epiphany
- Mothering Sunday
- Shrove Tuesday
- Ash Wednesday and Lent
- Palm Sunday
- Maundy Thursday
- Good Friday
- Easter - The Resurrection
- Ascension
- Pentecost
- Harvest
- Saints' Days
Good Friday
O Lord Jesus, forgive me for the times I have racked you on the cross of God's purpose and my rebellion. Let me gaze at that cross and recognise what my wilfulness has done. So join my grief with your passion, Lord; that with your whole creation I may be redeemed.
Ruth Etchells, Prayers Encircling the World
Lord of our stricken world, there is nothing we can do to redeem our blindness in sending you to your death. You only can redeem.
But keep us in touch with the pain of the world, where you are still hung out to die, and there may we ease you from your cross, tend your wounds, and offer you the friendship we failed to give on a green hill far away. This we ask in sadness and hope, for your sake and for ours, Amen.
John Pritchard, The Second Intercessions Handbook
To your cross, O Lord, we come for healing,
For you alone can make us whole.
We come with the broken-hearted and broken-spirited,
For you alone can make us whole.
We come with those with broken relationships,
For you alone can make us whole.
We come with the broken in body or in mind,
For you alone can make us whole.
We come with the weak and the handicapped,
For you alone can make us whole.
We come with the sinners and the guilty,
For you alone can make us whole.
David Adam, The Rhythm of Life
God of all goodness,
By the hell and victory of the cross
Embolden us to come to you
With our loud cries and tears,
To receive mercy and help
In time of need.
Joy Tetley, Prayers Encircling the World
O Lord, our Saviour and our God, whom nails could not hold to the cross, but only love; grant that we, who have received the fullness of your love, may be ready to bear before the world the marks of your passion.
Eric Milner-White, A Procession of Passion Prayers (1910)
Upon all who have been forsaken,
Lord, come in your mercy.
Upon all who have been betrayed by a kiss,
Lord, come in your mercy.
Upon all who have are deserted by friends,
Lord, come in your mercy.
Upon all misunderstood by loved ones,
Lord, come in your mercy.
Upon all who are in physical pain,
Lord, come in your mercy.
Upon all suffering mental anguish,
Lord, come in your mercy.
Upon all at the point of death,
Lord, come in your mercy.
David Adam, The Rhythm of Life
