Holy Week 2022 Orders of Service

Scripture Sentence

Call to Worship

Hymn 483: Father of heaven, whose love profound [Tune: Rivaulx]

Prayer

Reading: John 11: 1–6 & 17–42 (NT p101)

Hymn 730: From the falter of breath [Tune: Iona Boat Song]

Sermon: And so it begins

Prayer and Lord’s Prayer

Hymn 399: My song is love unknown [Tune: Love unknown]

Benediction

Scripture Sentence: …sharper than any two-edged sword.

Call to Worship

Hymn 577: Christ be beside me [Tune: Bunessan]

Prayer

Reading: John 2: 13–22 (NT p89)

Hymn 82: Pray that Jerusalem may have [Tune: St Paul]

Sermon: Get out of the way!

Prayer and Lord’s Prayer

Hymn 456: Christ is the world’s true light [Tune: Rinkart]

Benediction

Scripture Sentence

Call to Worship

Hymn 484: Great God, your love has called us here [Tune: Melita]

Prayer

Reading: John 13: 21–32 (NT p105)

Hymn 552: O for a closer walk with God [Tune: Martyrdom]

Sermon: The Upper Room: And it was night

Prayer and Lord’s Prayer

Hymn 223: All praise to thee, my God, this night [Tune: Tallis Canon]

Benediction

Scripture Sentence

Call to Worship

Hymn 377: Go to dark Gethsemane [Tune: Petra]

Prayer

Reading: Luke 22: 39–52 (NT p83)

Sermon: The Power of Darkness

Hymn 376: Twas on that night when doomed to know [Tune: Rockingham]

The Lord’s Supper

Hymn 378: Praise to the Holiest in the height [Tune: Gerontius]

Benediction

Scripture Sentence

Call to Worship

Hymn 393: We turn to God [Tune: Eventide]

Prayer

Reading: John 18: 12–27 (NT 109)

Messiah excerpts – joint choirs:
Behold the Lamb of God
He was despised
Surely he hath borne our griefs
And with his stripes we are healed
All we like sheep have gone astray

Reading: John 18: 28 – 19: 7 (NT p109)

Messiah excerpts – joint choirs:
Behold the Lamb of God
All they that see him laugh him to scorn
He trusted in God
Thy rebuke hath broken his heart
Behold, and see if there be any sorrow
He was cut off out of the land of the living
But thou didst not leave his soul in hell
Lift up your heads, O ye gates

Prayer and Lord’s Prayer

Hymn 382: O Sacred Head! Sore wounded [Tune: Passion Chorale]

Reading: John 19: 16–30 (NT p110)

The service finishes in silence, with no benediction and no music for exit.