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 our Lord. Amen.
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A Holy Week prayer that turns Christ's road to the Cross into the pattern of every disciple's path, composed in the 1890s and formally entered into the 1928 American Book of Common Prayer.