April 18, 2014 Good Friday The Seven Last Words Welcome Visitors! We re glad you are with us today. Please sign in on the YES! Sheet and pass it to the center aisle. An usher will pick it up during the first hymn. Embracing the diversity of God s creation and celebrating our oneness in Christ. Good Shepherd Lutheran Church 611 Randolph Oak Park, Illinois 60302 708-848-4741 churchoffice@goodshepherdlc.org www.goodshepherdlc.org
The Seven Last Words Please stand as you are able ELW=red book hymnal Congregation responses are bold Gathering Prelude Words of Welcome and Call to Worship (All may make the sign of the cross, the sign that is marked at baptism, as the Presiding Minister begins.) The Lord be with you. And also with you. We gather here to worship God. We gather to remember how Jesus suffered and died for us and to thank God for his love and his mercy Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? He grew up before God like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Hymn Ah, Holy Jesus ELW 349 (During the Hymn, the YES! Sheets are collected.) 2
Prayer of Invocation Presiding Minister: Let us pray. Merciful God, as we remember how your son Jesus bore our sins in his body on the cross, how seven times he spoke, seven words of love, we ask you to bless our hearing. Gracious God, as we recall how all three hours His silence cried for mercy on the souls of all, we ask you to help us to understand the mystery of your love, and make us into a people who are ever more worthy of it. Amen. The Seven Last Words The First Word: Luke 23:33-34 Meditation on the First Word Hymn What Wondrous Love Is This (verses 1 & 2) ELW 666 The Second Word: Luke 23:39-43 Meditation on the Second Word Anthem Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs Good Shepherd Choir by Antonio Lotti 3
The Third Word: John 19:25-27 Meditation on the Third Word Hymn When I Survey the Wondrous Cross ELW 803 The Fourth Word: Mark 15:33-34 Meditation on the Fourth Word Hymn O Sacred Head, Now Wounded (verses 1-4) ELW 351 The Fifth Word: John 19:28 Meditation on the Fifth Word Anthem Is It Nothing to You? Good Shepherd Choir by Douglas Wagner 4
The Sixth Word: John 19:29-30 Meditation on the Sixth Word Hymn They Crucified My Lord (verses 1, 3, 5) ELW 350 The Seventh Word: Luke 23:46 Meditation on the Seventh Word Silent Meditation Procession of the Cross Behold the Life-Giving Cross 5
Solemn Reproaches Presiding Minister: O my people, O my church, what have I done to you? How have I offended you? Answer me. I led you out of slavery into freedom, and delivered you through the waters of rebirth, but you have prepared a cross for your Savior. Holy God, holy and mighty, holy and immortal, have mercy on us. O my people, O my church, what more could I have done for you? Answer me. Forty years I led you through the desert, feeding you with manna on the way; I saved you from the time of trial and gave you my body, the bread of heaven, but you have prepared a cross for your Savior. Holy God, holy and mighty, holy and immortal, have mercy on us. O my people, O my church, what more could I have done for you? Answer me. I opened the waters to lead you to the promised land, but you opened my side with a spear; I washed your feet as a sign of my love, but you have prepared a cross for your Savior. Holy God, holy and mighty, holy and immortal, have mercy on us. O my people, O my church, what more could I have done for you? Answer me. I lifted you up to the heights, but you lifted me high on a cross; I raised you from death and prepared for you the tree of life, but you have prepared a cross for your Savior. Holy God, holy and mighty, holy and immortal, have mercy on us. 6
Hymn Were You There ELW 353 Please depart in silence. Liturgy from Spirit Networks, copyright 1999-2006, Rev. Richard J. Fairchild. New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Behold the Life-Giving Cross from SundaysandSeasons.com, used by permission. 7
Upcoming Activities Easter Sunday Activities Easter Sunday Celebration Service 8:00 or 10:30am (Sanctuary) Easter Breakfast served by Good Shepherd youth and adult helpers 8:30-11:00am (Fellowship Hall) Opening Skeeter Pinata 9:15am (Fellowship Hall) Easter Egg Hunt 9:30am (Front Lawn) printed on 100% recycled envirocopy paper Pastor Rev. Kathryn Nolte Council President Robert Hann Council Vice President Barbara Hunt Director Christian Education Deac. Debbie Rank Music Director Jonathan Oblander Communications Jeanne Peppler Office Administrator Vicki May Custodian Tali Melani Sunday Nursery Attendants Elois Gardner & Courtney Roberson 8