Last Words of Love – Passiontide Devotion
Seven last words from the Cross in Readings, Prayers, Music and Silence
Last Words of Love – Passiontide Devotion
Seven last words from the Cross in Readings, Prayers, Music and Silence
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Publisher: RSCM Publications
ISBN: 9780854023004
Published: 08/01/2024
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In this Passiontide devotion, we hear the seven last words of Jesus, spoken from the cross; we reflect on the worst of human nature and how it can be transformed through the mystery of self-giving love.
The seven last words, within their biblical readings, are accompanied by a reflection on the readings, a sentence from the poem The Last Words by Michael Symmonds Roberts and the choice of a hymn or an anthem.
The music provided has been chosen to be as flexible as possible, so that the service can be used with just the congregation singing the hymns; or with choir singing the anthems; or a combination of the two.
Last Words of Love includes six anthems in a variety of styles and difficulty, including four written specially for this collection by Joanna Forbes L’Estrange, Thomas Hewitt Jones, Peter Nardone and Amy Summers.
The Gathering
Opening Prayer and response 8
Reading John 19. 16–24 9
Hymn My song is love unknown 10
I –Father, forgive them
Reading Luke 23. 32–38 12
Hymn There in God’s garden stands the tree of wisdom 14
or Anthem The Tree of Life by Peter Nardone 16
II – Today, you will be with me in Paradise
Reading Luke 23. 39–43 20
Hymn How deep the Father’s love for us 22
or Anthem The Love of Christ by Thomas Hewitt Jones 29
III – Here is your Son
Reading John 19. 25–27 36
Hymn Mary, blessed grieving mother 38
or Anthem O Quam Tristis by Amy Summers 40
IV – My God, why have you forsaken me?
Reading Matthew 27. 45–49 48
V –I am thirsty Reading John 19. 28-29 50
Hymn Cross of Jesus, cross of sorrow 52
or Anthem Crux fidelis by Jean IV of Portugal 54
VI – It is finished
Reading John 19. 30 58
Hymn Ah, holy Jesus 60
or Anthem God so loved the world by John Stainer 62
VII – Father into your hands
Reading Luke 23. 44–49 70
Hymn When I survey the wondrous cross 72
or Anthem Words from the Cross by Joanna Forbes L’Estrange 76
The Cross of Christ
Reading John 19. 31–42 88
Hymn Were you there when you crucified my Lord? 90
