WELCOME TO WORSHIP | GOOD FRIDAY | april 3, 2026

PRELUDE
Prelude on When I Survey the Wondrous Cross | arr. Eugene Bradford
Chuck Stanley, organ
Lowell Mason, Eugene Bradford | © 2007 Lorenz Publishing Co. | all rights reserved | with permission ONE LICENSE, License #A-726973

WELCOME | Pastor Cathy Johns

* CALL TO WORSHIP | Pastor Doug Johns

We gather on this solemn day to remember the depth of Christ’s love.

We come with quiet hearts to stand at the foot of the cross.

In music, prayer, and reflection we enter the mystery of this holy day.

We remember the love that did not turn away.

Through the beauty of the Requiem by Gabriel Fauré, we reflect on grief, mercy, and peace beyond death.

Even in the shadow of the cross, God’s promise of peace endures.

Come, let us worship with reverence and humility.

We come to remember, to pray, and to trust in the love revealed in Christ.

HYMN

When I Survey the Wondrous Cross | The United Methodist Hymnal No. 298 (verses 1,3,4)

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.

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.

Were the whole realm of nature mine,

that were an offering far too small;

love so amazing, so divine,

demands my soul, my life, my all.

Isaac Watts & Lowell Mason | © words and music: public domain | CCLI License # 487103

REQUIEM – INTROIT ET KYRIE

Requiem aeternam dona eis Domine

- Rest eternal grant them, Lord our God, we pray to thee: -

et lux perpetua luceat eis.

- and light perpetual shine ever upon them. -

Te decent hymnus, Deus in Sion:

- Thou, O God, art worshiped in holy Zion. -

et tibi reddetur votum in Jerusalem

- And your vow will be fulfilled in Jerusalem. -

Exaudi orationem meam,

- Hear us, Lord; hear thy servants’ prayer: -

ad te omnis caro veniet.

- Lord, unto thee all flesh shall come. -

Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison.

- Lord, have mercy; Christ, have mercy. -

SCRIPTURE

Psalm 22: 1-11, 22-24 | New Revised Standard Version, updated edition

1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, from the words of my groaning? 2 O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer; and by night but find no rest. 3 Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel. 4 In you our ancestors trusted; they trusted, and you delivered them. 5 To you they cried and were saved; in you they trusted and were not put to shame. 6 But I am a worm and not human, scorned by others and despised by the people. 7 All who see me mock me; they sneer at me; they shake their heads; 8 “Commit your cause to the Lord; let him deliver—let him rescue the one in whom he delights!” 9 Yet it was you who took me from the womb; you kept me safe on my mother’s breast. 10 On you I was cast from my birth, and since my mother bore me you have been my God. 11 Do not be far from me, for trouble is near, and there is no one to help. ...

22 I will tell of your name to my brothers and sisters; in the midst of the congregation I will praise you: 23 You who fear the Lord, praise him! All you offspring of Jacob, glorify him; stand in awe of him, all you offspring of Israel! 24 For he did not despise or abhor the affliction of the afflicted; he did not hide his face from me but heard when I cried to him.

REQUIEM – OFFERTORY

O Domine Jesus Christe, Rex gloriae

- O Lord Jesus Christ, King of Glory, -

libera animas defuctorum

- liberate the souls of all the faithful departed -

de poenis inferni, et de profundo lacu

- from torment eternal, and from the waters -

de ore leonis, ne absorbeat tartarus

- from out of the lion’s jaw, lest they drown. -

Ne cadant in obscurum.

- O save them from utter darkness. -

Hostias et preces tibi Domine

- Hear our prayer and let our cry come unto thee: -

laudis offerimus tu suscipe pro animabus illis,

- God our Father, bow thine ear: we pray for the departed -

Quarum hodie memoriam facimus.

- O remember them, Lord, we pray. -

Fac eas, Domine, de morte transire ad vitam.

- Grant them, Lord, deliverance from death unto life -

Quam olim Abrahae promisisti et semini ejus. 

