Good Friday, Collect (Redub)

Loving God

look with mercy and grace

on the whole creation, which our saviour,

Jesus the Christ served, even to death.

May the passion, death and hope

of this day of goodness transform

our lives and our world.

Amen.

The Gunning Fog readability index suggests 8.65 years of formal education is required to understand this prayer on a first reading, the Common Worship prayer requires 22.34 years.

Here's the information on how this prayer is a redub.

My three Good Friday Collects are here.

You can also look at the full Index of Prayers.

The project runs from Advent 2012 to Advent 2013.

If you want to use the prayers, an acknowledgement of myself as author and, if there's space, the link to my blog would be much appreciated.