Good Friday

Tenebrae Service

7:00 pm

2 April 2010

It is finished!

The congregation gathers in reflective silence. As the bell tolls the congregation rises.

opening versicles   (spoken)

P   O Lord, open my lips,

C  and my mouth will declare Your praise.

P   Make haste, O God, to deliver me;

C  make haste to help me, O Lord.

     Praise to You, O Christ, Lamb of our salvation.

Choir           “Kyrie”

Psalmody

(Gloria Patri is omitted, at the conclusion of each Psalm a candle is extinguished)

Psalm 22     (antiphon, v. 19, “O Lord, do not be far off! Come quickly to my aid!”)

Psalm 2       (antiphon, v. 11, 12b, “Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling,
                    for his wrath is quickly kindled.”)

Psalm 27     (antiphon, v. 9c, “Forsake me not, O God of my salvation.”)

Psalm 51     (antiphon, v. 2, “Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from
                    my sin!”)

The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ

Hymn:             “O Sacred Head, Now Wounded” (Hymn 450, stanzas 1-3)

P:                        The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ according to St. John, the 19^th chapter.

Reading:                       John 19:1-16a

A candle is extinguished.

Hymn:             “O Sacred Head, Now Wounded” (Hymn 450, stanzas 4-7)

Reading:            John 19:16b-42

After the reading:               P          O Lord, have mercy on us.

                                           C          Thanks be to God.

A candle is extinguished.

lenten responsory   (spoken)                                                                         page 222

office Hymn                                                  “Stricken, Smitten and Afflicted” (Hymn 451)

Sermon

Hymn                                                                                        “Abide with Me” (Hymn 878)

prayers   (spoken)

P   Lord, have mercy.

C  Lord, have mercy.

P   Christ, have mercy.

C  Christ, have mercy.

P   Lord, have mercy.

C  Lord, have mercy.

THE LORD'S prayers   (spoken)

P   The Lord be with you.

C  And also with you.

P   Let us pray. Almighty God, graciously behold this Your family for whom our Lord Jesus Christ was willing to be betrayed and delivered into the hands of sinful men to suffer death upon the cross; through the same Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.

C  Amen.

Collect

P   Let us pray. Almighty and everlasting God, You willed that Your Son should bear for us the pains of the cross and so remove from us the power of the adversary. Help us so to remember and give thanks for our Lord’s passion that we may receive forgiveness of sin and redemption from everlasting death; through Jesus Christ, our Lord.

C  Amen.

Choir Quartet           “Adoramus Te Christi”

The final candle is extinguished.

The pastor and congregation leave in silence in minimal light

The offering will be collected in the back.