Commontide
Almighty God, we beseech you graciously to behold this your family, for whom our Lord Jesus Christ was willing to be betrayed and given into the hands of sinners, and to suffer death upon the Cross; who now lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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BCP 2019, p. 608
This prayer appears in more than one place in the 2019 Book of Common Prayer.
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One of the oldest prayers in the Anglican liturgy, this Good Friday collect traces to a Latin text used at Holy Wednesday Mass in the medieval Roman-Sarum rite. Thomas Cranmer translated it in 1549 and moved it to Good Friday, where it has remained ever since; its central image of the Church as God's "family" for whom Christ was handed over is drawn directly from the early-medieval Latin.