My song is love unknown,
my Saviour's love for me;
love to the loveless shown
that they might lovely be:
but who am I,
that for my sake,
my Lord should take frail flesh
and die?
The evening of Good Friday is the great dramatic pause in
the Easter narrative. The events of the day are over. The angry shouts have
died away. The body has been laid to rest in the tomb. The Passover has begun.
The men and women who stood at the foot of the cross and witnessed the death of
Christ have returned to their homes, uncertain and fearful, none with the
slightest idea of what will happen next, early in the morning on the third day.
In the quiet of the evening of Good Friday 25th
March 2016, we are going to gather at the Church of the Good Shepherd to
reflect on the events of that day and what would happen next. Mike Cain will
take us through the gospel writer Luke's narrative of the final moments leading
up to the death of Christ, the choir of the Emmanuel church family and friends
who sang at Christmas will sing the chorale 'O sacred head surrounded' from
Bach's Matthew Passion, the chorus 'Surely he hath borne our griefs' from
Handel's Messiah, and the hauntingly beautiful and ultimately joyous 'Solus ad victimam" by Kenneth Leighton and we will sing four great
Passiontide hymns together.
Join us on Good Friday at 8:15pm for 8:30pm at the Church of
the Good Shepherd, Bishop Road, BS7 8NA for this quiet, reflective, candlelit
service. Friends, neighbours and colleagues especially welcome. Coffee and hot
cross buns served before the service.
Lord of the cross of shame,
set our cold hearts aflame
with love for you,
our Saviour and our Master,
who on that lonely day
bore all our sins away
and saved us from the Judgment
and disaster.
