The
Congregations of St. Mark’s and St. David’s
United
Church of Canada
Port
Hawkesbury/Port Hastings, NS
Office:
625-2229, Fax 625-3597, e-mail: stmarks1@eastlink.ca
Blog:
http://ourcontactonline.blogspot.com/
Ministers:
Whole People of God
Minister:
Nan Corrigan D. M. Music Director: Al Fougere
Good
Friday
March
29th,
2013
St.
Mark's United Church, Port Hawkesbury
11:00 a.m.
We Gather to Worship God
Lighting of the Christ Candle in the Lenten Triad
Introit Jesus,
Remember Me VU148
Jesus, remember me when
you come into your kingdom.
Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.
Entry of the Cross
Opening Reflection What is the sound of a broken Hallelujah?
Response Jesus,
remember me when you come into your kingdom.
Jesus,
remember me when you come into your kingdom.
Prayer
of Confession A Drama Prayer
at the Cross
Response Jesus,
remember me when you come into your kingdom.
Jesus,
remember me when you come into your kingdom.
(Time
of silent reflection)
We Listen for God’s Word
Sung
Response: Alone in Gethsemane (music back of bulletin)
John
18: 1-12
Alone in Gethsemane, bent low 'neath the olive tree.
Here love must weep while mortals sleep,
alone in Gethsemane.
John
18: 13-27
John
18: 28-40
Alone in the judgment hall, no shield from the crowd's
mad call.
Condemned to die as friends deny,
Alone in the judgment hall.
John
19: 1-17
Alone on the Calvary road, he stumbles beneath the load.
Yet ever drawn love presses on,
Alone on the Calvary road.
John
19: 18-30
Alone on Golgotha's hill, there hungering and thirsting
still.
Yet more for you he's yearning still,
Alone on Golgotha's hill.
Alone on the cross he cries, surrenders his soul and
dies.
In silence now love seals its vow,
Alone on the cross he cries.
We Respond in Faith
Meditative
Action
You
are invited to
take part in an action that reflects that we will wait now with
Jesus. Come forward to the cross, wet your hand in the basin and
leave a handprint on the cross as a symbol of waiting. As the
handprint dries, may it be symbolic that we wait only for a short
time now; for we believe soon, very soon, there is a tomb, a rolled
stone, and dawn on its way.
The Prayer of Jesus
John
19: 38-42
Alone in the cold stone grave, love there even death
would brave.
Look through the gloom and empty tomb,
Alone now the cold stone grave!
We Go to Serve God
Extinguishing of Christ CandleOne: Today is the darkest day of the year. Today we remember the power of these things which block God’s light, block us from following God's way of loving and caring for this world and one another.All: Today we remember them all: anger, greed, fear, pride, envy, and helplessness. Today we experience the darkness of Christ’s death, and the separation between God and humanity portrayed in that death.One: It is finished. The light of the world has been put out.
(Christ
Candle is extinguished.)
Commissioning
