Good Friday Alternative Liturgy
Resolution 2024-A115 authorized Good Friday Alternative Texts for use, with the consent of the bishop or the ecclesiastical authority.
Per the explanation of the resolution the alternative texts are designed “to provide a theologically positive accounting of the Jewish people in the Good Friday liturgy. In a time of rising antisemitic violence and rhetoric in the United States and globally, our Jewish partners are looking to Christians of good will for responses. Addressing the problems within the Good Friday liturgy, which historically has been a source of Christian rhetorical and physical violence against Jews, is one concrete way of responding.”
Additional Holy Week Services in Book of Occasional Services (2022)
- The Way of the Cross
- A Scriptural Way of the Cross
- Tenebrae
- On Maundy Thursday
- At the Foot-Washing
- On Reserving the Sacrament
- On the Stripping of the Altar
- Agapé for Maundy Thursday