He Is Risen!

He Is Risen Indeed!

Easter Day Prayer

ALMIGHTY God, You Who through Your only-begotten Son Jesus Christ have overcome death, and opened to us the gate of everlasting life; we humbly pray that, through Your grace going before us, good desires will enter into our minds, and, by Your continual help, we shall be enabled to bring them to their fulfillment; through Jesus Christ our Lord, Who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, One God, now and for ever. Amen.

Prayer for Holy Saturday

GRANT, O Lord, that we who have been baptized into the death of Your blessed Son, our Savior Jesus Christ, may continually put to death our evil desires and be buried with Him; so that we may pass through the grave, the gate of death, to our joyful resurrection through His merits Who died, was buried, and rose again for us, Your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Good Friday...

He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree,

that we might die to sin and live to righteousness.

By His wounds you have been healed.

1 Peter 2:24

Good Friday Prayer

MERCIFUL God, You Who have made all peoples, and neither hate nothing that You have made nor desire the death of sinners, but rather desire that they should be converted and live; have mercy upon all who do not know You as You are revealed in the Gospel of Your Son. Take from them all ignorance, hardness of heart, and contempt for Your Word and bring them home to Your fold, blessed Lord, so that they may all become one flock under one shepherd, Jesus Christ our Lord, Who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and ever. Amen.

The Last Supper

As they were reclining at table and eating, Jesus said,

"Truly, I say to you, one of you will betray Me, one who is eating with Me."

Mark 14:18

So after receiving the morsel of bread, he immediately went out.

And it was night.

John 13:30

And as they were eating, He took bread,

and after blessing it broke it and gave it to them and said,

"Take, this is My body."

And He took a cup,

and when He had given thanks He gave it to them,

and they all drank of it.

And He said to them,

"This is my blood of the covenant,

which is poured out for many.

Truly, I say to you,

I will not drink again of the fruit of the vine

until that day when I drink it new

in the kingdom of God.

Mark 14:22-25

Prayer for Maundy Thursday

ALMIGHTY Father, Whose dear Son, on the night before He suffered, instituted the Sacrament of His body and blood; grant that we may thankfully receive the same in remembrance of Him, Who in these holy mysteries gives us a pledge of eternal life; even Your Son Jesus Christ our Lord, Who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.