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Greenbank Parish Church, Edinburgh
Friday 3rd April 2026
Good Friday
In-Person and Livestreamed Worship, 7.30pm
Worship Leader: Very Rev Dr Derek Browning
Preacher: Rev Ian Gilmour
Director of Music: Alberto Massimo
Organist: Morley Whitehead
Order of Service
(Hymns are from CH4 and readings are from NRSV)
Organ
Call to Worship
Hymn 382: O Sacred Head! sore wounded [Tune: Passion Chorale]
Prayer and The Lord's Prayer
Reading: Isaiah 52:13 – 53:12 (OT p694)
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: Psalm 22: 1–15 (OT pp511–512)
Reflection: Rev Ian Gilmour
Hymn 380: There is a green hill far away [Tune: Horsley]
Messiah excerpts – Joint Choirs:
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
All they that see him laugh him to scorn
He trusted in God
Prayer
Hymn 392: When I survey the wondrous cross [Tune: Rockingham (Communion)]
Reading: John 19: 16–30 (NT pp110–111)
The Service finishes in silence with no benediction and no music for exit