Good Friday At Home

GOOD FRIDAY at HOME

Choose some appropriate music to play in the background if you wish, but silence is preferable. If there are two or more of you, you may wish to have one say the lead part and another say the second part. If alone, just say both parts out loud or read them to yourself.

Christ himself bore our sins in his body on the tree. That we might die to sin and live to righteousness.

Pray: Almighty God, your Son Jesus Christ was lifted high upon the cross so that he might draw the whole world to himself. Grant that we, who glory in this death for our salvation, may also glory in his call to take up our cross and follow him; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

If you wish, listen or sing along with this classic hymn, Alas! And Did My Savior Bleed (search on YouTube).

Read Isaiah 52:13–53:12

Read Psalm 22

Read Hebrews 10:16 –25

Listen or sing with Crown Him with Many Crowns (search on YouTube)

Take time to read the Passion Story in John 18:1–19:42

Personal Prayer: Take some time for personal prayer, praying for others, for the world, for the nation, for the church, for your personal needs.

Listen or sing with Hallelujah! What a Saviour! (search on YouTube)

Take a few moments for silent meditation on what Jesus did for you.

1) O my people, O my Church, what have I done to you, or in what have I offended you? I led you forth from the land of Egypt and delivered you by the waters of baptism, but you have prepared a cross for your Savior.

Pray: Holy God, holy and mighty, holy and immortal One, have mercy upon us.

Sing with or just listen to To a Maid Engaged to Joseph (search on YouTube)

2) I led you through the desert forty years and fed you with manna; I brought you through times of persecution and of renewal and gave you my body, the bread of heaven; but you have prepared a cross for your Savior.

Pray: Lord have mercy upon us.

3) I made you branches of my vineyard and gave you the water of salvation, but when I was thirsty you gave me vinegar and gall and pierced with a spear the side of your Savior.

Pray: Lord have mercy upon us.

4) I went before you in a pillar of cloud, but you have led me to the judgment hall of Pilate. I brought you to a land of freedom and prosperity, but you have scourged, mocked, and beaten me.

Pray: Lord have mercy upon us.

5) I gave you a royal scepter, and bestowed the keys to the kingdom, but you have given me a crown of thorns. I raised you on high with great power, but you have hanged me on the cross.

Pray: Lord have mercy upon us.

6) My peace I gave, which the world cannot give, and washed your feet as a servant, but you draw the sword to strike in my name and seek high places in my kingdom.

Pray: Lord have mercy upon us.

7) I accepted the cup of suffering and death for your sakes, but you scatter and deny and abandon me. I sent the Spirit of truth to lead you, but you close your hearts to guidance.

Pray: Lord have mercy upon us.

8) I called you to go and bring forth fruit, but you cast lots for my clothing. I prayed that you all may be one, but you continue to quarrel and divide.

Pray: Lord have mercy upon us.

9) I grafted you into the tree of my chosen people Israel, but you turned on them with persecution and mass murder. I made you joint heirs with them of my covenants, but you made them scapegoats for your own guilt.

Pray: Lord have mercy upon us.

10) I came to you as the least of your brothers and sisters. I was hungry but you gave me no food, thirsty but you gave me no drink. I was a stranger but you did not welcome me, naked but you did not clothe me, sick and in prison but you did not visit me.

Pray: Holy God, holy and mighty, holy and immortal One, have mercy upon us.

Take a moment to meditate on these words.

Say the Lord’s Prayer in your own way or repeat the words below:

Our Father, which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name; Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven: Give us this day our daily bread; And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us; And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from evil: