Good Friday - 7pm

According to the Church’s ancient tradition, Mass is not celebrated today. The celebration of the Lord’s Passion consists of three parts: the Liturgy of the Word, Adoration of the Cross and Holy Communion with hosts previously consecrated.

We begin in silence. The Procession will enter in silence and proceed to the at the foot of the altar. The priests and deacon will prostrate themselves. All kneel. A period of silent prayer follows.

When the priests rise, all rise.

Opening Prayer

(please sit after the opening prayer)

Liturgy of the Word

1st Reading – Isaiah 52:13-53:12

See, my servant shall prosper, he shall be raised high and greatly exalted.
Even as many were amazed at him — so marred was his look beyond human semblance and his appearance beyond that of the sons of man — so shall he startle many nations, because of him kings shall stand speechless; for those who have not been told shall see, those who have not heard shall ponder it.

Who would believe what we have heard?
To whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
He grew up like a sapling before him, like a shoot from the parched earth; there was in him no stately bearing to make us look at him, nor appearance that would attract us to him.
He was spurned and avoided by people, a man of suffering, accustomed to infirmity, one of those from whom people hide their faces, spurned, and we held him in no esteem.

Yet it was our infirmities that he bore, our sufferings that he endured, while we thought of him as stricken, as one smitten by God and afflicted.
But he was pierced for our offenses, crushed for our sins; upon him was the chastisement that makes us whole, by his stripes we were healed.
We had all gone astray like sheep, each following his own way; but the LORD laid upon him the guilt of us all.

Though he was harshly treated, he submitted and opened not his mouth; like a lamb led to the slaughter or a sheep before the shearers, he was silent and opened not his mouth.
Oppressed and condemned, he was taken away, and who would have thought any more of his destiny?
When he was cut off from the land of the living, and smitten for the sin of his people, a grave was assigned him among the wicked and a burial place with evildoers, though he had done no wrong nor spoken any falsehood.
But the LORD was pleased to crush him in infirmity.

If he gives his life as an offering for sin, he shall see his descendants in a long life, and the will of the LORD shall be accomplished through him.

Because of his affliction, he shall see the light in fullness of days; through his suffering, my servant shall justify many, and their guilt he shall bear.
Therefore I will give him his portion among the great, and he shall divide the spoils with the mighty, because he surrendered himself to death and was counted among the wicked; and he shall take away the sins of many, and win pardon for their offenses.

The Word of the Lord.

ALL: Thanks be to God.

Responsorial Psalm – Psalm 31

R. Father, I put my life in your hands.

In you, O LORD, I take refuge; let me never be put to shame.
Into your hands I commend my spirit; you will redeem me, faithful God.
R. Father, I put my life in your hands.

For all my foes reproach me, neighbors laugh and friends stand off.
I am forgotten like the dead unremembered; I am like a dish cast down.
R. Father, I put my life in your hands.

But my trust is in you, O LORD; I say, “You are my God.”
In your hands I place my future; from the clutch of foes you rescue me.
R. Father, I put my life in your hands.

Let your face shine upon your servant; O save me in your kindness.
Be stouthearted, and come, take courage, all you who now hope in the LORD.
R. Father, I put my life in your hands.

2nd Reading – Hebrews 4:14-16; 5:7-9

Brothers and sisters:
Since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession.
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has similarly been tested in every way, yet without sin.
So let us confidently approach the throne of grace to receive mercy and to find grace for timely help.

In the days when Christ was in the flesh, he offered prayers and supplications with loud cries and tears to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence.
Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered; and when he was made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him.

The Word of the Lord.

ALL: Thanks be to God.

Gospel Acclamation

Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ,
King of endless glory!

(cantor) Christ became obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Because of this, God greatly exalted him and bestowed on him the name which is above every name.

Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ,
King of endless glory!

Gospel – John 18:1-19:42

Jesus went out with his disciples across the Kidron valley to where there was a garden, into which he and his disciples entered.
Judas his betrayer also knew the place, because Jesus had often met there with his disciples.
So Judas got a band of soldiers and guards from the chief priests and the Pharisees and went there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.
Jesus, knowing everything that was going to happen to him, went out and said to them, “Whom are you looking for?”
They answered him, “Jesus the Nazorean.”
He said to them, “I AM.”
Judas his betrayer was also with them.
When he said to them, “I AM,” they turned away and fell to the ground.
So he again asked them, “Whom are you looking for?”
They said, “Jesus the Nazorean.”
Jesus answered, “I told you that I AM. So if you are looking for me, let these men go.”
This was to fulfill what he had said, “I have not lost any of those you gave me.”
Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it, struck the high priest’s slave, and cut off his right ear.
The slave’s name was Malchus.
Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword into its scabbard. Shall I not drink the cup that the Father gave me?”

