GOOD FRIDAY • APRIL 7, 2023 • 12 PM
ENVISIONING THE PASSION
Visit asburyfirst.org/easter if you’d like to get a behind-the- scenes tour of some of the images that will be featured in today’s “Envisioning the Passion” service. In this introductory video the program’s artistic coordinator, Lucy Durkin, shares some of the images and highlights some of the remarkable features of the inspiring artworks she has chosen.
Welcome to Asbury First United Methodist Church as we experience the Word by joining scripture, music and art. The practice of using simple symbols to convey complex concepts goes back to the earliest days of Christianity. In times when literacy was low, a woodcut such as the one below tells the whole of Jesus’ last days on earth on a single page by using bits and pieces or visual quotations which trigger the viewer’s memory of the well-known stories. Called the “Instruments of the Passion” or the arma Christi (which literally translates as the arms or weapons of Christ), each individual element shows an essential tool that Jesus needed on his journey to conquer sin and redeem Adam’s original transgression. The Instruments include objects at the Crucifixion itself; the cross, nails, hammers, a ladder, pliers, the spear which pierced Jesus’ side, the sponge with vinegar and gall, Jesus’ seamless robe and the dice the soldiers used to cast lots. In many you will see the sun and the moon, to remind us of the great darkness that covered the land while Christ was on the cross. Many also show the instruments of torture used to mock and beat Jesus; whips, the column to which Jesus was bound, the reed scepter and crimson or purple robe of mockery, detached heads of people spitting and hands slapping or pinching; and, of course, the crown of thorns. Often images include reminders of other episodes from the night before the Crucifixion; the cock that crowed as Peter denied Christ; the thirty pieces of silver, Judas kissing Jesus and the lanterns that lit the Garden of Gethsemane, or the ear of the High Priest’s servant and the knife used to cut it off. It’s a rich tapestry (and yes, you will see one of those, too!) that connects and amplifies the deeper meanings that transcend the objects themselves. The poetry, music and images included in today’s service span twelve hundred years, a living testimony to the enduring truths they present. — Lucy Winters Durkin, Artistic Coordinator; Carl Johengen, Director of Music Ministry; Stephen Cady, Senior Minister
On the Cover: Follower of the Jouvenal Master: Instruments of the Passion from the Carmelite Missal of Nantes, 1471-76, Princeton University Library
INTRODUCTION
Left: unknown German: The Sacred Heart and Five Wounds with the Instruments of the Passion, 1450-60, hand-colored woodcut, British Museum, London
Prelude Duane Prill, Organ Brian Donat, Cello
Meditation on “Rockingham Old” — arr. Stanley Saxton “What Wondrous Love is This” — arr. Dale Wood “What Wondrous Love is This” — arr. Gail Ann Wasson
Welcome and Introduction
Follower of the Jouvenal Master: Instruments of the Passion from The Carmelite Missal of Nantes, 1471-76, Princeton University Library Francesco Tanadei: Instruments of the Passion, late 18th century, private collection unknown Bavarian: Wayside Cross with the Arma Christi, photographed in 2016, Appertshofen, Bavaria
Chorale
“What Child Is This” — words: William Dix, 1865; tune: Greensleeves, 16th century English melody (verse 2 refrain:) “Nails, spear, shall pierce Him through, the Cross be borne for me, for you. Hail, hail the Word made flesh, the babe, the Son of Mary.”
W. J. Wiegand: “What Child Is This?” in Christmas Carols New and Old, 1871 , engraving Hieronymus Wierix: The Christ Child Carrying Instruments of the Passion, c. 1600 engraving
Call to Worship Based on Psalm 22
You, O Lord, are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel. In you our ancestors trusted, and you delivered them. All the ends of the earth shall remember, and turn to the Lord. All the families of the nations shall worship before him.
