West Point Grey United Church: Vancouver, BC

We acknowledge these lands upon which we worship as the ancestral, cultural,traditional and unceded lands

of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.

West Point Grey United Church: Vancouver, BC

Good Friday

March 25th, 2016

♪Prelude

Gathering and Welcome

Light Christ Candle

Call to Worship

♪Gift of Music: ‘Guide Us, O Thou Great Jehovah’ (arr. A. Hawryluk)

(Quartet: Kyle Harland, Byron Hanson, Stash Bylicki, Nick Sommer)

The Stations Of The Cross

‘Were You There?’

Introduction

Station I: Jesus is condemned to deathMark 15: 1-9, 13-15

Reflection / Silence

♪Were you there when they crucified my Lord,

Were you there when they crucified my Lord?

Oh … sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.

Were you there when they crucified my Lord?

Station II: Jesus takes up the CrossMark 15: 16-20

Reflection / Silence

♪Were you there when they laid the Cross on him ….

Station III:Jesus falls for the first time

Reflection / Silence

♪Were you there when he fell beneath his cross …

Station IV: Jesus meets his mother

Reflection / Silence

♪Were you there when Mary met her son …

Station V: Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus carry the Cross

Luke 23: 26Reflection / Silence

♪Were you there when Simon helped our Lord …

Station VI: Veronica wipes the face of Jesus

Reflection / Silence

♪Were you there when the woman wiped his face …

Station VII: Jesus falls for the second time

Reflection / Silence

♪Were you there when Jesus fell again ….

Station VIII: Jesus consoles the women of Jerusalem

Luke 23: 27-31Reflection / Silence

♪Were you there when the women wept for him …

Station IX: Jesus falls for the third time

Reflection / Silence

♪Were you there when Jesus fell again ….

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Station X: Jesus is stripped of his garmentsMark 15: 22-24Reflection / Silence

♪Were you there when they stripped him of his clothes …

Station XI: Jesus is nailed to the CrossLuke 23: 32-43Reflection / Silence

♪Were you there when they nailed him to the tree …

Station XII: Jesus dies on the CrossLuke 23: 44-46Reflection / Silence - please be seated

♪‘Tenebrae factaesunt’ by Tomas Victoria Quartet

Station XIII: Jesus is taken down from the CrossLuke 23: 50-53Reflection / Silence

♪Were you there when they took his body down …

Station XIV: Jesus is laid in the tombMark 15: 46-47Reflection / Silence

♪Were you there when they laid him in the tomb …

(people are seated)

♪Gift of Music: ‘Creator AlmeSiderum’ by Richard Burchard

Quartet

ExtiguishingThe Christ Candle

(There is no benediction as the service is incomplete until Easter

morning. You may stay for as long as you wish. Please leave in

silence.)