By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer
The worshippers on Good Friday at Nassau Presbyterian Church sat in silence, the quiet broken when the organist started playing the familiar hymn “Were you there.”, “May Jesus remember us when He comes into His kingdom,” the Rev. David Davis, the pastor, told the congregation in his benediction closing the early afternoon service., There and in churches around Princeton, people gathered on one of the holiest days of the Christian calendar to remember the death of Jesus Christ. At St. Paul Parish, a bi-lingual service in Spanish and English drew a crowd in the midday at the Catholic Church on Nassau Street., Earlier at Trinity Church on Mercer Street, they arrived for the traditional stations of the cross, held outside on the church grounds. At each stop, someone would step forward to carry a wooden cross to the next station along the way. One of the clergy swung a censer to release incense., “It was a wonderful service,” said Susan Taylor, a member of the Episcopal church for 14 years., Afterward, the Rev. Paul Jeanes at Trinity sought to explain the importance of Good Friday., “People like to jump to Easter, but this day is essential to our faith,” he said., He said before the joy of Easter celebrating Christ’s resurrection, there was the suffering, brokenness and betrayal of Good Friday. He believed it is important that people look at those three things in their lives and the world around them., In doing so, “we find the way and call to bring hope, grace and Easter life.”
