From today’s Liturgy of the Hours:
Prayers and Intercessions
God the Father raised Christ from the dead and seated him at his right hand. Let us pray to him humbly:
– Lord, through Christ’s glory, keep your people safe.
Father of justice, you lifted Christ up from the earth through the victory of the cross.
Let all things be drawn to him.
– Lord, through Christ’s glory, keep your people safe.
Through the Son you have raised, send the Holy Spirit into your Church:
let her sanctify and unite the whole human race.
– Lord, through Christ’s glory, keep your people safe.
Through water and the Spirit you brought a new generation into being:
make them faithful to their baptism so that they enter eternal life.
– Lord, through Christ’s glory, keep your people safe.
You lifted up Christ: relieve the sorrowful, free prisoners, heal the sick;
make the whole world rejoice in your blessings.
– Lord, through Christ’s glory, keep your people safe.
To our brethren who have died, you gave the body and blood of Christ in his glory:
raise them from the dead at the end of time.
– Lord, through Christ’s glory, keep your people safe.
Our Father, who art in Heaven,
hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come,
thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our trespasses
as we forgive those who trespass against us,
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
Almighty God, may we celebrate wholeheartedly
these days of rejoicing in honour of the risen Lord.
May what we commemorate at this time
always guide our actions.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God for ever and ever.
Amen.