The Good Friday Liturgy invokes all of our senses to meet our Beloved Christ on the Cross. The shape of the service is patterned after the ancient observance on Good Friday and consists of three parts:
- Scripture Readings (our listening and our minds)
- Praying around the Cross (our touch and our hearts)
- Holy Communion (our taste and our hunger)
You will be invited to pray around the Icon Cross of the Taizé Community. The ecumenical community of Taizé in France was founded with the hope to be a sign of reconciliation between divided Christians and between separated peoples. Every Friday night at Taizé, the Icon Cross is placed flat on the floor of the Church of Reconciliation. All present are invited to come forward to the cross. As a gesture of their solidarity with the poor and oppressed peoples of the world, pilgrims place their foreheads on the Cross and remain there for a few moments. This symbolic gesture brings home very clearly that Christ still suffers in the downtrodden and victims of injustice in the world today
For those who had not taken communion on Good Friday before, the ancient observance invites us to enter into sacramental union with Jesus, the Victim of the Cross, despite the absence of the physical presence of Christ remembered on Good Friday. The Holy Communion used in this service is the reserved sacrament consecrated on Maundy Thursday during the Institution of the Lord’s Supper.
The Rev. Clarence Li will be presiding and the Rev. April Stanley will be preaching.
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the PASSCODE is 123.
Meeting ID: 849 3747 0476