Friday 25 March, 2016

Good Friday

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

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)

John 18: 1-19:42

Come and see, come and see (StF 270)
From heaven you came, helpless babe (StF 272)
Here hangs a man discarded (StF 273)
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 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)

See also Andrew Murphy’s hymn, Son of God humiliated