The Opening Sentences prayers led by Michelle Mayes Leader Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. People Amen. Leader Blessed be the name of the Lord our God, People who redeems us from sin and death. Leader For us and for our salvation, Christ became obedient unto death, even death on a cross. People Blessed be the name of the Lord.
Musical Refrain “Within Our Darkest Night”
Used by permission under OneLicense.net #A-704768. The First Reading read by Susie Grifth The Third Reading read by Elizabeth Moriarty To Bless the Space Between Us by John O'Donohue Descending Theology: The Garden by Mary Karr This is the time to be slow, We know he was a man because, once doomed, Lie low to the wall he begged for reprieve. See him Until the bitter weather passes. grieving on his rock under olive trees, his companions asleep on the hard ground around him Try, as best you can, not to let wrapped in old hides. The wire brush of doubt Not one stayed awake as he'd asked. Scrape from your heart That went through him like a sword. All sense of yourself He wished with all his being to stay but gave up And your hesitant light. bargaining at the sky. He knew it was all mercy anyhow, unearned as breath. The Father couldn't intervene, If you remain generous, though that gaze was never Time will come good; not rapt, a mantle around him. This And you will fnd your feet was our doing, our death. Again on fresh pastures of promise, The dark prince had poured the vial of poison Where the air will be kind into the betrayer's ear, And blushed with beginning. and it was done. Around the oasis where Jesus wept, the cracked earth radiated out for miles. In the green center, Jesus prayed for the pardon
Musical Refrain of Judas, who was approaching with soldiers, glancing up -- as Christ was -- into The frst candle is extinguished. the punctured sky till his neck bones ached. Here is his tear-riven face come to press a kiss on his brother. The Second Reading read by Elizabeth Vann Matthew 26:45-50 Then he came to the disciples and said to them, “Are you Musical Refrain still sleeping and taking your rest? See, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. Get up, let us be going. See, my betrayer is at hand.” While The third candle is extinguished. he was still speaking, Judas, one of the twelve, arrived; with him was a large crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and the elders of the people. Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying, “The one I will kiss is the man; arrest him.” At once he came up to Jesus and said, “Greetings, Rabbi!” and kissed him. Jesus said to him, “Friend, do what you are here to do.” Then they came and laid hands on Jesus and arrested him.
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The second candle is extinguished.
• 2 • The Fourth Reading read by Jacqueline WayneGuite Let not the oppressed turn away ashamed;* Psalm 74 let the poor and needy praise your name. O God, why have you utterly cast us of?* Arise, O God, maintain your cause;* why is your wrath so hot remember how fools revile you all day long. against the sheep of your pasture? Forget not the clamour of your adversaries,* Remember your congregation the unending tumult of those who rise up against you. that you purchased long ago,* the tribe you redeemed to be your inheritance,
and Mount Zion where you dwell. Musical Refrain Turn your steps towards the endless ruins;* the enemy has laid waste everything in your sanctuary. The fourth candle is extinguished. Your adversaries roared in your holy place;* they set up their banners as tokens of victory. The Fifh Reading read by Andrew Rutledge They were like men coming up Matthew 27:27-31 with axes to a grove of trees;* Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the gov- they broke down all your carved work ernor’s headquarters,and they gathered the whole cohort with hatchets and hammers. around him. They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on They set fre to your holy place;* him, and after twisting some thorns into a crown, they put they defled the dwelling-place of your name it on his head. They put a reed in his right hand and knelt and razed it to the ground. before him and mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” They spat on him, and took the reed and struck him They said to themselves, ‘Let us destroy them altogether.’* on the head. After mocking him, they stripped him of the They burned down all the meeting-places robe and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him of God in the land. away to crucify him. There are no signs for us to see; there is no prophet left;* there is not one among us who knows how long. Musical Refrain How long, O God, will the adversary scof?* will the enemy blaspheme your name for ever? Why do you draw back your hand?* The ffth candle is extinguished. why is your right hand hidden in your bosom? Yet God is my king from ancient times,* The Sixth Reading read by Bryan Matias victorious in the midst of the earth. from Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore You divided the sea by your might* It is the pang of separation that spreads throughout the and shattered the heads of the dragons upon the waters; world and gives birth to shapes innumerable in the infnite You crushed the heads of Leviathan* sky. and gave him to the people of the desert for food. It is this sorrow of separation that gazes in silence all night You split open spring and torrent;* from star to star and becomes lyric among rustling leaves you dried up ever-fowing rivers. in rainy darkness of July. Yours is the day, yours also the night;* It is this overspreading pain that deepens into loves and you established the moon and the sun. desires, into suferings and joys in human homes; and this You fxed all the boundaries of the earth;* it is that ever melts and fows in songs through my poet's you made both summer and winter. heart. Remember, O Lord, how the enemy scofed,* how a foolish people despised your name.
Do not hand over the life of your dove to wild beasts;* Musical Refrain never forget the lives of your poor. Look upon your covenant;* The sixth candle is extinguished. the dark places of the earth are haunts of violence.
• 3 • The Seventh Reading read by Sheri Reda The Eighth Reading read by Michelle Mayes Dirge without Music by Edna St. Vincent Millay Philippians 2:5b-11 I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts Christ Jesus, in the hard ground. who, though he was in the form of God, So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind: did not regard equality with God Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. as something to be exploited, Crowned but emptied himself, With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned. taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness. Lovers and thinkers, into the earth with you. And being found in human form, Be one with the dull, the indiscriminate dust. he humbled himself A fragment of what you felt, of what you knew, and became obedient to the point of death A formula, a phrase remains,—but the best is lost. even death on a cross. Therefore God also highly exalted him The answers quick and keen, the honest look, and gave him the name the laughter, the love,— that is above every name, They are gone. They are gone to feed the roses. so that at the name of Jesus Elegant and curled every knee should bend, Is the blossom. Fragrant is the blossom. I know. in heaven and on earth and under the earth, But I do not approve. and every tongue should confess More precious was the light in your eyes that Jesus Christ is Lord, than all the roses in the world. to the glory of God the Father.
Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave After a period of silence, a noise is made, Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; and the candle returns. Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned. Musical Refrain
Musical Refrain The Dismissal Leader May Jesus Christ The seventh candle is removed. who for our sakes became obedient unto death, A period of silence follows. even death on a cross, keep you and strengthen you. All Amen. The people leave in silence.
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