THE PASSION:  MAUNDY THURSDAY, GOOD FRIDAY & HOLY SATURDAY

PRELUDE:  Prelude on “Were You There?” by Barbara Harbach

CALL TO WORSHIP & OPENING PRAYER

SCRIPTURE READING:  MARK 14:12-17

HYMN:  An Upper Room Did Our Lord Prepare [O Waly Waly] (stanzas 1 & 3)

SCRIPTURE READING:  JOHN 13:2c-5, 12-15

REFLECTION

SCRIPTURE READING:  MARK 14:22-25

HYMN:  An Upper Room Did Our Lord Prepare [O Waly Waly] (stanza 2)

THE LORD’S SUPPER

WORDS OF INSTITUTION
PRAYER
RECEPTION
PRAYER

SCRIPTURE READING:  MARK 14:26, 32-36

HYMN:  Go to Dark Gethsemane [Redhead 76] (stanza 1)

REFLECTION

SCRIPTURE READING:  MARK 14:46, 53, 60-65

HYMN: Go to Dark Gethsemane [Redhead 76] (stanza 2)

REFLECTION

SCRIPTURE READING:  JOHN 19:1-3, 16-18a

HYMN:  Go to Dark Gethsemane [Redhead 76] (stanza 3)

REFLECTION

HYMN:  O Sacred Head, Now Wounded [Passion Chorale] (stanzas 1-2)

PRAYER

RESPONSE:  Partita and Choral Variations on “Herzliebster Jesu” by Robert Benson

Chorale I:  Ah, holy Jesus, how hast thou offended that we to judge thee have in hate pretended? By foes derided, by thine own rejected, O most afflicted.

Reflection
Partita I:  Bibinium –Contemplation of the Cross

Chorale II:  Who was the guilty? Who brought this upon thee? Alas, my treason, Jesus, hath undone thee. ‘Twas I, Lord Jesus. I it was denied thee. I crucified thee.

Reflection
Partita II:  Tricinium-Blodd, tears, sweat. Christ forgives the thief 

Chorale III:  Lo, the Good Shepherd for the sheep is offered; the slave hath sinned, and the Son hath suffered; for our atonement while we nothing heeded; God interceded.

Reflection
Partita III:  Christ Commens his Spirit to the Father 

Chorale IV:  For me, kind Jesus, was thine incarnation, they mortal sorrow, and thy life’s oblation; thy death of anguish and thy bitter passion, for my salvation.

Reflection
Partita IV:  The Temple Veil is Rent in Twain

Chorale V:  Therefore, kind Jesus, since I cannot pay thee, I do adore thee, and will ever pray thee; think on thy pity and thy love unswerving, not my deserving.
[Text: Johann Heemann; trans. Robert Bridges][Tune: Johann Crüger]

SCRIPTURE READING:  Mark 15:46

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