Hymn
#290 “Go to Dark Gesthemane”, vv. 1-3
Antonio Cirreti: Instruments of the Passion, 3rd quarter 17th century, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Prayer of Invocation
unknown Lithuanian: Shrine with the Instruments of the Passion, late 19th-early 20th century, National Museum of Lithuania, Vilnius
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Good Friday Envisioning the Passion
Duane Prill, Organ
“Fugue in G minor on the Chant of an Israelite Prayer” — Elsa Barraine (1910-1999)
The Passion Narrative in Images
Salvador Dali: Sacrament of the Last Supper, 1955, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. unknown Byzantine: Christ Washing the Disciple’s Feet, early 11th century, Hosios Loukas Monastery Voiotia, Greece El Greco: Agony in the Garden, c. 1590-95, Toledo Museum of Art John August Swanson: Agony in the Garden, 1989, private collection Hans Holbein: Arrest of Christ, 1501, Stadel Institut, Frankfurt Jakob Smits: Kiss of Judas, 1908, Royal Museum of the Fine Arts of Belgium, Antwerp Giotto: Christ Before Caiaphas, c. 1305, Arena Chapel, Padua Dirk van Baburen: Denial of Peter, 1620-24, National Museum, Krakow Elwyn Lynn: Betrayal, 1957, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Paulus Hoffman: Remorse of Peter, c. 2015, private collection James Tissot: Jesus Led from Caiphas to Pilate, 1886-94, Brooklyn Museum of Art Jacek Malczewski: Christ Before Pilate, 1910, Lviv National Gallery, Ukraine Mihaly Munkácsy: Ecce Homo (Here is the Man), 1881, Deri Museum, Debrecen, Hungary Hans Memling: Jeering Crowd (fragment of Mocking of Christ), mid-15th century, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh Jan Lievens: Pilate Washing His Hands, 1623-25, Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal, Leiden unknown Armenian: Christ Before Pilate, 1386, Getty Collection, Los Angeles Henry Ossawa Tanner: The Savior, 1900-05, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. Peter Howson: Head of Christ, 2009, private collection
Scripture
Isaiah 53:4-6, 11-12
José Benito Ortega: Our Father, Jesus of Nazareth, c. 1885, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. unknown Bohemian: The Mocking of Christ, c. 1400, Staatliche Museen, Berlin
Choral Music
“Vere languores” — Francesco Feroci (1673-1750) Truly, our failings he has taken upon himself, and our sorrows he has borne.
Millard Sheets: Head of Christ, 1945, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Master of the Berswordt Altar: The Flagellation, c. 1400, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Kerrstin Ekengren: Head of Christ, 1971, National Museum, Stockholm Benedetto Bonfigli and Bartolomeo Caporali: Christ the Redeemer, c. 1455, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven Joseph Maria de Subirachs: Christ at the Column, 1986-2010, Sagrada Familia, Barcelona
The Cross Speaks (Part 1)
excerpt from “The Dream of the Rood”, Anglo-Saxon, 8th century, trans. Richard Hammer, 1970
George Rouault: The Executioner’s Helper Carrying a Board of the Cross, 1936-39, Art Institute of Chicago William Blake: Christ Nailed to the Cross (The Third Hour), 1800-03, Morgan Library, New York Pacino di Bonaguida: Scenes from the Life of Christ and the Life of the Blessed Gerard of Villamanga, c. 1320, Morgan Library, New York
Instrumental Music Brian Donat, Cello Duane Prill, Piano
“Studies on English Folksong”, nos. 1-3 — Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Roberto Oderisi: Man of Sorrows, 1354, Harvard University Art Museum, Cambridge Heinrich Campendonk: Arma Christi, designed 1937, posthumous version in stained glass executed c. 1997, Christ the King Church, Penzberg, Germany unknown Southern Netherlandish: Tapestry of the Arma Christi, c. 1500, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Matthew 27:27-31
Hannah Varghese: Christ Crowned with Thorns, c. 2002, private collection
“To Mock Your Reign, O Dearest Lord” — words: Fred Pratt Green, 1972; tune: Third Tune, Thomas Tallis (1505-1585)
Albert Bouts: Man of Sorrows, late 15th century, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon Master of Mary of Burgundy: Christ as the Man of Sorrows in Glory (from the Voustre Demeure Book of Hours), c. 1480, Staatliche Museen, Berlin unknown German: The Passion of Christ, c. 1400, Indianapolis Museum of Art Hans Baldung Grien: Christ as the Man of Sorrows, c. 1520, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart Jean Pichore: Ecce Homo (Here is the Man), c. 1500, Getty Collection, Los Angeles Andrea Previtali: Salvator Mundi (Savior of the World), 1519, National Gallery, London
“O crux fidelis” — Andrea Gabrieli (1533-1585) Faithful cross, among them all the one noble tree; no forest yields your like, in flower, foliage, or fruit. Sweet wood, sweet nail sustaining sweet weight.
