Litany for Good Friday

Deliver Us and Give us Peace

Lord Jesus,
by your cross and resurrection
deliver us
by your witness to the truth
deliver us
by your passion and death
deliver us
by your victory over the grave
deliver us
from the lust of power
deliver us
from the conspiracy of silence
deliver us
from the worship of weapons
deliver us
from the slaughter of innocents
deliver us
from the nightmare of hunger
deliver us
from the peace that is no peace
deliver us
from security that is no security
deliver us
from the politics of terror
deliver us
from the plundering of the earth's resources
deliver us
from the dispossession of the poor
deliver us
from the despair of this age
deliver us
by the light of the gospel
give us peace
by the good news for the poor
give us peace
by your healing of our wounds
give us peace
by faith in your word
give us peace
by hunger and thirst for justice
give us peace
by the coming of your kingdom
give us peace
Amen.

 

—John Davies, England

From Let Justice Roll Down: A Worship Resource for Lent, Holy Week and Easter, edited by Geoffrey Duncan; published by Pilgrim Press (August 2004).  Posted on the Education for Justice website. 

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For other prayers and litanies for Good Friday, see Prayer for Good Friday and Good Friday Prayer of Praise and Confession.