Good Friday: The Passion with Handel's Messiah (Part II)

619 Lexington Avenue,New York NY 10022

15 April, 2022

Description

This year’s Passion featuring Handel’s Messiah (Part II) is a Good Friday liturgy featuring selections of Handel's Messiah (Part II). This year’s Passion featuring Handel’s Messiah (Part II) joins William Cooper and Brian Alvarado’s Passion According to Saint Luke from 2021 and decades of performances of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Saint Matthew Passion and Saint John Passion in a long-standing commitment to presenting celebrated music within the context of liturgy. About The Three Days: Good Friday The Three Days (Triduum, in latin) is the church’s singular liturgy of God’s gift of new life in the passion, death, burial and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. Holy Thursday’s Rite of Reconciliation and Solemn Mass of the Lord’s Supper leads to Good Friday’s Liturgy of the Cross and then to the celebration of the resurrection at The Great Vigil of Easter. Jesus is taken by the Roman army to Golgotha, a garbage heap outside Jerusalem’s city wall. He is crucified by them there. Christians mark Good Friday as a moment of life because while in that moment the forces of Empire prevail, God in Christ Jesus refuses to look the other way. Standing with all humanity -- particularly with the maligned and vulnerable -- Jesus redeems even death itself, saying: “It is finished.” --Saint John 19:30 Please note that we have limited seats availalbe for each liturgy, in keeping with our Covid-19 Health and Safety Guidelines.