Good Friday

Good Friday   

April 3, 2015, 7pm

Rector: The Rev. Catherine D. Hicks

(BCP—Book of Common Prayer, H-Hymnal 1982; S Numbers are the service music found in the front of The Hymnal 1982; WLP-Wonder, Love and Praise)

(LEVAS-Lift Every Voice and Sing II) 

In the name of Christ, we welcome you to this Church. May those who sorrow find comfort; the weary, rest; the unhappy, joy; the troubled, peace; the stranger, friends; and to all the sense of God’s Presence in this holy place.

                                                               The service begins in silence

Entrance – in Silence

                              Our service begins on page 276 of the Book of Common Prayer

The Liturgy of the Word 

Opening Acclamation                                                                                                                          

First Reading                                           Isaiah 52:13-53:12

Psalm                                                          Psalm 22                                                                          BCP 610

Second Reading                                      Hebrews 10:16-25  

Gospel                                                        John 18:1-19:42                                                        

The Sermon                                                                                                 The Rev. Catherine D. Hicks 

Hymn                                                         O sacred head, sore wounded                                       H 168  

The Solemn Collects                                                                                          BCP 277

The Entrance of the Cross (Silence)                                                                       

The Veneration of the Cross

Anthem 1                                                                                                                                                 BCP 281

Hymn                                                        When I survey the wonderous cross                          H 474 

Anthem 2                                                                                                                                                 BCP 281 

 Hymn                                                        Beneath the cross of Jesus                                              H 498  

Anthem 3                                                                                                                                                 BCP 282 

 Hymn                                                        Jesus,  Keep me near the cross                             LEVAS 29 

Music Meditation

Hymn                                                         O love, how deep                                                               H 448

The Lord’s Prayer                                                                                                                              BCP 364  

Concluding Prayer                                                                                                                             BCP 282

All depart in silence

 

Announcements 

Welcome to St. Peter’s! Our hope is that you will find God’s love present with you in this place and that you will return here often.

Good Friday

This service continues our worship through the Triduum, the last three days of Holy Week. This service begins and ends in silence. Tonight we continue the worship that we began last night at the Maundy Thursday service. Since the fourth century, Christians have commemorated the crucifixion of our Lord and Savior on this day. Our liturgy tonight consists of The Liturgy of the Word, The Solemn Collects, and the Veneration of the Cross.

During the Musical Meditation please feel free to come forward and pray at the altar rail. You may take a taper from the candle box in front of the altar and offer a prayer as you place your candle in the container at the foot of the cross.

Thanks be to God for the beautifully crafted cross used in our service tonight, made and given for the glory of God by Helmut Linne von Berg. Thanksgivings to every member of the choir, all of whom have worked so hard to provide meaningful Holy Week music.

The Good Friday Offering

Since 1922, Episcopalians have supported the ministries of the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East through the Good Friday Offering. Through the work of the Episcopal dioceses in the Middle East, Christians maintain a peacemaking and stabilizing presence in the region, serving their neighbors regardless of faith background. The offering plates are at the back of the church by the doors. Make your checks to St Peter’s with Good Friday Offering in the memo line.

Coming up…

Sunday, April 5, 6:30am – PORT ROYAL SUNRISE SERVICE Home of Alexander Long IV

Sunday, April 5, 10:45AM – The lighting of the Paschal fire in front of the church to carry the light of our Risen Lord and Savior into the church.

Sunday, April 5, 11:00AM

Our 11AM Worship Service is the principal celebration of the church year.

Please plan to attend and celebrate our Lord’s glorious resurrection.

 

St. Peter’s Episcopal Church

823 Water Street PO Box 399, Port Royal, VA 22535

Website: www.churchsp.org Parish Office: (804) 742-5908

The Vestry

Roger Key, Senior Warden – (804)-241-5395

Johnny Davis, Junior Warden – (804) 742-5654

Laura Carey, Becky Fisher, Elizabeth Heimbach, Fred Pannell 

Clarence Kunstmann, Treasurer & Elizabeth Heimbach Registrar

Brad Volland – Music Director & Organist

The Rev. Catherine D. Hicks, Priest- in- Charge

(540) 809-7489, (540) 898-1586, stpetersrev@gmail.com

Christ Centered, Biblically Based, Spirit Filled, Caring

Prayer List 

Tucker Fisher, Jim Anderson, Dutchy and Dave Fannon, Virginia and Perry Bowen, Linda Upshaw, Crystal and Fred Pannell, Boyd and Barbara Wisdom, Myrtle Samuels, Peggy Roberts, John and Toni Fabisy, Brad Volland, Vivian McDonald, and we pray for the Gideons..

Cindy Syndergaard (friend of Susan Tilt), Brittany, Greg and Caroline and expected baby Merkl (family of Jim Anderson), Linda Dodson, Brenda Brent (friend of Becky Fisher), Bernadine Nastasee (mother of Toni Faibisy), Mark Witt, Carol Whitcomb, (aunt of Becky Fisher), Lauri McGuire (sister of Charles McGuire), Mark Mallin (brother of Barbara Wisdom), Martie Sothoron Donavan, Beth Elkins (family and friend of the Segars) Towanda Simmons (daughter of Gladys Fortune), Grayson Kirby, Rhonda Hicks (friend and family of the Davis family), Mark Dobronski (friend of the Wicks), Mohan Machuga (grandson of Millie Muhly), Bill Upshaw, (family of Linda Upshaw), Leroy Fisher (grandfather of Chris Fisher), Susan Onderdonk, Bobbye Canaday, Dick Delbridge(friends of the Hicks), Betty Lontz, (friend of Brad Volland), Gloria Jewell, Charles and Yvonne Johnson (friends of the Pannell, Laura Carey), Peter Sorensen, Chuck Beckman, Carolyn & Elizabeth Nelson, Jan and Jeff Ward (friends of the Newmans), Carrie Griffith (mother of Marilyn Newman), Butch and Carolyn Delhagen, Bob and Diane Creel(relatives of the Newmans), David Watson (uncle of Ruth TenHoven), Bernie and Doyle (friends of Ruth TenHoven), Russell Smith, Daniel Smith (brothers of Susan Linne von Berg), Eudora Heath, Albert Barnett, Morris Samuels, Patricia Edwards (family of Andrea Pogue) and PCRJ prisoners.

Serving in the Armed Forces

 Gordon Devine                           Christopher Feliciano                               Jeremy Stoddard

 David Locklerr                            Daniel Vanpike                                               Joseph  George 

 Christopher R. DeHart            Steven Lee                                                          Jeff Woodard 

 Greg Merkl                                             

 

 

 

Good Friday
 April 3, 2015

7pm

 

 

  

ST. Peter’s Episcopal Church

Port Royal, VA