Each year on Good Friday here at St. Luke’s, our Chancel Choir gives a magnificent performance of Dubois’ sacred cantata, “The Seven Last Words of Christ,”… a moving musical presentation of the seven sayings of Christ while He was being crucified on Good Friday. How many of those seven last words can; you remember? 

• First, He prays for His executioners – “Father forgive them, they know not what they do."
• Second, He says to the thief on the cross, “Today you will be with me in paradise." 
• Third, He provides for the care of His mother through the disciple John as He says, “Woman, behold your son,” and to John He says, “Behold your mother”; meaning, “Mother, from this point forward John will be like a son to you… John will take care of you.” 
• Fourth, there is the lament from Psalm 22, “…