Stations of the Cross
Please note that hymns marked with an * indicate when you are invited to stand. Hymns will not be announced during the service.
Prologue: Good Friday Canticle (Plainsong)
Introit: “Out of the Depths” (C. Schalk)
Invocation: PWS&D Insert
Jesus is Condemned to Death
Mark 15:1-5
Sonnet 1
Choir: “Ah, Holy Jesu” (Herzliebster Jesu)
Jesus is Given His Cross
John 19:16b-17
Sonnet II
*Hymn #232 “Alone you once went forth” (Bangor)
Jesus Falls the First Time
Sonnet III
Passion Chorale (organ) (arr. D. Bedard)
Simon of Cyrene Carries the Cross
Luke 23:26
Sonnet V
*Hymn: #211 “Take up your cross” (Hesperus)
Jesus Falls the Second Time
Sonnet VII
Passion Chorale (organ – var. 1) (arr. D. Bedard)
Jesus Meets the Women of Jerusalem
Luke 23:27-31
Sonnet VIII
Choir: “Drop, drop slow tears” (Gibbons/Blackwell)
Jesus Falls the Third Time
Sonnet IX
Passion Chorale (organ – var. II) (arr. D. Bedard)
Crucifixion: Jesus is Nailed to The Cross
Luke 23:33-43
Sonnet XI
*Hymn: #205 “O love, how deep” (verses 1,4, & 6) (Puer Nobis Nascitur)
Jesus Dies on the Cross
Luke 23:44-46
Sonnet XII
Choir: “When I survey the wondrous cross” (African Hymntune)
Jesus’ Body is Taken Down From the Cross
John 19:31-39
Sonnet XIII
Choir: “God so loved the world” (J. Stainer)
Jesus Is Laid in the Tomb
John 19:40-42
Sonnet XIV
Choir: “Were you there” (arr. H. Hopson)
Dismissal
Silent Meditation
(the congregation may depart at will)