ACKNOWLEDGEMENT FOR THE FIRST PEOPLES

 

We acknowledge this land that God has created and blessed. We pay our respects to the Wallumettagal people of the Eora Nation, the first inhabitants of this place. We honour their custodianship of the land on which we gather today and its surrounding waters, and offer our respect to their Elders, past, present, and emerging.

 

 

WELCOME          Seung Jae Yeon

 

For us and for our salvation,

Jesus Christ humbled himself,

and became obedient to the point of death –

even death on a cross.                 

Philippians 2:8

 

HYMN                Were you there? (345)

 

Sing verses 1, 2, 3 & 5 only.

 

Were you there when they crucified my Lord?

Were you there when they crucified my Lord?

O 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 three?

Were you there when they nailed him to the three?

O sometimes it causes me

to tremble, tremble, tremble;

Were you there when they nailed him to the three?

 

Were you there when they pierced him in the side?

Were you there when they pierced him in the side?

O sometimes it causes me

to tremble, tremble, tremble;

Were you there when they pierced him in the side?

 

Were you there when they laid him in the tomb?

Were you there when they laid him in the tomb?

O sometimes it causes me

to tremble, tremble, tremble;

Were you there when they laid him in the tomb?

 

Arr. Francis Brotherton Westbrook

 

PRAYER OF THE DAY        Alan Keast

    

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?

 

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.                 

Isaac Watts

 

THE GOOD FRIDAY WALK       

Hunters Hill and Gladesville Ecumenical Network Presents

 

 

HYMN                Jesus, remember me (730)

 

Sing three times.

 

Jesus remember me

when you come into your kingdom.

Jesus remember me

when you come into your kingdom.

 

CONCLUDING PRAYER   Robyn Harvey

 

Everyone leaves quietly in their own time.