GOOD FRIDAY

THE SEVEN SAYINGS OF OUR LORD ON THE CROSS

MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAST THOU FORSAKEN ME? (Matt. 27, 46 and Mark 15, 34)

FATHER, FORGIVE THEM, FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO. (Luke 23, 34)

VERILY, I SAY UNTO THEE, TODAY SHALT THOU BE WITH ME IN PARADISE. (Luke 23, 43)

FATHER, INTO THY HANDS I COMMEND MY SPIRIT. (Luke 23, 46)

WOMAN, BEHOLD THY SON, (then said He to the disciple) BEHOLD THY MOTHER. (John 19, 26)

I THIRST. (John 19, 28)

IT IS FINISHED! (John 19, 30)

AN ORDER OF SERVICE FOR GOOD FRIDAY

**The Minister will open the Service by saying:

And the second malefactor said unto Jesus: Lord, remember me when Thou comest into Thy Kingdom. And Jesus said unto him: VERILY, I SAY UNTO THEE, TODAY SHALT THOU BE WITH ME IN PARADISE.

HYMN
(The congregation standing)

**The congregation being seated, the Minister will then read the following prophecies from Isaiah 52 and 53:

How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace, that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation, that saith unto Zion: Thy God reigneth! Thy watchman shall lift up the voice; with the voice together they sing, for they shall see eye to eye, when the Lord shall bring again Zion.

Who hath believed our report, and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? For He shall grow up before Him a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground. He hath no form nor comliness; and when we shall see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and we hid as it were our faces from Him.

** The Minister will then say:

LET US PRAY

O TENDER Father, we thank Thee for the gift of Thy Son Jesus Christ, Who came to live on Earth as man, to be our example in loving obedience to Thy Will. In His great love He endured the agony of the Garden and the Cross that He might bring all men into fellowship with Thee. Grant us Thy Holy Spirit so that we may have grace to follow in His footsteps, and work with Him to establish Thy kingdom of peace on Earth, to the glory of Thy Name. Amen

**All will say the Lord's Prayer together:

OUR FATHER, Who art in Heaven, all hallowed be Thy Name. Thy Kingdom come. Thy Will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. When in temptation Thy love sustains us, and deliver us from evil. For Thine is the Kingdom, the Power and the Glory. For ever and for ever. Amen.

**After a brief pause the Minister will continue:

Surely He hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we did esteem Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

But He was wounded for our transgressions; He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes, we are healed.

All we, like sheep, have gone astray; we have turned, everyone to his own way.

He was afflicted; yet he opened not His mouth. He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before the shearers is dumb, so He openeth not His mouth.

He was taken from prison and from judgement; and He made His grave with the wicked, and with the rich in His death, because He had done no violence; neither was any deceit in His mouth.

Isaiah 53, 4