Tenebrae: A Service of Shadows for Good Friday
If you have five candles, prepare for this service by arranging them in front of you and lighting them. After each reading, extinguish one candle.
Opening Sentences:
God is light, in whom there is no darkness at all. Jesus Christ is the light of the world. And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and we loved darkness rather than light.
Centering Music: Kyrie
Reading: John 18:1-18
Hymn: My Faith Looks Up to Thee
Reading: John 18:19-40
Hymn: Ah Holy Jesus
Reading: John 19:1-16
Hymn: O Sacred Head, Now Wounded
Reading: John 19:16b-30
Hymn: Were You There
Reading: John 19:31-42
Hymn: Jesus, Remember Me
Prayer:
Merciful God, you gave your Son to suffer the shame of the cross. Save us from hardness of heart, that, seeing him who died for us, we may repent, confess our sin, and receive your overflowing love, in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.