Seven Words to Us - A Good Friday Tenebrae Service
Drama
by Douglas W. Orbaker

Call to Worship (Lamentations 1:12 and Isaiah 53:5)

Leader: Does this mean nothing to you, all you who pass by?

People: Look, see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow.

Leader: He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities.

People: Upon him was the chastisement that made us whole, and with his stripes we are healed.

Hymn

Part 1

Scripture: Luke 23:32-38

Prayer of Confession: Everlasting and Merciful God, you are always more ready to forgive than we are to repent. We remember this day the suffering and death of our Lord Jesus Christ, and confess to you our shame in the sins which crucified him. Grant us grace that we may be reconciled to you, through your Son and our Lord. Amen

A Litany on Forgiveness

Leader: When They came to the place called "the skull" they crucified Jesu…

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