Mifflin Avenue United Methodist Church

7 PM Worship                                    Good Friday                           22 April 2011

 

GATHERING

   Prelude for Good Friday                                                                                               S. Scott

 

GREETING AND WELCOME

   God is light, in whom there is no darkness at all.

   Jesus Christ is the light of the world.

   And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world,

   and we loved darkness rather than light.

 

PRAYER  in unison

 

   We veil our faces before your glory,

   O Holy and Immortal One,

   and bow before the cross of your wounded Christ.

   With angels and archangels,

   we praise you, our Mercy,

   and we bless you, our Compassion,

   for in our brokenness

   you have not abandoned us.

   Hear us as we pray through Jesus, our high priest:

   heal all division,

   reconcile the estranged,

   console the suffering,

   and raise up to new life

   all that is bound by death.  Amen.

  

HYMN  UMH 292

   What Wondrous Love Is This                                                                          Wondrous Love

 

RESPONSIVE READING  UMH 752

   Psalm 22

 

MUSIC FOR MEDITATION

   Come to Calvary’s Holy Mountain                                                                           D. Johns

THE PASSION OF JESUS CHRIST

 

   FIRST READING

 

   SECOND READING

 

   THIRD READING

 

   FOURTH READING

 

   FIFTH READING

 

        INTERLUDE  UMH 626

         Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence

 

   SIXTH READING

 

   SEVENTH READING

 

   EIGHTH READING

 

   NINTH READING

 

   TENTH READING

 

        INTERLUDE  UMH 288

         Were You There, verses 1-2

 

   ELEVENTH READING

 

   TWELFTH READING

 

   THIRTEENTH READING

 

   FOURTEENTH READING

 

        INTERLUDE  UMH 288

         Were You There, verses 3-5

 

   FIFTEENTH READING

 

   SIXTEENTH READING

 

 

 

   Our service, begun yesterday evening, will conclude on Easter Day at 11 AM.

  

   Please depart in silence. 

 

   Offerings may be placed in the offering plate at the rear of the sanctuary.