Day: March 21, 2008

Presiding Bishop’s pilgrimage

“Good Friday in Jerusalem was a day filled with many blessings and a solemn reminder of Jesus’ painful journey to his crucifixion as Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori and an Episcopal Church delegation joined pilgrims and Christians in the Holy Land to share in Christ’s Passion.”

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Good Friday fast or feast

Poverty and privilege have at least one thing in common — they are both about choice, or lack of the same. This first struck me most powerfully during my first trip to Ghana several years ago. I only had to be there a few days when I realized that my most valuable possession wasn’t my laptop or my camera … but my American passport. With it I had the choice whether to stay or to go. Whether to make a life there or leave and make a life elsewhere.

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A Good Friday meditation

Matt Gunter, reflecting on the image of a Soviet sub’s nuclear powerplant gone critical, reflects on the parallels between the contamination caused by the leaking radiation and the way our sinful natures contaminate our relationships with the people who surround us in our lives. “We are contaminated. What’s even harder for us to admit is that many of our actions and thoughts contribute to the contamination.”

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Crossmas?

Why is it that there is such a difference in the way the secular world celebrates the two major Christian holidays of Easter and Christmas? Christmas is so universally observed among people that preachers frequently worry about the secular elements creeping into the celebration. The Triduum (and Easter in particular) have resisted this secular appropriation. Why?

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Good Friday

As evening fell, Paul Fromberg, our priest, was setting up for services. A long-haired homeless guy, kind of sweaty and intense, strolled in looking for groceries, and Paul explained to him that the food pantry was closed for Good Friday. “But don’t you have anything to eat?” the stranger asked.

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They know not what they do

In Jesus’ time, crucifixion was not against the law. It was carried out by the law. It was an exceptionally gruesome method of torturing a person to death, carried out by the government not in secret dungeons but in public.

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