Here’s
a closing prayer and benediction for Good Friday. It was written by Carol Penner, and posted on
the Mennonite Church Canada Resource
Centre website.
Closing Prayer and Benediction
for Good Friday
God
thank you for being with us in this wondering moment
where
we stand poised between life and death,
filled
to the brim with sorrow,
filled
with thoughts of what has been
and
what lies before us.
Thank
you for the gift of life.
Thank
you for our friend Jesus
who
was a gift to the world,
a
gift in each of our lives.
Comfort
us even as we are shaken by the horror of these last hours.
Be
our friend in this time of sorrow,
and
sustain us in the days to come.
Now
Jesus, may God bless you and keep you,
May
the very face of God shine upon you, and be gracious to you,
May
God’s presence embrace you and give you eternal peace.
Amen.
~
written by Carol Penner, in A Funeral for
Jesus: Good Friday Service. Posted on Mennonite Church Canada Resource Centre website. http://resources.mennonitechurch.ca/FileDownload/17212/A_Funeral_for_Jesus.pdf
