8 Classic prayers to use during Holy Week

Michie · Mar 27, 2024

A variety of prayers for praising Jesus, adoring the Eucharist, exalting the Cross, and uniting ourselves to God through the death and resurrection of his Son

Here is a selection of prayers you can use during Holy Week to help you go deeper into the events of our salvation.

1 HOSANNA!

Praise the Lord as the angels do (Isaiah 6:3), with the words (inspired by Psalm 118:26) that the crowds used to acclaim Jesus during his triumphant entry into Jerusalem (Mt 21:9). Catholics pray this acclamation at every Mass, and it’s possible that Jesus sang part of it during the Last Supper.

Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts. Heaven and earth are full of your glory. Hosanna in the highest. Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest!

2 PSALM 95: HARDEN NOT YOUR HEARTS!

Adore the Lord with the words of Psalm 95. Many people do this daily during the Liturgy of the Hours, the daily prayer of the Church that marks the different hours of the day.

O come, let us sing to the Lord;
let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!
Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving;
let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!
For the Lord is a great God,
and a great King above all gods.
In his hand are the depths of the earth;
the heights of the mountains are his also.
The sea is his, for he made it,
and the dry land, which his hands have formed.

O come, let us worship and bow down,
let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker!
For he is our God,
and we are the people of his pasture,
and the sheep of his hand.
O that today you would listen to his voice!
Do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah,
as on the day at Massah in the wilderness,
when your ancestors tested me,
and put me to the proof, though they had seen my work.
For forty years I loathed that generation
and said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray,
and they do not regard my ways.”
Therefore in my anger I swore,
“They shall not enter my rest.”

3 PANGE LINGUA

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