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All: Amen.
Common Worship: Times and Seasons, and Common Worship: Daily Prayer, material from which is included and adapted
in this service, is copyright The Archbishops Council 2006.
Liturgical format by anotheranglicanblog.com
The service ends here without the blessing, and the altar party leaves in silence.
Welcome to our Good Friday Liturgy. Today we come together to hear the Word of God, to meditate on
the Passion according to St John, to venerate the Cross, and to receive Our Lord Jesus in the Sacrament of
the Eucharist. Silence is a significant part of the observance of Good Friday, and silence at the points
ndicated is integral to the service.
It is a widespread custom for there not to be a celebration of the Mass on Good Friday but for the Blessed
Sacrament reserved at the Maundy Thursday Mass to be given in communion during this service.
The altar remains stripped of all decoration. The church continues bare and empty through the following
day, which is a day without a liturgy: there can be no adequate way of recalling the being dead of the Son
of God, other than silence and desolation. But within the silence there grows a sense of peace and
completion, and then rising excitement as the Easter Vigil draws near.
lmighty Father,
look with mercy on this your family
for which our Lord Jesus Christ was content to be betrayed
and given up into the hands of wicked men
and to suffer death upon the cross;
who is alive and glorified
with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
All: Amen.
We sit for the Liturgy of the Word. This part of the service includes two readings, a psalm and the
reading of the Passion according to St John.
The response to the psalm is