- as of old thou hast promised to your fathers, Abraham and his seed. -

REQUIEM – SANCTUS

Sanctus, sanctus Dominus, Deus Sabbaoth,

- Holy, holy, Lord God of Hosts. -

Pleni sunt coeli et terra gloria tua.

- Heaven and earth are full of thy glory. -

Hosanna in excelsis. 

- Hosanna in the highest -

HYMN

O Sacred Head, Now Wounded | The United Methodist Hymnal No. 286 (verses 1,3,4)

O sacred Head, now wounded, with grief and shame weighed down,

now scornfully surrounded with thorns, thine only crown.

how pale thou art with anguish, with sore abuse and scorn!

How does that visage languish which one was bright as morn!

What thou, my Lord, hast suffered was all for sinner’s gain;

mine, mine was the transgression, but thine the deadly pain.

Lo, here I fall, my Savior! ‘Tis I deserve thy place;

look on me with thy favor, vouchsafe to me thy grace.

What language shall I borrow to thank thee, dearest friend,

For this thy dying sorrow, thy pity without end?

O make me thine forever; and should I fainting be,

Lord, let me never, never outlive my love to thee.

Paul Gerhardt, James W. Alexander, Hans L. Hassler | © words and music: public domain | CCLI License # 487103

SCRIPTURE | Pastor Monique McBride

John 19:1-16 | New Revised Standard Version, updated edition

1 Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. 2 And the soldiers wove a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and they dressed him in a purple robe. 3 They kept coming up to him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and striking him on the face. 4 Pilate went out again and said to them, “Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no case against him.” 5 So Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Behold the man!” 6 When the chief priests and the police saw him, they shouted, “Crucify him! Crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and crucify him; I find no case against him.” 7 The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and according to that law he ought to die because he has claimed to be the Son of God.” 8 Now when Pilate heard this, he was more afraid than ever. 9 He entered his headquarters again and asked Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer. 10 Pilate therefore said to him, “Do you refuse to speak to me? Do you not know that I have power to release you and power to crucify you?” 11 Jesus answered him, “You would have no power over me unless it had been given you from above; therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin.” 12 From then on Pilate tried to release him, but the Jews cried out, “If you release this man, you are no friend of Caesar. Everyone who claims to be a king sets himself against Caesar.” 13 When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus outside and sat on the judge’s bench at a place called The Stone Pavement, or in Hebrew Gabbatha. 14 Now it was the day of Preparation for the Passover, and it was about noon. He said to the Jews, “Here is your King!” 15 They cried out, “Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!” Pilate asked them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar.” 16 Then he handed him over to them to be crucified.

REQUIEM – PIE JESU

Pie Jesus Domine, dona eis requiem,

- Merciful Lord Jesus, grant them rest. -

sempiternam requiem.

- Grant them everlasting rest. -

SCRIPTURE

John 19:17-27 | New Revised Standard Version, updated edition

So they took Jesus, 17 and carrying the cross by himself he went out to what is called the Place of the Skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha. 18 There they crucified him and with him two others, one on either side, with Jesus between them. 19 Pilate also had an inscription written and put on the cross. It read, “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.” 20 Many of the Jews read this inscription because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek. 21 Then the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but, ‘This man said, I am King of the Jews.’ ” 22 Pilate answered, “What I have written I have written.” 23 When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and divided them into four parts, one for each soldier. They also took his tunic; now the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from the top. 24 So they said to one another, “Let us not tear it but cast lots for it to see who will get it.” This was to fulfill what the scripture says, “They divided my clothes among themselves, and for my clothing they cast lots.” 25 And that is what the soldiers did. Meanwhile, standing near the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 26 When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing beside her, he said to his mother, “Woman, here is your son.” 27 Then he said to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” And from that hour the disciple took her into his own home.

REQUIEM – AGNUS DEI

Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi,

- Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, -

dona eis requiem, sempiternam requiem.

- grant them everlasting rest. -

Lux aeterna luceat eis Domine:

- May light eternal shine upon them, O Lord, -

Cum sanctis tuis in aeternum,

- in the company of thy saints forever, -

quia pius es.

