Friday, April 18, 2014
Good Friday – Year A
Good Friday – Year A
07:30 pm Stations of the CROSS
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Good Friday Service
ISAIAH 52:13, 53:12
13 Look, my servant will prosper, will grow great, will
rise to great heights.
12 Hence I shall give him a portion with the many, and he
will share the booty with the mighty, for having exposed himself to death and
for being counted as one of the rebellious, whereas he was bearing the sin of
many and interceding for the rebellious.
“The Word of the Lord”
2 [For the choirmaster Psalm Of David] In you, Yahweh, I
have taken refuge, let me never be put to shame, in your saving justice deliver
me, rescue me,
6 to your hands I commit my spirit, by you have I been
redeemed. God of truth,
12 The sheer number of my enemies makes me contemptible,
loathsome to my neighbours, and my friends shrink from me in horror. When
people see me in the street they take to their heels.
13 I have no more place in their hearts than a corpse, or
something lost.
15 But my trust is in you, Yahweh; I say, 'You are my
God,'
16 every moment of my life is in your hands, rescue me
from the clutches of my foes who pursue me;
17 let your face shine on your servant, save me in your faithful love.
17 let your face shine on your servant, save me in your faithful love.
25 Be brave, take heart, all who put your hope in Yahweh.
HEBREWS 4:14-16, 5:7-9,
14 Since in Jesus, the Son of God, we have the supreme
high priest who has gone through to the highest heaven, we must hold firm to
our profession of faith.
15 For the high priest we have is not incapable of
feeling our weaknesses with us, but has been put to the test in exactly the
same way as ourselves, apart from sin.
16 Let us, then, have no fear in approaching the throne
of grace to receive mercy and to find grace when we are in need of help.
7 During his life on earth, he offered up prayer and
entreaty, with loud cries and with tears, to the one who had the power to save
him from death, and, winning a hearing by his reverence,
8 he learnt obedience, Son though he was, through his
sufferings;
9 when he had been perfected, he became for all who obey
him the source of eternal salvation.
“The Word of the Lord”
JOHN 19:1-19, 42
1 Pilate then had Jesus taken away and scourged;
2 and after this, the soldiers twisted some thorns into
a crown and put it on his head and dressed him in a purple robe.
3 They kept coming up to him and saying, 'Hail, king of
the Jews!' and slapping him in the face.
4 Pilate came outside again and said to them, 'Look, I
am going to bring him out to you to let you see that I find no case against
him.'
5 Jesus then came out wearing the crown of thorns and
the purple robe. Pilate said, 'Here is the man.'
7 The Jews replied, 'We have a Law, and according to
that Law he ought to be put to death, because he has claimed to be Son of God.'
8 When Pilate heard them say this his fears increased.
9 Re-entering the Praetorium, he said to Jesus, 'Where
do you come from?' But Jesus made no answer.
10 Pilate then said to him, 'Are you refusing to speak to
me? Surely you know I have power to release you and I have power to crucify
you?'
11 Jesus replied, 'You would have no power over me at all
if it had not been given you from above; that is why the man who handed me over
to you has the greater guilt.'
12 From that moment Pilate was anxious to set him free,
but the Jews shouted, 'If you set him free you are no friend of Caesar's;
anyone who makes himself king is defying Caesar.'
13 Hearing these words, Pilate had Jesus brought out, and
seated him on the chair of judgement at a place called the Pavement, in Hebrew
Gabbatha.
14 It was the Day of Preparation, about the sixth hour.
'Here is your king,' said Pilate to the Jews.
15 But they shouted, 'Away with him, away with him,
crucify him.' Pilate said, 'Shall I crucify your king?' The chief priests
answered, 'We have no king except Caesar.'
16 So at that Pilate handed him over to them to be
crucified. They then took charge of Jesus,
17 and carrying his own cross he went out to the Place of
the Skull or, as it is called in Hebrew, Golgotha,
18 where they crucified him with two others, one on
either side, Jesus being in the middle.
19 Pilate wrote out a notice and had it fixed to the
cross; it ran: 'Jesus the Nazarene, King of the Jews'.
42 Since it was the Jewish Day of Preparation and the
tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.
“The Gospel of the Lord”
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