Three Sacred Days




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Walking alone, Lord, you go to your sacrifice, victim of death, and our death's mighty conqueror.  What can we say to you, knowing our poverty, you, who have freed us from sin and from slavery?


Ours are the sins, Lord, and we are the guilty ones, you, in your innocence, take on our punishment; grant that our spirits may share in your suffering, may our compassion respond to your pardoning.


Three sacred days are the time of our sorrowing, as we endure now the night of our heaviness, until the morning restores to us joyfulness; Christ, newly risen, brings gladness for tearfulness.


Grant us, O Lord, to take part in your suffering, that we may share in your heavenly victory; through these sad days living humbly and patiently, may we at Eastertide see you smile graciously.

Peter Abelard, 1079-1142