P: Our help is in the name of the Lord.

All: Who made heaven and earth.

P: The Lord be with you.

All: And with your spirit.

Let us pray.

Holy Lord, almighty Father, everlasting God, be pleased to bless this cross, that it

may be a saving help to mankind. Let it be the support of faith, an encouragement to

good works, the redemption of souls; and let it be consolation, protection, and a

shield against the cruel darts of the enemy; through Christ our Lord.

All: Amen.

Let us pray.

Lord Jesus Christ, bless this cross by which you snatched the world from Satan's

grasp, and on which you overcame by your suffering the tempter to sin, who rejoiced

in the first man's fall in eating of the forbidden tree. May this cross be hallowed in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and

of the Holy Spirit; and may all who kneel and pray before this cross in honor of our

Lord find health in body and soul; through Christ our Lord.

All: Amen.