O God, who willed that in the passion of your Son a sword of grief should pierce the soul of the…
Almighty God, whose most dear Son went not up to joy but first he suffered pain, and entered not into glory…
Almighty God, whose beloved Son willingly endured the agony and shame of the cross for our redemption: Give us…
O God, you know us to be set in the midst of so many and great dangers, that by reason of the frailty of our…
Teach your Church, O Lord, to mourn the sins of which it is guilty, and to repent and forsake them…
Lord Jesus Christ, by your death you took away the sting of death…
Lord Jesus Christ, you stretched out your arms of love on the hard wood of the cross that everyone might come…
Almighty and everliving God, in your tender love for the human race you sent your Son our Savior Jesus Christ to…
O God, who before the passion of your only-begotten Son revealed his glory upon the holy mountain: Grant…
Lord God, whose blessed Son our Savior gave his body to be whipped and his face to be spit upon: Give us grace to accept joyfully the sufferings of the present time, confident of the glory that shall be revealed; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
O God, by the passion of your blessed Son you made an instrument of shameful death to be for us the means of…
Heavenly Father, whose blessed Son came not to be served but to serve: Bless all who, following…
O God, who for our redemption gave your only-begotten Son to the death of the cross, and by his glorious resurrection…
