Collect for Good Friday
Almighty God , we beseech thee graciously to behold this thy family , for which our Lord Jesus Christ was contented to be betrayed , and given up into the hands of wicked men , and to suffer death upon the cross,. who now liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost , ever one world without end, 
Amen. 
Almighty God, whose blessed son by his one perfect and sufficient sacrifice has opened for us a new and living way to thy presence: 
grant that drawing near to thee with a full heart in full assurance of faith, we may find cleansing and quiet conscience; and give us grace , we pray three , evermore to hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering , and to serve one another in love and good works; through the merits of the same Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
O Holy and adorable Redeemer, by whose condemnation we are acquitted, by whose stripes we are healed, by whose death we have life, by whose cross we gain our crown: 
Keep us we beseech three ever mindful of thy boundless love;
And when thou doest call upon us to bear for a while thy cross, like Simon of old, make us to rejoice that we are counted
Worthy to suffer for thy sake, 
and accept our feeble sacrifice, through the merits of thine eternal redemption.
Amen 
O Christ, who by the thorns pressed upon thy head hast drawn the thorns from the sorrows of the world, and given us a crown of joy and peace: make us so bold as never to fear suffering, nor to suffer without cheerfulness in thy service; to the glory of thy holy name.  Amen
A Prayer by St. Teresa of Avila
Christ has no body now on earth but yours,
No hands but yours,
No feet but yours.
Yours are the eyes through which is to look out
Christ’s compassion to the world;
Yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good;
Yours are the hands with which he is to bless men now.
Amen 
