Friday 19 April, 2019

Good Friday

Hymns marked with an asterisk (*) are suggested for more than one reading

General

Almighty God, to whom all hearts are open (StF 749)
Kyrie eleison (Lord have mercy) (StF 750)
Lamb of God (StF 767)
Jesus the carpenter (StF 275)
My song is love unknown (StF 277)

Isaiah 52: 13-53: 12

Man of Sorrows! What a name (StF 361)
Stay here where nails are driven (StF 282)
The desolate Messiah dies (StF 283)

Psalm 22

Hymns echoing the psalmist’s theme

Deep in the darkness a starlight is gleaming (StF 625)
How long, O Lord, will you forget (StF 630)

Hebrews 10: 16-25

Jesus is King and I will extol him (StF 327)
Praise to the holiest (StF 334)
Son of God, if your free grace again has raised me up (StF 336)

or Hebrews 4: 14-16; 5 :7-9

And can it be that I should gain (StF 345)
Be still, for the presence of the Lord (StF 20)
Come, wounded Healer, your sufferings reveal (StF 271)
Lord, enthroned in heavenly splendour (StF 593)
Lord, I come before your throne of grace (StF 58)

John 18: 1-19:42

Come and see, come and see (StF 270)
From heaven you came, helpless babe (StF 272)
Heaven shall not wait (StF 701)
Here hangs a man discarded (StF 273)
Lord we recall your words (website only) omitting v.3
O Love divine, what have you done! (StF 278)
Pray for the Church, afflicted and oppressed (StF 711)
Son of God humiliated (website only)
There is a green hill far away (StF 284)
Were you there when they crucified my Lord? (StF 285)
When circumstances make my life too hard to understand (StF 641)
When I survey the wondrous cross (StF 287)
Would I have answered when you called (StF 674)
You call us, as you called the Twelve (website only)