Friday 2 April, 2021

Good Friday 

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

Isaiah 52: 13 - 52: 12

A man, despised and laughed to scorn (website only)
*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)
Why has God forsaken me?  (StF 291)

Hebrews 10: 16-25 

Come, let us use the grace divine (StF 549)
I’m accepted, I’m forgiven (StF 427)
Jesus is King and I will extol him (StF 327)
Praise to the holiest in the height (StF 334)
Son of God, if your free grace again has raised me up (StF 336)

or  

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

God, how can we forgive (StF 613)
Jesus, you ask that we forgive (website only)
Meekness and majesty, manhood and deity (StF 362)
*When my love for Christ grows weak (StF 289)

John 18: 1 - 19: 42

Come and see, come and see (StF 270)
O Love divine, what have you done! (StF 278)
O precious sight, my Saviour stands (StF 279)
Pray for the Church, afflicted and oppressed (StF 711)
Son of God humiliated (website only)
*Stay here where nails are driven (StF 282)
We do not hope to ease our minds (StF 717)
*When my love for Christ grows weak (StF 289)
Would I have answered when you called (StF 674)