A Collection of Prayers for the Three Holy Days

to the Lord who sanctifies

Dear Friends and Saints,

Today we celebrate the 1,991st anniversary of the institution of the Lord’s Supper.

I’ve mentioned this website before, but if you haven’t bookmarked acollectionofprayers.com/, you should. Pastor Stratman has assembled a marvelous collection of ancient Christian prayers. Here are his offerings for Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday.

Holy Triduum prayers

Holy (Maundy) Thursday

• About the Eucharist, from the Didache

• Prayer for Love (Anselm)

• Prayer for Love (Cyril)

• The Glory of Servanthood (Suter)

• A Communion Prayer (Veit Dietrich)

• Prayer for Cleansing (Origen)

• Contemporary Closing Prayer for Holy Thursday (Stratman)

Good Friday

• Good Friday Kyrie

• Historic Collect (Coburg Agenda)

• Mozarabic Collect

• May We Never Be Forsaken (Mozarabic)

• The Passion (Mozarabic)

• Remember the Value of Your Precious Blood (Mozarabic)

• Today, Good Jesus… (Mozarabic)

• The Bidding Prayer

• Gelasian Collect

• Not with Gold or Silver (Gallican)

• You Shed Your Precious Blood (Sarum)

• So Loving, Yet Hated (Mozarabic)

• For Our Redemption (Sarum)

• You Stretched Out Your Hands (Ambrosian)

• Single, Unequaled Mystery (Gallican)

• Give Us Patience (Pomeranian)

• It Is Finished (Sarum)

• Prayers on the Seven Words (Mynsinger)

• Scriptural Way of the Cross (Prayers by Stratman)

• Good Friday Litany (Mozarabic)

• Good Friday Response

• Good Friday Response (2)

• Good Friday Responsory: O vos omnes

Good Friday Anthems

• The Reproaches

• Good Friday Anthem 1 (U. S. Book of Common Prayer 1979)

• Good Friday Anthem 2 (U. S. Book of Common Prayer 1979)

• Good Friday Anthem 3 (U. S. Book of Common Prayer 1979)

Holy Saturday / Easter Eve

• This Is the Night (Easter Eve Eucharistic Prayer)

• Mozarabic Collect

• You Were Buried So that You Would Rise (Mozarabic)

• All Things Restored through Christ (Gelasian)

• Abide with Us (Dieffenbach)

(Click here for the Resurrection Collection of Prayers)

God grant us His Spirit as we meditate on His mysteries these days.

Lord’s Blessings,
PrBW

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