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Good Friday

Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread: And forgive us our trespasses, As we forgive them that trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation. ℟. But deliver us from evil.

Then the Priest shall say silently Amen, and afterward, in the same voice as he said Our Father, immediately and without Let us pray, he shall begin this prayer following, and say it in the ferial tone used for the Collect at Mass.

DELIVER us, O Lord, we beseech thee, from all evils, past, present, and to come: and at the intercession of the blessed and glorious Ever-Virgin Mary, Mother of God, with thy blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and with Andrew, and all thy Saints (he does not sign himself with the paten), graciously grant us peace in all our days, that by thine availing mercy, we may ever both be free from sin and safe from all distress. Through the same Jesus Christ, thy Son, our Lord: Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. ℟. Amen.

Then the Celebrant, having made a reverence down to the ground, slides the paten beneath the Sacrament: and taking the Host in his right hand, he lifts it up so that it may be seen by the people: and immediately dividing it into three parts over the chalice, he shall place the last part into the chalice in the usual way, but saying nothing. The Peace of the Lord is not said, nor O Lamb of God, nor is the kiss of peace given. And afterward, having omitted the first two prayers, he shall say this one only:

O LORD Jesu Christ, I, thine unworthy servant, do presume to take thy Body: but let not this act be to my judgment and damnation; rather, of thy mercy