Recall your insights or experiences
from the first part of our online Holy Week retreat
—your readings, your prayers, and your feelings—
and thank the Lord for the graces you received.

Your prayer may go something like this:

Dear Lord Jesus,

Thank you for all your blessings yesterday.

If there’s one thing I learned about You yesterday,
it is ____________________________________________.

And if there’s one thing I learned about my life,
it is ____________________________________________.

Thank You for these insights,
as well as for the other graces You gave me.

Today I choose to walk with You
as You take up Your cross.
Help me to keep my eyes on You
because knowing You will reveal God’s face to me.
Knowing You will also help me understand my life better
and help me take up my own cross.

You know me much more than I know myself.
You understand my life much more than I do.
Once again I entrust myself to You
and ask You to take me by the hand.

I also entrust to you all the persons that I love.
In a special way, I offer this retreat for…

(please specify your intention)

This I ask through the prayers of Mary Your Mother.

Amen.

Once again, we are invited into the dungeon
as we begin this Good Friday retreat.
Think of what you most desire from the Lord right now.
Name the grace you seek today, and whenever you’re ready,
write it as graffiti on the dungeon wall below.