Bulletin Date: April 6, 2012 4:00 am
St. Peter’s Church
Good Friday
April 6, 2012 – 7PM
Priest-in-Charge: The Rev. Catherine D. Hicks
(BCP—Book of Common Prayer, S Numbers are the service music found in the front of The Hymnal 1982; WLP-Wonder, Love and Praise)
When you enter these doors, you enter sacred space that has been set aside for God. Before the service, please join us in silence as we meditate on God.
Tolling of the Bell
The service begins in silence.
Entrance—in Silence
Our service begins on page 276 in the Book of Common Prayer.
The Liturgy of the Word
Opening Acclamation
First Reading Isaiah 52:13-53:12
Psalm Psalm 22 BCP 610
Second Reading Hebrews 10:16-25
Sequence Hymn O Sacred Head H 168
The Gospel John 18:1-19:42
The Sermon The Rev. Catherine D. Hicks
The Solemn Collects BCP 277
Hymn Ah, Holy Jesus H 158
The Entrance of the Cross (Silence)
The Veneration of the Cross
Anthem 1 BCP 281
Anthem 2 BCP 281
Anthem 3 BCP 282
The Reproaches
Musical Meditation When I Survey the Wondrous Cross
Helmut Linne von Berg, Violin
The Old Rugged Cross
Marilyn Newman, Harp
Hymn Beneath the Cross of Jesus H 498
The Lord’s Prayer
Concluding Prayer BCP 282
All depart in silence
Good Friday
Since the fourth century, Christians have commemorated the crucifixion of our Lord and Savior on this day. Our liturgy tonight consists of The Liturgy of the Word, The Solemn Collects, and the Veneration of the Cross.
This service continues our worship through the Triduum, the last three days of Holy Week. This service begins and ends in silence. Tonight we continue the worship that we began last night at the Maundy Thursday service. On Sunday morning, we will celebrate the resurrection of our Lord and Savior.
During the Veneration of the Cross, and after the Anthems, you are invited to come forward and pray at the altar rail. You are welcome to take one of the roses and a candle from the window near you and place these on the altar as part of your prayer.
If you would like to leave a prayer at the foot of the cross, you will find slips of paper in your pew on which you can write a prayer and bring it to the altar. These prayers are between you and God. They will not be read. Tomorrow night we will offer up these prayers as incense by burning them and letting them rise to heaven in our new paschal fire on Sunday morning.
Thanks be to God for the beautifully crafted cross used in our service tonight, made and given for the glory of God by Helmut Linne von Berg.
Our thanksgivings to Helmut Linne von Berg for the gift of his violin music and to Marilyn Newman for the gift of her harp music.
The Reproaches
Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by?
Look and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow
Which was brought upon me,
Which the Lord inflicted on me in the day of his fierce anger.
Holy God, holy and mighty,
Holy immortal One, have mercy upon us.
O my people, O my Church,
What have I done to you, or in what have I offended you?
Testify against me.
I led you forth from the land of Egypt,
And delivered you by the waters of Baptism,
But you have prepared a cross for your Saviour.
Holy God, holy and mighty,
Holy immortal One, have mercy upon us.
I led you through the desert for forty years,
And fed you with manna,
I brought you through tribulation and penitence,
And gave you my body, the bread of heaven,
But you have prepared a cross for your Saviour.
Holy God, holy and mighty,
Holy immortal One, have mercy upon us.
What more could I have done for you
That I have not done?
I planted you, my chosen and fairest vineyard,
I made you the branches of my vine;
But when I was thirsty, you gave me vinegar to drink,
And pierced with a spear the side of your Saviour.
Holy God, holy and mighty,
Holy immortal One, have mercy upon us.
I went before you in a pillar of cloud,
And you have led me to the judgment hall of Pilate.
I scourged your enemies and brought you
To a land of freedom,
But you have scourged, mocked and beaten me.
I gave you the water of salvation from the rock,
But you have given me gall and left me to thirst.
Holy God, holy and mighty,
Holy immortal One, have mercy upon us.
I gave you a royal scepter
And bestowed the keys to the kingdom,
But you have given me a crown of thorns.
I raised you on high with great power,
But you have hanged me on the cross.
Holy God, holy and mighty,
Holy immortal One, have mercy upon us.
My peace I gave, which the world cannot give,
And washed your feet as a sign of my love,
But you draw the sword to strike in my name,
And seek high places in my kingdom.
I offered you my body and blood,
But you scatter and deny and abandon me.
Holy God, holy and mighty,
Holy immortal One, have mercy upon us.
I sent the spirit of truth to guide you,
And you close your hearts to the Counselor.
I pray that all may be as one in the Father and me,
But you continue to quarrel and divide.
I call you to go and bring forth fruit,
But you cast lots for my clothing.
Holy God, holy and mighty,
Holy immortal One, have mercy upon us.
I grafted you into the tree of my chosen Israel,
And you turned on them with persecution
And mass murder.
I made you joint heirs with them of my covenants,
But you made them scapegoats for your own guilt.
Holy God, holy and mighty,
Holy immortal One, have mercy upon us.
I came to you as the least of your brothers and sisters;
I was hungry and you gave me no food,
I was thirsty and you gave me no drink,
I was a stranger and you did not welcome me,
Naked and you did not clothe me,
Sick and in prison and you did not visit me.
Holy God, holy and mighty,
Holy immortal One, have mercy upon us.
From Ashes to Fire, Abingdon Press. Used by permission.