THE CATHEDRAL AND METROPOLITICAL CHURCH OF CHRIST, CANTERBURY The Liturgy of Good Friday 2nd April 2021 9.30am Nave Welcome to Canterbury Cathedral for this Service For your safety Please keep social distance at all times Please stay in your seat as much as possible Please use hand sanitiser on the way in and out Please avoid touching your face and touching surfaces Cover Image: Crucifix in Our Lady Martyrdom (‘The Dean’s Chapel’) As part of our commitment to the care of the environment in our world, this Order of Service is printed on unbleached 100% recycled paper Please ensure that mobile phones are switched off. No form of visual or sound recording, or any form of photography, is permitted during Services. Thank you for your co-operation. An induction loop system for the hard of hearing is installed in the Cathedral. Hearing aid users should adjust their aid to T. Large print orders of service are available from the stewards and virgers. Please ask. Some of this material is copyright: © Archbishop’s Council, 2000 © Archbishop’s Council, 2006 Hymns and songs reproduced under CCLI number: 1031280 Produced by the Music & Liturgy Department: [email protected] 01227 865281 www.canterbury-cathedral.org The Gathering Stand as the choir and clergy enter in silence The altar party faces eastwards and keeps silence The Collect The President says Almighty 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 sinners and to suffer death upon the cross; who is alive and glorified with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. Sit The Liturgy of the Word Old Testament Reading Isaiah 52.13 - end of 53 See, my servant shall prosper; he shall be exalted and lifted up, and shall be very high. Just as there were many who were astonished at him – so marred was his appearance, beyond human semblance, and his form beyond that of mortals – so he shall startle many nations; kings shall shut their mouths because of him; for that which had not been told them they shall see, and that which they had not heard they shall contemplate. Who has believed what we have heard? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. 1 He was despised and rejected by others; a man of suffering and acquainted with infirmity; and as one from whom others hide their faces he was despised, and we held him of no account. Surely he has borne our infirmities and carried our diseases; yet we accounted him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the punishment that made us whole, and by his bruises we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have all turned to our own way, and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth. By a perversion of justice he was taken away. Who could have imagined his future? For he was cut off from the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people. They made his grave with the wicked and his tomb with the rich, although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth. Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him with pain. When you make his life an offering for sin, he shall see his offspring, and shall prolong his days; through him the will of the Lord shall prosper. Out of his anguish he shall see light; he shall find satisfaction through his knowledge. The righteous one, my servant, shall make many righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities. Therefore I will allot him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out himself to death, and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors. 2 Hymn O sacred head, sore wounded, 2 In thy most bitter passion Defiled and put to scorn; My heart to share doth cry, O kingly head, surrounded With thee for my salvation With mocking crown of thorn: Upon the Cross to die. What sorrow mars thy grandeur? Ah, keep my heart thus movèd Can death thy bloom deflower? To stand thy Cross beneath, O countenance whose splendour To mourn thee, well-belovèd, The hosts of heaven adore. Yet thank thee for thy death. 3 My days are few, O fail not, With thine immortal power, To hold me that I quail not In death’s most fearful hour: That I may fight befriended, And see in my last strife To me thine arms extended Upon the Cross of life. Words: Paul Gerhardt (1607-76) Tune: J.S. Bach NEH 90 from 14th century Latin hymn from Passion according to St Matthew Tr. R. Bridges (1844-1930) New Testament Reading Hebrews 10.16-25 The Holy Spirit testifies to us, for after saying, ‘This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds’, he also adds, ‘I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.’ Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin. Therefore, my friends, since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain (that is, through his flesh), and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us approach with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast to the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who has promised is faithful. And let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good deeds, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching. 3 Please stand for the Singing of the Passion The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ according to John At that time: Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe, and said: Hail, King of the Jews! And they smote him with their hands. Pilate therefore went forth again, and saith unto them: Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may know that I find no fault in him. Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And Pilate saith unto them: Behold the man! When the chief priests therefore and officers saw him, they cried out, saying: Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them: Take ye him, and crucify him: for I find no fault in him. The Jews answered him: We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God. When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid. And went again into the judgment hall: and saith unto Jesus: Whence art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer. Then saith Pilate unto him: Speakest thou not unto me? Knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to release thee? Jesus answered: Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above. Therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin. And from thenceforth Pilate sought to release him. But the Jews cried out, saying: If thou let this man go, thou art not Caesar’s friend. Whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar. When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment seat, in a place that is called the Pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha. And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour, and he saith unto the Jews: Behold your King! But they cried out: Away with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them: Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered: We have no king but Caesar. Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him away. And he, bearing his cross, went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew, Golgotha: where they crucified him, and two other with him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst. And Pilate wrote a title: and put it on the cross. And the writing was: JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS. This title then read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin.