Over the past several years I have read through the Gospel of Mark many times as I have been working through editing Michael Spencer’s commentary. (For those who have been eagerly awaiting this, I am afraid it has been slow going.) One thing that strikes me as being of particular interest each time I readContinue reading “Holy Week 2015: A Call to Greater Remembrance (Mike Bell)”
Category Archives: Holy Week
Holy Week 2015: The Coup, the Queen, and the Resurrection (Damaris Zehner)
This is a good year: Orthodox Pascha and Catholic Easter are on different days, so I can go to both liturgies. My daughters and I, though not Orthodox, love the marathon of song, prayer, procession, and candlelight that begins on Holy Saturday and continues until the small hours on Sunday. We also love the three-in-the-morningContinue reading “Holy Week 2015: The Coup, the Queen, and the Resurrection (Damaris Zehner)”
Holy Week 2015: The Way of the Cross (Lisa Dye)
“The way of perfection passes by way of the Cross.” • Paragraph 2015, Catechism of the Catholic Church • • • Five years ago, Internet Monk offered a series during Holy Week on the Stations of the Cross as Michael Spencer was struggling through his last days here on earth. I was new to theContinue reading “Holy Week 2015: The Way of the Cross (Lisa Dye)”
Holy Week 2015: Glorified (Rob Grayson)
“The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.” • John 12:23 According to John’s gospel, Jesus utters these words shortly after entering Jerusalem at the beginning of this holiest and darkest of weeks. The atmosphere is heavy with speculation that Jesus could be the one to spearhead the revolution that will finally throw offContinue reading “Holy Week 2015: Glorified (Rob Grayson)”
Holy Week 2015: The Yes or No (Michael Spencer)
Then He poured water into the basin, and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded. So He came to Simon Peter. He said to Him, “Lord, do You wash my feet?” Jesus answered and said to him, “What I do you do not realize now, but you willContinue reading “Holy Week 2015: The Yes or No (Michael Spencer)”
How Old Was Jesus When He Died – And Does It Matter?
Some matters are not straight forward as they might originally seem. For all we know about Jesus, there is a lot we do not know. The Bible, for example, tells a grand total of one story about his childhood. Jesus’ age at his death is not known with any great certainty, and there is muchContinue reading “How Old Was Jesus When He Died – And Does It Matter?”
Thomas Merton: Living in the Freedom of Easter
These words from Trappist monk Thomas Merton about Easter could not have been said better by any Lutheran or Protestant. He reminds us that Easter is not just about Jesus rising from the dead, defeating death. It is about our death and resurrection as well. In particular, Merton has us meditate on Paul’s teachingContinue reading “Thomas Merton: Living in the Freedom of Easter”
Why We Need Holy Saturday
Note: In honor of Holy Saturday, we will not have an edition of Saturday Ramblings today. We will have a “links” post early in the week to come. * * * For I handed on to you as of first importance what I in turn had received: that Christ died for our sins in accordanceContinue reading “Why We Need Holy Saturday”
Why the Change in the Crowd?
A very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road, while others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. 9The crowds that went ahead of him and those that followed shouted, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Hosanna in theContinue reading “Why the Change in the Crowd?”
Holy Thursday at the Tea Party
Sometimes, I’ve got nothing. Nothing to write about. No insightful words to impart. No interesting metaphors to spark the imagination. No provocative prose, no poetry to prime the pump. I’m sitting and trying to think, but everything is fuzzy, my mind full of inchoate thoughts, like bats fluttering around in an attic. I get theContinue reading “Holy Thursday at the Tea Party”
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