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For Guidance

O God, by whom the meek are guided in judgment, and light rises up in darkness for the godly: Grant us, in all our doubts and uncertainties, the grace to ask what you would have us do, that the Spirit of wisdom may save us from all false choices; that in your light we may see light, and in your straight path we may not stumble; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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Holy Week

Good Friday — Concluding Prayer

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the living God, we pray you to set your passion, Cross, and death between your judgment and our souls, now and in the hour of our death. Give mercy and grace to the living; peace and rest to the dead; to your holy Church unity and concord; and to us sinners everlasting life and glory; for with the Father and the Holy Spirit you live and reign, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

DOmine iesu christe fili dei viui pone passionem crucem et mortem tuam inter iudicium tuum et animas nostras nunc et in hora mortis nostre: largire digneris viuis misericordiam et gratiam / defunctis requiem et veniam / ecclesie tue sancte pacem et concordiam: et nobis peccatoribus vitam et gloriam sempiternam. Qui cum patre et spiritusancto viuis et regnas deus.

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Provenance

Sarum Hours, by 1498

Draft — AI-assisted research under editorial review.

A medieval private devotion from the Sarum "Hours of the Cross," attested in print by 1498, that entered authorized Anglican worship only in the 1979 Book of Common Prayer as the fixed close of Good Friday.