So the band of soldiers, the tribune, and the Jewish guards seized Jesus, bound him, and brought him to Annas first.
He was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.
It was Caiaphas who had counseled the Jews that it was better that one man should die rather than the people.

Simon Peter and another disciple followed Jesus.
Now the other disciple was known to the high priest,  and he entered the courtyard of the high priest with Jesus.
But Peter stood at the gate outside.
So the other disciple, the acquaintance of the high priest, went out and spoke to the gatekeeper and brought Peter in.
Then the maid who was the gatekeeper said to Peter, “You are not one of this man’s disciples, are you?”
He said, “I am not.”
Now the slaves and the guards were standing around a charcoal fire that they had made, because it was cold, and were warming themselves.
Peter was also standing there keeping warm.

The high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about his doctrine.
Jesus answered him, “I have spoken publicly to the world. I have always taught in a synagogue or in the temple area where all the Jews gather, and in secret, I have said nothing. Why ask me?
Ask those who heard me what I said to them. They know what I said.”
When he had said this, one of the temple guards standing there struck Jesus and said, “Is this the way you answer the high priest?”
Jesus answered him, “If I have spoken wrongly, testify to the wrong; but if I have spoken rightly, why do you strike me?”
Then Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas the high priest.

Now Simon Peter was standing there keeping warm.
And they said to him, “You are not one of his disciples, are you?”
He denied it and said, “I am not.”
One of the slaves of the high priest, a relative of the one whose ear Peter had cut off, said, “Didn’t I see you in the garden with him?”
Again Peter denied it.
And immediately the cock crowed.

Then they brought Jesus from Caiaphas to the praetorium.
It was morning.
And they themselves did not enter the praetorium, in order not to be defiled so that they could eat the Passover.
So Pilate came out to them and said, “What charge do you bring against this man?”
They answered and said to him, “If he were not a criminal, we would not have handed him over to you.”
At this, Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law.”
The Jews answered him, “We do not have the right to execute anyone,” in order that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled that he said indicating the kind of death he would die.
So Pilate went back into the praetorium and summoned Jesus and said to him, “Are you the King of the Jews?”
Jesus answered, “Do you say this on your own or have others told you about me?”
Pilate answered, “I am not a Jew, am I?
Your own nation and the chief priests handed you over to me. What have you done?”
Jesus answered, “My kingdom does not belong to this world. If my kingdom did belong to this world, my attendants would be fighting to keep me from being handed over to the Jews. But as it is, my kingdom is not here.”
So Pilate said to him, “Then you are a king?”
Jesus answered, “You say I am a king.
For this I was born and for this I came into the world,  to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.”
Pilate said to him, “What is truth?”

When he had said this, he again went out to the Jews and said to them, “I find no guilt in him. But you have a custom that I release one prisoner to you at Passover. Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”
They cried out again, “Not this one but Barabbas!”
Now Barabbas was a revolutionary.

Then Pilate took Jesus and had him scourged.
And the soldiers wove a crown out of thorns and placed it on his head, and clothed him in a purple cloak, and they came to him and said, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
And they struck him repeatedly.
Once more Pilate went out and said to them, “Look, I am bringing him out to you, so that you may know that I find no guilt in him.”
So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple cloak.
And he said to them, “Behold, the man!”
When the chief priests and the guards saw him they cried out, “Crucify him, crucify him!”

Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and crucify him. I find no guilt in him.”
The Jews answered,  “We have a law, and according to that law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.”
Now when Pilate heard this statement, he became even more afraid, and went back into the praetorium and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?”
Jesus did not answer him.
So Pilate said to him, “Do you not speak to me? Do you not know that I have power to release you and I have power to crucify you?”
Jesus answered him, “You would have no power over me if it had not been given to you from above.
For this reason, the one who handed me over to you has the greater sin.”
Consequently, Pilate tried to release him; but the Jews cried out, “If you release him, you are not a Friend of Caesar. Everyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar.”

When Pilate heard these words he brought Jesus out and seated him on the judge’s bench in the place called Stone Pavement, in Hebrew, Gabbatha.
It was preparation day for Passover, and it was about noon.
And he said to the Jews, “Behold, your king!”
They cried out, “Take him away, take him away! Crucify him!”
Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your king?”
The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar.”
Then he handed him over to them to be crucified.

