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Weekly Services
Good Friday 2022
The word “Tenebrae” is the Latin word for darkness. This service which the Church employs on Good Friday traces the movement of that darkness through the events of the betrayal and death in our Lord’s Passion. The candles on the altar will be extinguished one by one. We are left in darkness and silence, covered by the shadow of the cross. Now is a time to reflect on the meaning of the cross, to meditate, to pray, and reverence.
We depart in that darkness and silence watching for Easter.
Lighting of the Candles
Prayer of the Day
Almighty God, look with loving mercy on your family, for whom our Lord Jesus Christ was willing to be betrayed, to be given over to the hands of sinners, and to suffer death on the cross; who now lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen.
Message
“Go to Dark Gethsemane” #347 vs 1
Go to dark Gethsemane,
all who feel the tempter’s power;
your Redeemer’s conflict see.
Watch with him one bitter hour;
turn not from his griefs away;
learn from Jesus Christ to pray.
Reading John 18:1-11
Silent Prayer
“Go to Dark Gethsemane” #347 vs 2
Follow to the judgment hall,
view the Lord of life arraigned;
oh, the wormwood and the gall!
Oh, the pangs his soul sustained!
Shun not suffering, shame, or loss;
learn from him to bear the cross.
Reading John 18:12-27
Silent Prayer
“Were You There?” #353 vs 2
Were you there
when they nailed him to the tree?
Were you there
when they nailed him to the tree?
Oh, sometimes
it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.
Were you there
when they nailed him to the tree?
Reading John 19:17-22
Silent Prayer
“Were You There?” #353 vs 3
Were you there
when they pierced him in the side?
Were you there
when they pierced him in the side?
Oh, sometimes
it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.
Were you there
when they pierced him in the side?
Reading John 19:23-30
Silent Prayer
“Were You There?” #353 vs 5
Were you there
when they laid him in the tomb?
Were you there
when they laid him in the tomb?
Oh, sometimes
it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.
Were you there
when they laid him in the tomb?
Reading John 19:31-42
Silent Prayer
Procession of the Cross
Reverence and Prayer
All Depart in Silence