Good Friday, Additional Collect (Redub)

God you are our life-blood.

We think of Jesus being

poured out, even to death.

We notice all the suffering in the world

and all the love there is in the world.

May we find you in the agony,

the bleeding, the hurting and the loving.

Amen.

The Gunning Fog readability index suggests 5.55 years of formal education is required to understand this prayer on a first reading, the Common Worship prayer requires 18.89 years.

Here's the information on how this prayer is a redub.

My three Good Friday Collects are here.

You can also look at the full Index of Prayers.

The project runs from Advent 2012 to Advent 2013.

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