Good Friday Prayer

The Great Intercessions (Latin orationes solemnes ) are special prayers in the celebration of the Lord's Passion on Good Friday, is used in the Old Catholic, Anglican and Roman Catholic Church.

Roman Catholic Church

Structure and sequence

The Great intercessions form in the Good Friday liturgy of the Roman Rite the third part of the Good Friday celebration. They formulate the response of the liturgical assembly to the previous scripture readings and dirges ( Improperia ).

All the greats prayers consist of three parts: the priest sings an invitation to prayer with the names of the concern; he or a present deacon asks, to bend the knee. In the kneeling of the community follows a silent prayer. After the prompt, " Arise " summarizes the priest 's prayer concerns with the Oration together, the answer to all with " Amen."

The following prayers are recited:

History

From the 5th century to the liturgical reform after the Second Vatican Council and still in the Usus antiquior were today or are these prayers in the Roman liturgy the only residue of the early church Fürbittpraxis. The Great prayers were recited at the Epistle side by the priest. The call for squat was performed by the deacon, the request for standing after the squat was performed by the sub-deacon, prayer by the priest.

A peculiar feature the Jews intercession dar. this related from about 800 to 1960, the kneeling, and the Jews were in prayer text as perfidis - ( etymologically, " disbelief "; effective in history: the " disloyal, despicable " and others), their religion as iudaicam perfidia ( " Jewish infidelity " ) referred. Since 1956, the Vatican removed gradually these anti-Jewish elements. 1965 and 1970 of the prayer text itself has been repeatedly recast. The Jews intercession still constitutes a particularly critical point in Jewish- Catholic dialogue.

Another special feature of the Great intercessions before the liturgical reform was the intercession of the Roman emperor. She was reported to the typical edition of 1962 in the Missal and stood in fourth place (after the intercessions for the Church, the Pope and the assets of the Church ). The priest asked, " that our God and Lord subject to him all the barbarian peoples make to our lasting peace ." In case of not winning the Emperor's Subjects enrolled prior to pray per imperatore electo; however, there is no reference to the possibility of omission - though there is actually no emperor of the Holy Roman Empire were more since 1806 as patron of the church - even if this has been handled differently in some places. In their place is found in the renewed Good Friday intercessions from 1970 /75 Intercession for the government in ninth place.

Old Catholic Church

The following requests have been or will be carried forward:

In addition, the Eucharist 2006 book offers two additional forms for the big prayers to choose from, one of which comes from Huub Oosterhuis. A special prayer for the Jews does not contain the altar book of 1885. In the edition of 1959 gave them; in the Eucharist Book of 1995, she has eliminated without replacement.