Worship Created for Holy Week
Opening Sentence
Leader: I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son." Luke 15:18, 19
After a period of silence…
Leader: Show us your mercy, O Lord;
People: And grant us your salvation.
Leader: Clothe your ministers with righteousness;
People: Let your people sing with joy.
Leader: Give peace, O Lord, in all the world;
People: For only in you can we live in safety.
Leader: Lord, keep this nation under your care;
People: And guide us in the way of justice and truth.
Leader: Let your way be known upon earth;
People: Your saving health among all nations.
Leader: Let not the needy, O Lord, be forgotten;
People: Nor the hope of the poor be taken away.
Leader: Create in us clean hearts, O God;
People: And sustain us with your Holy Spirit.
Collect of the Day: Holy Tuesday
Leader: O God, by the passion of your blessed Son, you made an instrument of shameful death to be, for us, the means of life. Grant us so to glory in the cross of Christ, that we may gladly suffer shame and loss for the sake of your Son our Savior Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
Petitions and Intercessions
Leader: Let us pray now for our own needs and the needs of others.
A Prayer of St. Chrysostom
Leader: Almighty God, you have given us grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplication to you; and you have promised through your well-beloved Son that when two or three are gathered together in his Name you will be in the midst of them. Fulfill now, O Lord, our desires and petitions as may be best for us, granting us, in this world, knowledge of your truth, and in the age to come, life everlasting. Amen.