Good Friday 2020

Good Friday At the cross for the final hour

10 April 2020 2.00pm

Welcome Collect Eternal God, in the cross of Jesus we see the cost of our sin and the depth of your love: in humble hope and fear may we place at his feet all that we have and all that we are, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen.

Old Testament Reading

Isaiah 52.13-end of 53

Silence

Antiphon Solo:

He was despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.

Words: Isaiah 53.3 Music: G.F. Händel (1685-1759)

Psalm 22.1-11 New Testament Reading

Hebrews 10.19-25

Silence

Passion Reading We listen to the Passion read by multiple voices from multiple English Cathedrals Silence

Homily Bishop Nick from his Chapel

The Proclamation of the Cross Intercessions Hymn

When I survey

Conclusion Most merciful God, who by the death and resurrection of your Son Jesus Christ delivered and saved the world: grant that by faith in him who suffered on the cross we may triumph in the power of his victory; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.

Amen.

Silence until 2.58pm

Final words

John 19.38-42