Look down on your family, O Lord. For us our Lord Jesus Christ did not hesitate to be betrayed into evil hands and tormented by a cross.
Through the same Jesus Christ, your Son our Lord. He lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.
Amen.
Respice quaesumus, Domine super hanc familiam tuam, pro qua Dominus noster Jusus Christus non dubitavit manibus tradi nocentium, et crucis subire tormentum, qui tecum.
Photo: Good Friday 2010, Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church of Peoria, Illinois
Today's Prayer of the Day and the first words I speak in the noon Good Friday Liturgy, as found and translated in Prayers for the Eucharistic Gathering, by Eugene Andrew Lehrke. It's Pastor Lehrke's translation of the Latin prayer (above) first found in the 5th Century (?) Gelasian Sacramentary, and which was used in the pre-Vatican II Roman Missal for Holy Wednesday.
1 comment:
A font veiled in black? I've never seen that before.
Very appropriate. And what an appropriate contrast to the Pascha picture posted above it!
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