So they took Jesus, and, carrying the cross himself,  he went out to what is called the Place of the Skull, in Hebrew, Golgotha.
There they crucified him, and with him two others,  one on either side, with Jesus in the middle.
Pilate also had an inscription written and put on the cross.
It read, “Jesus the Nazorean, the King of the Jews.”
Now many of the Jews read this inscription, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city;  and it was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.
So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write ‘The King of the Jews,’ but that he said, ‘I am the King of the Jews’.”
Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”

When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and divided them into four shares, a share for each soldier.
They also took his tunic, but the tunic was seamless,  woven in one piece from the top down.
So they said to one another, “Let’s not tear it, but cast lots for it to see whose it will be,” in order that the passage of Scripture might be fulfilled that says: They divided my garments among them, and for my vesture they cast lots.
This is what the soldiers did.
Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala.
When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there whom he loved he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son.”
Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother.”
And from that hour the disciple took her into his home.

After this, aware that everything was now finished, in order that the Scripture might be fulfilled, Jesus said, “I thirst.”
There was a vessel filled with common wine.
So they put a sponge soaked in wine on a sprig of hyssop and put it up to his mouth.
When Jesus had taken the wine, he said, “It is finished.”
And bowing his head, he handed over the spirit.

        Here all kneel and pause for a short time.

Now since it was preparation day, in order that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the sabbath, for the sabbath day of that week was a solemn one, the Jews asked Pilate that their legs be broken and that they be taken down.
So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and then of the other one who was crucified with Jesus.
But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs, but one soldier thrust his lance into his side, and immediately blood and water flowed out.
An eyewitness has testified, and his testimony is true; he knows that he is speaking the truth, so that you also may come to believe.
For this happened so that the Scripture passage might be fulfilled: Not a bone of it will be broken.
And again another passage says: They will look upon him whom they have pierced.

After this, Joseph of Arimathea, secretly a disciple of Jesus for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate if he could remove the body of Jesus.
And Pilate permitted it.
So he came and took his body.
Nicodemus, the one who had first come to him at night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes weighing about one hundred pounds.
They took the body of Jesus and bound it with burial cloths along with the spices, according to the Jewish burial custom.
Now in the place where he had been crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had yet been buried.
So they laid Jesus there because of the Jewish preparation day; for the tomb was close by.

The Gospel of the Lord.

All: Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

Solemn Intercessions

The prayers of the faithful conclude the Liturgy of the Word. Eleven prayer intentions are read in the following pattern:

- The deacon reads the prayer petition.
- A short period of silence follows, allowing for internal prayer for that petition.
- The priest will speak the conclusion to that intention.
- The congregation responds “Amen”.

Veneration of the Holy Cross

The priests and deacon will carry the cross to its resting place for Veneration. Three times they will stop and the cantor will intone:

Behold, behold the wood of the cross,
On which hung our salvation.

ALL: O come, let us adore.

After each time singing, all will kneel for a moment of private reflection.

All will be invited to come forward to venerate the Cross with a bow or genuflection. Please follow the directions of the acolytes .

Music for the Veneration of the Cross

In the Cross of Christ

In the cross of Christ, our glory, Christ, our story, Christ our song.

1. Let your mind and heart
be one with Christ
who emptied himself,
for us became a slave,
accepting death up on the cross.

2. He was pierced for our iniquities,
and crushed for our sins.
He died to make us whole,
and by his suff’ring we are healed.

3. Come, behold the cross of sacrifice
on which Jesus died—-
the Savior of us all—-
to save a lost and broken world.

4. May we never boast of anything
save the cross of Christ,
by which we die to sin
and rise to life in Jesus Christ.

5. Now in Christ, we who were aliens
have been reconciled;
as members of God’s house,
we live as God’s own dwelling place.

Veneration of the Cross - O Sacred Head Surrounded

1. O Sacred Head, surrounded
By crown of piercing thorn!
O bleeding Head, so wounded,
Reviled and put to scorn!
The pow’r of death comes o’er you,
the glow of life decays,
Yet angel hosts adore you
And tremble as they gaze.

2. I see your strength and vigor
All fading in the strife,
And death with cruel rigor,
Bereaving you of life;
O agony and dying!
O love to sinners free!
Jesus, all grace supplying,
O turn your face on me.

3. In this, your bitter passion,
Good Shepherd, think of me
With your most sweet compassion,
Unworthy though I be;
Beneath your cross abiding
Forever would I rest,
In your dear love confiding,
And with your presence blest.

