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'''Good Friday Prayer''' can refer to any of the [[prayer]]s prayed by [[Christianity|Christians]] on [[Good Friday]], the Friday before [[Easter]], or to all such prayers collectively.
==Eastern Orthodox prayer on Good Friday
Eastern Orthodox Christians spend all this day in fasting from all food, to the extent that their health permits. It is the one day of the year they are forbidden from celebrating the [[Divine Liturgy]], thereby fasting from the [[Eucharist]] as well. Instead, they meet up to three times during the day for prayer:
* ''Royal Hours'' in the forenoon, including many Psalms, Old Testament and New Testament readings;
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: Myrrh is fitting for the dead, but Christ has shown Himself a stranger to corruption.
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However, some writers use the term "Good Friday Prayer" to refer to a specific portion from a [[litany]] (prayer of petition) that is offered in certain churches on that day. Before the reforms introduced shortly before and after the [[Second Vatican Council]], the particular form of the prayer offered in [[Roman Catholicism|Roman Catholic church]]es ran like this (please note particularly the second petition below):
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