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We can tend to have a low view of memorisation – perhaps it conjures up those dreary school lessons spent reciting the kings and queens of England, or, still worse, we associate it with a dead spirituality, all outward forms and vain repetition. But, just as we might want to commit particular Scriptural verses or passages to memory, I’d like to suggest that we might find it helpful to do the same for parts of the liturgy – that liturgical familiarity is more often a friend than it is a foe.

Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, author of The Book of Homilies (including this from Homily 1) is ‘interviewed’ by Simon Tomkins on the reading and knowledge of Holy Scripture.

As we come to Good Friday, it’s instructive to see the particular theological and devotional emphases that the Prayer Book Collects appointed for the day aim to bring out. There are three special Good Friday Collects, which I provide below with some brief reflections.

The distinctive structure of the Prayer Book Collects is very helpful in composing our own prayers, in private and public, says Mark Smith.