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Greenbank Parish Church, Edinburgh
Good Friday, 29th March 2024 at 7.30pm
Livestreamed and In-Person
Order of Service
Hymns are from CH4 and Readings are from NRSV
Conducted by: The Very Rev Dr Derek Browning
Preacher: The Rev Julia Cato
Director of Music: Maestro Alberto Massimo
Organist: Morley Whitehead
Music: Excerpts from The Passion of Christ, by Arthur Somervell
Introit: Greater Love hath no man
Call to Worship
Is it nothing to you, you passers-by?
If only you would look and see:
is there any agony like mine?
Lamentations 1:12
Hymn 403: Were you there when they crucified my Lord? [Tune: Where you there]
Prayer
The Betrayal
Reading: Matthew 27: 15–26 (NT p30)
My Lord and Master
Reading: Matthew 27: 27–31
The way of the cross
Reading: Matthew 27: 32–44
Is it nothing to you?
Reading: Matthew 27: 45–61
Hymn 380: There is a green hill far away [Tune: Horsley]
Sermon: On the Cross – the place of suffering
Prayer & Lord’s Prayer (“Debts”)
Hymn 392: When I survey the wondrous cross [Tune: Rockingham]
Closing Words
Save us, O Lord, waking,
And guard us sleeping;
That awake we may watch with Christ,
And asleep we may rest in peace.
The Lord almighty grant you
A quiet night and a perfect end.
Amen
We leave in silence
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