Bishop Peter Fenty leads our service on this Good Friday, April 3, 2026, with Music Director Zacharia Dekker, and Lay Reader and Intercessor Kirk Hearder. The service begins and ends with the traditional silent procession. The lessons are read by Christine Cox (The Book of Isaiah 52:13-53:12) and Greg Finlayson (The Letter to the Hebrews 10:16-25). Zach cantors the verses to Psalm 22, while the congregation responds with, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”, and, with the change in tone part-way through, “All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord”, from the George Black setting, ‘In the Midst of the Congregation’. The service includes the multi-reader ‘Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ according to John’, and, ‘The Meditation on the Cross of Jesus’, during which congregants can bring a spike to lay at the cross at the altar. Our hymns: ‘Go to Dark Gethsemane’ (Common Praise #190); and, ‘People Draw Near to God’ (#201). The choir sings the anthem, ‘Deep Were His Wounds’, by Hal H. Hopson & William Johnson.
St. John’s, East Orangeville is located in Caledon, Ontario Canada, and is a parish within the Anglican Diocese of Toronto. It is a ground-level fully accessible church and hall. Please visit our website at stjohnsorangeville.ca, where you will find links to our extensive recording archives (the ‘Recent Recordings’ heading on our homepage, and earlier recordings in ‘All Recordings’ under the Menu), as well as the opportunity to make a donation to support this Outreach Ministry. We thank you for your interest and for joining us.