Sunday 5th September, 2010
The Fourteenth Sunday After Trinity
The Way Of The Cross
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An informal series of meditations on the Passion of Christ, drawing on the Holy Scriptures, well-loved hymns, and passages from the Book of Common Prayer.
Jesus Takes Up His Cross
FOR when the head was to be crowned
with thornes, if the members were wrapped in softnesses, it was an unhandsome
undecency and a disunion too near an antipathy, and therefore who
ever will be the Disciples of JESUS, must take up his Crosse, deny himself,
and his own fonder appetites, and trace his Masters footsteps marked
out with bloud, that he shed for our redemption and institution.
Bishop Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667)
The Prayer
O SAVIOUR of the world, who by thy Cross and Precious Blood hast redeemed us; Save us, and help us, we humbly beseech thee, O Lord.
The Reading
THEN delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him away.
And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha: Where they crucified him, and two others with him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst.
John 19:16-17
The Collect
ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who, of thy tender love towards mankind, hast sent thy Son, our Savior Jesus Christ, to take upon him our flesh, and to suffer death upon the cross, that all mankind should follow the example of his great humility; Mercifully grant, that we may both follow the example of his patience, and also be made partakers of his resurrection; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
The Lord's Prayer
OUR Father, which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, As it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, As we forgive them that trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from evil. Amen.
The Supplication
BY thine Agony and Bloody Sweat; by thy Cross and Passion; by thy precious Death and Burial; by thy glorious Resurrection and Ascension, and by the Coming of the Holy Ghost, Good Lord, deliver us.
The Hymn
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?
His dying crimson, like a robe,
Spreads o'er His body on the tree;
Then I am dead to all the globe,
And all the globe is dead to me.
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.
 | When I survey the wondrous Cross  (MP3 Download)Llandaff Cathedral Choir |
 | When I survey the wondrous cross (Rockingham) (MP3 Download)York Minster Choir/John Scott Whiteley/Philip Moore |
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