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Join us for our Good Friday Tenebrae (Latin for darkness or shadows) service in its entirety. Roy Broussard serves as lay reader, Jean Darnell as hymn leader, and Dustin Tatro offers "Ah, Holy Jesus" to close the service. Those in attendance were given a cross-shaped card with the text of this hymn as a take-away meditation for the weekend.

On Good Friday Clay invited those present to reflect on the differences between Pilate's desire to keep the peace and Jesus' desire to disturb the peace. This reflection was a cooperative effort between Glynn and Clay. "Jesus was killed for disturbing the peace. This is somewhat ironic when his followers would later call him ‘The Prince of Peace’. Peace is one of those words like love, hope or truth that can be interpreted very differently depending on where you are standing." Text and video links available at http://www.stmatthews.org.nz/nav.php?sid=533&id=1050.