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Tuesday 4 April 2023

Stations of the Cross Family Service at St. Lawrence - 10 AM Good Friday 7 April 2023

Holy Week: Family Service for Good Friday 10 AM 

Opening hymn: How deep the Father's love for us (sheet music) in D or F (capo 1) 

Stations of the Cross:
225 Were you there vs 1 (crucified)
1st station: Jesus is condemned to death  

225 Were you there vs 2 (nailed)
2nd Station: Jesus accepts the cross 

225 Were you there vs 3 (pierced)
3rd Station: Jesus falls the first time 

225 Were you there vs 4 (sun refused)
4th Station: Jesus meets his mother 

225 Were you there vs 5 (laid him) 
5th Station: Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus 

225 Were you there vs 1 (crucified)
6th Station: Veronica wipes Jesus’ face 

225 Were you there vs 2 (nailed)
7th Station: Jesus falls a second time 

225 Were you there vs 3 (pierced)
8th Station: Jesus meets the women of Jerusalem 

225 Were you there vs 4 (sun refused)
9th Station: Jesus falls a third time. 

225 Were you there vs 5 (laid him) 
10th Station: Jesus is stripped of his clothes. 

225 Were you there vs 1 (crucified)
11th Station: Jesus is crucified 225 

Were you there vs 2 (nailed)
12th Station: Jesus dies on the cross 

225 Were you there vs 3 (pierced)
13th Station: Jesus’ body is taken down from the cross 

225 Were you there vs 5 (laid him) 
14th Station: Jesus is laid in the tomb 

optional: 225 Were you there vs 4 (sun refused)

Veneration of the Cross:

756 When I survey the Wondrous Cross
752 My song is love unknown
721 O Lord, my God (How great thou art)
751 Meekness and Majesty
846 Amazing Grace
748 Unless a grain of wheat
872  My God, accept my heart this day
907 Abide with me
218 Deep within

optional: 
249 Stay with Me
965 As the deer
216 By the waters of Babylon

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Opening hymn:  How deep the Father's love for us
How deep the Father's love for us,
How vast beyond all measure
That He should give His only Son
To make a wretch His treasure
How great the pain of searing loss,
The Father turns His face away
As wounds which mar the chosen One,
Bring many sons to glory

Behold the Man upon a cross,
My sin upon His shoulders
Ashamed I hear my mocking voice,
Call out among the scoffers
It was my sin that left Him there
Until it was accomplished
His dying breath has brought me life
I know that it is finished

I will not boast in anything
No gifts, no power, no wisdom
But I will boast in Jesus Christ
His death and resurrection
Why should I gain from His reward?
I cannot give an answer
But this I know with all my heart
His wounds have paid my ransom

Why should I gain from His reward?
I cannot give an answer
But this I know with all my heart
His wounds have paid my ransom


Stations of the Cross:

225 Were you there 
Were you there when they crucified my Lord?
Were you there when they crucified my Lord?
Oh, sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.
Were you there when they crucified my Lord?

Were you there when they nailed him to a tree?
Were you there when they nailed him to a tree?
Oh, sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.
Were you there when they nailed him to a tree?

Were you there when they pierced him in the side?
Were you there when they pierced him in the side?
Oh, sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.
Were you there when they pierced him in the side?

Were you there when the sun refused to shine?
Were you there when the sun refused to shine?
Oh, sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.
Were you there when the sun refused to shine?

Were you there when they laid him in the tomb?
Were you there when they laid him in the tomb?
Oh, sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.
Were you there when they laid him in the tomb?


Veneration of the Cross:

756 When I survey the Wondrous Cross

When I survey the wondrous cross
On which the Prince of glory died,
My richest gain I count but loss,
And pour contempt on all my pride.

Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast,
Save in the death of Christ my God!
All the vain things that charm me most,
I sacrifice them to His blood.

See from His head, His hands, His feet,
Sorrow and love flow mingled down!
Did e’er such love and sorrow meet,
Or thorns compose so rich a crown?

His dying crimson, like a robe,
Spreads o’er His body on the tree;
Then I am dead to all the globe,
And all the globe is dead to me.

Were the whole realm of nature mine,
That were a present far too small;
Love so amazing, so divine,
Demands my soul, my life, my all.


752 My song is love unknown

My song is love unknown,
My Saviour's love to me;
Love to the loveless shown,
That they might lovely be.
O who am I, that for my sake
My Lord should take, frail flesh and die?

He came from His blest throne
Salvation to bestow;
But men made strange, and none
The longed for Christ would know:
But O! my Friend, my Friend indeed,
Who at my need His life did spend.

Sometimes they strew His way,
And His sweet praises sing;
Resounding all the day
Hosannas to their King:
Then “Crucify!” is all their breath,
And for His death they thirst and cry.

Why, what hath my Lord done?
What makes this rage and spite?
He made the lame to run,
He gave the blind their sight,
Sweet injuries! Yet they at these
Themselves displease, and ’gainst Him rise.

They rise and needs will have
My dear Lord made away;
A murderer they saved,
The Prince of life they slay,
Yet cheerful He to suffering goes,
That He His foes from thence might free.

