Reflection Questions:

  1. Why do we call Good Friday “Good”?

  2. Are there areas of your life that you need Jesus’s redeeming light and invitation to life? 

Spiritual Practice: Communion

Take some time today to prepare communion with the elements of bread/crackers and juice/wine for yourself (and family). Before partaking, invite Jesus into the areas of your life where you may have fallen short. Take time to receive God’s love and forgiveness there. Then continue with the liturgy below.

Communion Liturgy:

The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said:

“Take, eat, this is my body which is given for you.
Do this in remembrance of me.”

When the supper was over, Jesus took the cup gave thanks, gave it to his disciples, and said:

“Drink from this, all of you; this is my blood of the new covenant, poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins. Do this as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”

End in a time of remembrance and gratitude for Jesus’s act of love on the cross. By His blood we are fully forgiven, made fully right with God, adopted into God’s family and given new life.