Good Friday Special Intention for the Health Pandemic

The decree from the Congregation for Divine Worship says that “the Bishops will see to it that there is a special intention for the sick, the death, for those who feel lost or dismayed” in the Universal Prayer. Fr. Paul Turner kindly shared the prayer he wrote for his bishop and asked me to set it to music to match the other intentions in the missal. Here it is.

Good Friday Intercession for Pandemic 2020

 

Anthony Ruff, OSB

Fr. Anthony Ruff, OSB, is a monk of St. John's Abbey. He teaches liturgy, liturgical music, and Gregorian chant at St. John's University School of Theology-Seminary. He is widely published and frequently presents across the country on liturgy and music. He is the author of Sacred Music and Liturgical Reform: Treasures and Transformations, and of Responsorial Psalms for Weekday Mass: Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter. He does priestly ministry at the neighboring community of Benedictine sisters in St. Joseph.

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2 responses to “Good Friday Special Intention for the Health Pandemic”

  1. John Farley

    Anthony,

    Did you ever set the special intention you wrote for victims of clergy sexual abuse to the new tone? I would love to have the revised version.

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      Anthony Ruff, OSB

      I didn’t write such an intention, John. Sorry.

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