In life, no house, no home
My Lord on earth might have;
In death no friendly tomb
But what a stranger gave.
What may I say? Heav’n was His home;
But mine the tomb wherein He lay.

Here might I stay and sing,
No story so divine;
Never was love, dear King!
Never was grief like Thine.
This is my Friend, in Whose sweet praise
I all my days could gladly spend.

721 O Lord, my God (How great thou art)

O Lord my God, When I in awesome wonder,
Consider all the worlds Thy Hands have made;
I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder,
Thy power throughout the universe displayed.

Refrain:
Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,
How great Thou art, How great Thou art.
Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,
How great Thou art, How great Thou art!

When through the woods, and forest glades I wander,
And hear the birds sing sweetly in the trees.
When I look down, from lofty mountain grandeur
And see the brook, and feel the gentle breeze.
(refrain)

And when I think, that God, His Son not sparing;
Sent Him to die, I scarce can take it in;
That on the Cross, my burden gladly bearing,
He bled and died to take away my sin.
(refrain)

When Christ shall come, with shout of acclamation,
And take me home, what joy shall fill my heart.
Then I shall bow, in humble adoration,
And then proclaim: "My God, how great Thou art!" 
(refrain)

751 Meekness and Majesty

Meekness and majesty, manhood and deity,
in perfect harmony, the man who is God:
Lord of eternity dwells in humanity,
kneels in humility and washes our feet.

Refrain:
Oh what a mystery, meekness and majesty:
bow down and worship, for this is your God,
this is your God!

Father’s pure radiance, perfect in innocence,
yet learns obedience to death on a cross:
suffering to give us life, conquering through sacrifice;
and, as they crucify, prays, ‘Father, forgive.’
   
Wisdom unsearchable, God the invisible,
Love indestructible in frailty appears.
Lord of infinity, stooping so tenderly,
lifts our humanity to the heights of His throne

Oh what a mystery, meekness and majesty:
bow down and worship, bow down and worship,
bow down and worship, bow down and worship,
for this is your God, for this is your God,
this is your God!

846 Amazing Grace

Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch like me.
I once was lost but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see.

T'was Grace that taught my heart to fear.
And Grace, my fears relieved.
How precious did that Grace appear
The hour I first believed.

Through many dangers, toils and snares
I have already come;
'Tis Grace that brought me safe thus far
and Grace will lead me home.

The Lord has promised good to me.
His word my hope secures.
He will my shield and portion be,
As long as life endures.


748 Unless a grain of wheat

Refrain:
Unless a grain of wheat shall fall
upon the ground and die
it remains but a single grain with no life.

Verses:
1. If we have died with him, then we shall live with him;
if we hold firm, we shall reign with him. (Refrain)

2. If any one serves me, then they must follow me;
wherever I am, my servants will be. (Refrain)

3. Make your home in me as I make mine in you;
those who remain in me bear much fruit.(Refrain)

4. If you remain in me and my word lives in you;
then you will be my disciples.(Refrain)

5. Those who love me are loved by my Father;
we shall be with them and dwell in them.(Refrain)

6. Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you;
peace which the world cannot give is my gift. (Refrain)

872  My God, accept my heart this day

My God, accept my heart this day,
And make it wholly Thine,
That I from Thee no more may stray,
No more from Thee decline.

Before the cross of Him Who died,
Behold, I prostrate fall;
Let every sin be crucified,
And Christ be all in all.

Anoint me with Thy heavenly grace,
And seal me for Thine own,
That I may see Thy glorious face,
And worship at Thy throne.

Let every thought, and work, and word,
To Thee be ever given;
Then life shall be Thy service, Lord,
And Death the gate of Heaven.

All glory to the Father be,
All glory to the Son,
All glory, Holy Ghost, to thee,
while endless ages run.

907 Abide with me

1. Abide with me; fast falls the eventide;
The darkness deepens; Lord with me abide.
When other helpers fail and comforts flee,
Help of the helpless, O abide with me.

2. Swift to its close ebbs out life’s little day;
earth’s joys grow dim, its glories pass away;
change and decay in all around I see;
O thou who changest not, abide with me.

3. I need thy presence every passing hour;
what but thy grace can foil the tempter’s power?
Who like thyself my guide and stay can be?
Through cloud and sunshine, O abide with me.

4. I fear no foe with thee at hand to bless;
ills have no weight and tears no bitterness.
Where is death’s sting? Where, grave, thy victory?
I triumph still, if thou abide with me.

5. Hold Thou Thy cross before my closing eyes;
Shine through the gloom and point me to the skies.
Heaven’s morning breaks, and earth’s vain shadows flee;
In life, in death, O Lord, abide with me.

218 Deep within

Refrain:
Deep within, I will plant my law,
not on stone, but in your heart.
Follow me; I will bring you back.
You will be my own, and I will be your God.

1. I will give you a new heart, a new spirit within you,
for I will be your strength.

2. Seek my face, and see your God,
for I will be your hope.

3. Return to me, with all your heart,
and I will bring you back.

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