- for thou art merciful. -

Requiem aeternam dona eis Domine

- Rest eternal grant them, Lord our God, we pray to thee: -

et lux perpetua luceat eis. 

- and light perpetual shine ever upon them. -

SCRIPTURE

John 19:28-37 | New Revised Standard Version, updated edition

28 After this, when Jesus knew that all was now finished, he said (in order to fulfill the scripture), “I am thirsty.” 29 A jar full of sour wine was standing there. So they put a sponge full of the wine on a branch of hyssop and held it to his mouth. 30 When Jesus had received the wine, he said, “It is finished.” Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. 31 Since it was the day of Preparation, the Jews did not want the bodies left on the cross during the Sabbath, especially because that Sabbath was a day of great solemnity. So they asked Pilate to have the legs of the crucified men broken and the bodies removed. 32 Then the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and of the other who had been crucified with him. 33 But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. 34 Instead, one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once blood and water came out. 35 (He who saw this has testified so that you also may believe. His testimony is true, and he knows that he tells the truth, so that you also may continue to believe.) 36 These things occurred so that the scripture might be fulfilled, “None of his bones shall be broken.” 37 And again another passage of scripture says, “They will look on the one whom they have pierced.”

MEDITATION | Pastor Cathy Johns

REQUIEM – LIBERA ME

Libera me, Domine, de morte aeterna,

- Deliver me, O Lord, from death eternal, -

in die illa tremenda, in die illa:

- on that day of terror; -

Quando coeli movendi sunt et terra: 

- when the heavens and the earth shall quake, -

dum veneris judicare saeculum per ignem.

- when you come to judge the world by fire. -

Tremens, factus sum ego et timeo,

- I am seized by trembling, and I fear -

dum discusio venerit,

- until the judgment should come -

atque ventura ira.

- and I also dread the coming wrath. -

Dies illa, dies irae,

- O that day, day of wrath, -

calamitatis et miseriae

- day of calamity and misery, -

dies illa, dies magna

- O that momentous day -

et amara, amara valde.

- and exceedingly bitter, -

Requiem aeternam dona eis Domine

- Rest eternal grant them, Lord our God, we pray to thee: -

et lux perpetua luceta eis.

- and light perpetual shine ever upon them. -

SCRIPTURE

John 19:38-42 | New Revised Standard Version, updated edition

38 After these things, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, though a secret one because of his fear of the Jews, asked Pilate to let him take away the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him permission, so he came and removed his body. 39 Nicodemus, who had at first come to Jesus by night, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, weighing about a hundred pounds. 40 They took the body of Jesus and wrapped it with the spices in linen cloths, according to the burial custom of the Jews. 41 Now there was a garden in the place where he was crucified, and in the garden there was a new tomb in which no one had ever been laid. 42 And so, because it was the Jewish day of Preparation and the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.

REQUIEM – IN PARADISUM

In paradisum deducant angeli:

- May the angels lead you into paradise; -

in tuo adventu suscipiant te martyres,

- may the martyrs welcome you upon your arrival, -

et perducant te in civitatem sanctam Jerusalem.

- and lead you into the holy city of Jerusalem. -

Chorus angelorum te suscipiat,

 - May a choir of angels welcome you, -

et cum Lazaro quondam paupere

- and, with poor Lazarus of old, -

aeternam habeas requiem.

- may you have eternal rest. -

SILENCE

HYMN

Were You There | The United Methodist Hymnal No. 288 (verses 1,2,5)

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 the tree?

Were you there when they nailed him to the tree?

Oh! Sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.

Were you there when they nailed him to the tree?

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?

William Farley Smith | © words: public domain | music: 1989 The United Methodist Publishing House | CCLI License # 487103

STRIPPING OF THE ALTAR

DEPART IN SILENCE

Join us on Easter Sunday,
with the message Life is Greater than Death based on John 20:1-18.

EASTER | april 5

6:30am | sunrise service | christ church field

9am | praise service | gym
10:05am | egg games for teens | christ church field

10:30am | egg hunt within the gated area

11am | traditional service | fort lauderdale sanctuary

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