Commontide
Friday — Morning Prayer
Almighty God, whose most dear Son went not up to joy but first he suffered pain, and entered not into glory before he was crucified: Mercifully grant that we, walking in the way of the Cross, may find it none other than the way of life and peace; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord. Amen.
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Composed by William Reed Huntington in the 1890s and first adopted in the US BCP 1928, this collect for Monday in Holy Week weaves two antitheses from Cranmer's sickbed exhortation into a petition that the way of the Cross and the way of life are one and the same road.