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Holy Saturday – The Crucifixion

by Bellshill Central, posted in Other News, Weekly Church News

This Holy Saturday, we invite you to meditate on the words and music of John Stainer’s Crucifixion. Presented by the augmented Bellshill Central Church Choir, with Rev Kevin de Beer, Hugh Ainsley and Jim Grier reading the narrative. Organist is Alan Mathew.

Modelled on the great passion settings of J.S. Bach, Stainer’s Crucifixion is amongst the most popular of all English choral works and vividly portrays the events of the Passion of Christ. Scored for tenor and bass soloists, organ and mixed choir, the piece combines recitatives, solos, and masterful choruses that range from the graphic mob shouts of Crucify Him to the ethereally beautiful meditation at the work’s centrepiece God so loved the world‘.

This was first performed at Bellshill Central Parish Church on Monday 15th April 2019. We re-streamed it for Holy Week 2020, and thought is appropriate to share once more.

We remember our friends in the choir who are now singing in the Lord’s Heavenly Choir – Betty Patrick, Bill Cameron and Betty Mackie – Soli Deo Gloria

Good Friday Reflection Gethsemane

by Bellshill Central, posted in Weekly Church News

A Good Friday Reflection

Matthew 26:36-46
New International Version

Then Jesus went with his disciples to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to them, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.” He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee along with him, and he began to be sorrowful and troubled. Then he said to them, “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me.”

Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.”

Then he returned to his disciples and found them sleeping. “Couldn’t you men keep watch with me for one hour?” he asked Peter. “Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

He went away a second time and prayed, “My Father, if it is not possible for this cup to be taken away unless I drink it, may your will be done.”

When he came back, he again found them sleeping, because their eyes were heavy. So he left them and went away once more and prayed the third time, saying the same thing.

Then he returned to the disciples and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and resting? Look, the hour has come, and the Son of Man is delivered into the hands of sinners. Rise! Let us go! Here comes my betrayer!”