Veneration of the Cross - Behold the Wood of the Cross

Behold, behold the wood of the cross
On which is hung our salvation
O come, let us adore


1. Unless a grain of wheat shall fall
Upon the ground and die
It shall remain but a single grain
And not give life

2. And when my hour of glory comes
As all was meant to be
You will see me lifted up
Upon a tree

3. For surely he has borne our tears,
Is wounded by our sin
and yet he opens not his mouth
that we might live.

Veneration of the Cross - At the Name of Jesus -

  1. At the name of Jesus
    Every knee shall bow,
    Every tongue confess him
    King of Glory now.
    ’Tis the Father’s pleasure
    We should call him Lord,
    Who from the beginning
    Was the mighty Word.

  2. Humbled for a season
    To receive a name
    From the lips of sinners
    Unto which he came.
    Faithfully he bore it,
    Spotless to the last;
    Brought it back victorious
    When through death he passed.

  3. Bore it up triumphant
    With its human light,
    Through all ranks of creatures
    To the central height,
    To the throne of Godhead,
    To the Father’s breast,
    Filled it with the glory
    Of that perfect rest.

  4. In your hearts enthrone him,
    There let him subdue
    All that is not holy,
    All that is not true.
    Crown him as your Captain
    In temptation’s hour;
    Let his will enfold you
    In its light and pow’r.

  5. Jesus, Lord and Savior,
    Shall return again,
    With His Father’s glory
    O’er the earth to reign.
    For all wreaths of Empire
    Meet upon his brow;
    Let our hearts confess him
    King of Glory now.

Communion Service

Offertory Hymn - How Deep the Father’s Love

How deep the Father’s love for us,
How vast beyond all measure,
That He should give His only Son
To make a wretch His treasure.
How great the pain of searing loss –
The Father turns His face away,
Bring many sons to glory.

Behold the man upon a cross,
My sin upon His shoulders;
Ashamed, I hear my mocking voice
Call out among the scoffers.
It was my sin that held Him there
Until it was accomplished;
His dying breath has brought me life –
I know that it is finished.

I will not boast in anything,
No gifts, no power, no wisdom;
But I will boast in Jesus Christ,
His death and resurrection.
Why should I gain from His reward?
I cannot give an answer;
But this I know with all my heart –
His wounds have paid my ransom.

Holy Communion

The ciborium with the Blessed Sacrament that was consecrated on Holy Thursday is reverently carried from the place of reposition to the table.

While Holy Communion is reserved for Catholics, persons of all faiths wishing to receive a blessing may participate in the communion procession. Place your arms across your chest to indicate you would like to receive this blessing.

Communion Hymn - Draw Near

Draw near, draw near!
Take the Body of your Lord.
Draw near, draw near!
Drink the Blood for you outpoured.

  1. Draw near and take
    the Body of the Lord,
    and drink with faith
    the Blood for you outpoured.
    Saved by Christ’s Body and his holy Blood,
    with souls refreshed
    we give our thanks to God.

  2. Christ our Redeemer,
    God’s eternal Son,
    has by his cross and blood
    the vict’ry won.
    He spent his life for greatest
    and for least.
    Praise Christ the Paschal Victim, Christ the Priest.

  3. Let us approach with
    faithful hearts sincere
    and claim the promise
    of salvation here.
    Christ rules our hearts,
    and all his saints defends;
    he gives believers life that never ends.

  4. With heav’nly bread
    Christ makes the hungry whole;
    his living water fills the thirsting soul.
    Alpha-Omega, unto whom shall bow all nations of the earth,
    be with us now.

Communion Hymn - Your Only Son

Your only Son, No sin to hide;
But you have sent him from your side
to walk upon this guilty sod
And to become to Lamb of God.

Your gift of love they crucified,
they laughed and scorned him as he died,
the humble King, they named a fraud,
and sacrificed the Lamb of God.

O Lamb of God,
Sweet Lamb of God;
I love the holy Lamb of God.
Oh wash me in His precious blood,
My Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God.

I was so lost, I should have died
But you have brought me to your side,
To be led by Your staff and rod
And to be called a lamb of God.


Prayer after Communion

Prayer over the People

The ministers depart in solemn silence. After a period of personal meditation, the assembly also departs in silence.

Depart in Silence
Please refrain from conversation until you are outside of the Worship Center


Previous
Previous

Easter Vigil

Next
Next

Good Friday - Noon to 3pm