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Lenten Reflections: Good Friday

April 15, 2022 by Bobby Gross No Comments

“We cannot fix ourselves, we cannot declare ourselves forgiven, we cannot save ourselves.

And so the journey leads us to this Friday and the starkness of the cross.”

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Filed Under: Christian Thought and Practice, Devotional, Lent Tagged With: good friday, Lent 2022

Book Review: A Glorious Dark, by A. J. Swoboda

March 6, 2017 by Bob Trube No Comments

An exploration of living in the tension of the glorious hope of Christian faith and the dark, unsettling realities of our lives through reflections grouped around the Friday, Saturday, and Sunday of the Triduum of Holy Week. A great book to read reflectively during Holy Week [April 9 – 16, 2017].

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Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion Tagged With: A. J. Swoboda, Book Review, easter, evil, good friday, holy, Holy Saturday, Holy Week, hope, Suffering, Triduum

Holy Week: Contemplating an Uncanny Calendrical Coincidence

March 24, 2016 by Kevin Birth 3 Comments

This week, we’ll have what may be the last opportunity in our lifetimes to experience the intersection of Good Friday and the feast of the Annunciation. We invite you to read Kevin Birth’s thoughtful exploration of this calendrical coincidence below, and to consider meditating on John Donne’s poetic exploration of the same coincidence tomorrow, on Good Friday itself.

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Filed Under: Christian Thought and Practice, Science and Faith Tagged With: Annunciation, death, good friday, Holy Week, jesus christ, John Donne, life, resurrection, science, time

Good Friday

April 3, 2015 by ESN Announce No Comments

Ah, holy Jesus, how hast thou offended,
that we to judge thee have in hate pretended?
By foes derided, by thine own rejected,
O most afflicted!

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy Tagged With: good friday, Holy Week 2015, hymns, Jacques Le Breton, Johann Heermann, lent

Death and Resurrection

April 18, 2014 by David 1 Comment

He was a young man, and I could see fear in his eyes as he gripped the railings of the bed and struggled to breathe, sucking in heavily through the plastic mask feeding him oxygen. His body was wasting away from cancer, and the infections that had crept into his lungs were now forcing every […]

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Devotional Tagged With: Christ hymn, death, Death be not proud, easter, good friday, healthcare, Holy Week, humility, John Donne, medicine, Philippians 2:1-11, resurrection

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