Good Friday: Lent: Lord Teach Me to Pray/Give Your Heart to God

Good Friday: Dark Night of the Soul. When Jesus descended into Hell—that means Jesus, somehow felt what it meant to be fully abandoned (even though he was God) and he knows the lament of utter desolation, for you have to know that feeling to be human.

Inhale: My pain is valid
Exhale: God can handle my pain

Read: Psalm 22:1-2, 14-15
Read Mark 15:1-39

Hymn: Were You There When They Crucified My Lord

Taize: Jesus Remember Me When You Come into Your Kingdom (also option for Maundy Thurs), O Lord Hear My Prayer

Have every one say “My God, My God Why have you abandoned me” 4 or 5 times

Then end with the leader whispering it

Prayer Activity: Pray in the dark with candles lit (perhaps each congregant has a pillar/small candle), silently

Blow the candles out at the end

Taize: Ubi Caritas, Watch and Pray

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Pastor Katy has enjoyed ministry at New Covenant since 2010, where the church has solidified its community focus. She now works at Capital CFO plus as the Non Profit Director. All opinions expressed on this blog are her own and do not reflect those of Capital CFO plus. Prior to that she studied both Theology and Christian Formation at Princeton Theological Seminary. She also served as an Assistant Chaplain at Trenton Psychiatric Hospital and as the Christian Educational Coordinator at Bethany Presbyterian at Bloomfield, NJ. She is an writer and is published in Enfleshed, Sermonsuite, Presbyterian's today and Outlook. She writes prayers, liturgy, poems and public theology and is pursuing her doctorate in ministry in Creative Write and Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. She enjoys working within and connecting to the community, is known to laugh a lot during service, and tells as many stories as possible. Pastor Katy loves reading Science Fiction and Fantasy, theater, arts and crafts, music, playing with children and sunshine, and continues to try to be as (w)holistically Christian as possible. "Publisher after publisher turned down A Wrinkle in Time," L'Engle wrote, "because it deals overtly with the problem of evil, and it was too difficult for children, and was it a children's or an adult's book, anyhow?" The next year it won the prestigious John Newbery Medal. Tolkien states in the foreword to The Lord of the Rings that he disliked allegories and that the story was not one.[66] Instead he preferred what he termed "applicability", the freedom of the reader to interpret the work in the light of his or her own life and times.

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