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Good Friday Service
Good Friday Service
by Christine Odell
Good Friday Service A service of linked Call to Worship, hymns, Old and New Testament readings, prayers and meditations Call to Worship: Today is a solemn day. The day when we remember the sufferings and death of Christ our Lord upon the cross: the total self-giving of Love for t…
Open with God Book - Good Friday Prayer
Open with God Book - Good Friday Prayer
by Christine Odell
Good Friday Reading: Mark 15.20b-39 or Mark 15.6-39 Place a cross somewhere prominent and ask those present to reflect on it and the feelings of the first disciples on Good Friday. Nothing can prepare us, loving God, for the reality of this day. We, Christ’s disciples, had not wa…
Festivals Together - Serious stillness
Festivals Together - Serious stillness
by SPCK - Sandra Millar
Serious stillness Good Friday Good Friday is always a public holiday in the United Kingdom, regardless of where Easter and school holidays fall. This means it is increasingly an opportunity for churches to engage with a range of ages. However, Good Friday presents particular chal…
Last Journeys with Jesus - Holy Week Service
Last Journeys with Jesus - Holy Week Service
by Christine Odell
Last Journeys with Jesus A service of readings, Hymns, eyewitness meditations and prayers suitable for Good Friday/Holy Week Out of the Tomb – John 11:32-44 – Lazarus I am aware of darkness. I am alone and icy cold. I cannot move, for the bonds of death hold me fast. I am beyon…
Reflections for Holy Week - Jesus Wept
Reflections for Holy Week - Jesus Wept
by Michaela Youngson
Jesus Wept Luke 19.28-48 The fresh green of Olivet soon gives way to the barren waste of Golgotha and somewhere between the two is the City. When he came in sight of the city, Jesus wept over it. The city in which dreams are born, wealth grows, mornings bring the luxurious cries …
Reflections for Holy Week - Jar and Nard
Reflections for Holy Week - Jar and Nard
by Michaela Youngson
Jar and Nard Matthew 26.6-13 A jar, fit to hold something precious, broken open to allow its contents to flow in scandalous, intimate, tactile generosity. The pot is royal purple and holy blue, with silver strands that hint at wealth. The colour of death, the colour of lent...
A Prayer for the Son of Man
A Prayer for the Son of Man
by Rev. Gary Homewood
A truly powerful prayer for use on Good Friday. This item will download as 13011006328731.doc Extract: Now is the hour. The sky is black with the anguish and the sin of the world, And the Son of Man, the Son of God, Hangs from a Cross, bleeding and dying for those who have nailed…
Where bodies hang in bloody torment