Clementine Hunter: Black Christ on the Cross, c. 1972, Folk Art Museum, New York Robert Spencer: Crucifixion, 1931, private collection Marc Chagall: White Crucifixion, 1938, Art Institute of Chicago Lawrence Salander: Crucifixion, 1992, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. Romare Bearden: Crucifixion, c. 1948, private collection unknown Yoruba: Crucifix, 19th century, Detroit Institute of Arts Craigie Aitchison: Crucifixion 9, 1987, Tate Gallery, London Michael Edmonds: Crucifixion, 1988, Methodist Modern Art Collection, London Jamini Roy: Crucifixion, 1920s-30s, National Museum of Modern Art, New Delhi Eric Gill: Crucifix with the Chalice and Host, 1915, British Museum, London
John 19:17-30
E.A.F. Prynne: Christ Nailed to the Cross, c. 1898, St. Stephen’s House, Oxford University Abraham Rattner: They Divided His Garments Among Them, 1973, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. Robert Delaunay: Crucifixion, no date, private collection unknown French: Crucifixion (The Boucicaut Hours), c. 1405-08, Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris Jumbo Dawulinyera: Crucifixion, c. 1968, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Solo Sipra Agrawal Kolar, Soprano Duane Prill, Piano
“The Crucifixion” — Samuel Barber, from Hermit Songs (1953); words from The Speckled Book, 12th century, translated by Howard Mumford Jones
Kesu Dás: Crucifixion, 1590, British Museum, London unknown German: The Deposition, 15th century, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Lovis Corinth: Descent from the Cross, 1895, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne Gustave Moreau: Pietà, 1867, Stadel Museum, Frankfurt
The Cross Speaks (Part 2)
Gaspar Nunez Delgado: Crucifix, 1599, Indianapolis Museum of Art Annibale Carracci: Body of Christ with the Instruments of the Passion, 1583-85, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart Abraham Rattner: Descent from the Cross, 1942, Art Institute of Chicago Jesús Urbano Rojas: Arma Christi (Cross of the Passion), c. 1958, Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe Ercol Ferrata inspired by Gianlorenzo Bernini: Angel with the Cross, 17th century, Ponte Sant’Angelo, Rome
“Studies on English Folksong”, no. 4 — Ralph Vaughan Williams
Don Drake: Descent from the Cross, c. 2018, private collection Lavinia Fontana: The Dead Christ with Instruments of the Passion, 1581, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida Roy deMaistre: Deposition, 1952, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Charles Bartley Jeffery: Deposition and Angels, 1948, Cleveland Museum of Art
Matthew 27:57-61
Lorenzo Monaco: Instruments of the Passion, 1404, Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence
“We Three Kings” — words and music: John H. Hopkins, Jr., 1857 (verse 4:) “Myrrh is mine; its bitter perfume breathes a life of gathering gloom; sorrowing, sighing, bleeding, dying, sealed in the stone-cold tomb.”
probably Benedetto Bonfigli: Adoration of the Kings with Christ on the Cross, c. 1465-75, National Gallery, London
Poem
“At the Cross” — Andy Stinson (2011)
Kim Young Gil: Crucifixion, c. 1990, private collection
Departure
Please depart in silence.
Max Ingrand: Crucifixion, c. 1945, Notre Dame d'Avesnières, Laval, France
Participants In the Service
Readers: Rev. Dr. Stephen Cady, Rev. Rachel Dupont, Rev. Kathy Thiel, Rev. Pat Dupont, Mike Mullin Artistic Coordinator: Lucy Durkin Organist: Duane Prill Cello: Brian Donat Choral Ensemble: Sipra Agrawal Kolar, Brenda Nitsch, Dan McInerney, Jordan Bachmann, Heather Holmquest, Megan Ormsbee, Robert Cowles, Carl Johengen Director of Music Ministry: Dr. Carl Johengen Audio Operator: Dave Berg Video Operator: Kenny Bailey Graphics Operators: Lucy Durkin, Larry Dugan Technology Support Team: Deb Bullock-Smith, Carolyn Curran, Ted Skomsky Technical Consultant: Justin Ocello Screen and Projector Setup: Michael Besaw, Highland Media Services
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Permissions: Choral Music in the public domain. “To Mock Your Reign” words © 1973 Hope Publishing Co.; “The Crucifixion" © 1954, G. Schirmer, Inc.; Hymns © 1989 The United Methodist Publishing House; OneLicense.net #A-721053. Illustration Credits: Designed by Sarah Brubaker and Aleeya Bourcy, and Freepik and Vecteezy.
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