Meditations for Holy Week 2024 – Palm Sunday
PSALM OLD TESTAMENT EPISTLE GOSPEL Mar 24 am: 24, 29 pm: 103 am Zech 9:9-12 pm: Zech 12:9- 13:9 1 Tim 6:12-16 Matt 21:12-17 PALM SUNDAY LITURGICAL...
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The Challenge of Easter’s Counter-Cultural Servant King
by Dean Curry, Juicy Ecumenism: In Western Christianity’s liturgical calendar, Eastertide – or the Easter season – begins on Easter day and continues until Pentecost Sunday. The message of Eastertide is nothing less than profound: it is a...
read moreHoly Week Meditations: Saturday 8 April
Sat Apr 8 am: 95, 88 pm 27 Job 19:21-27a am: Heb 4:1-16 pm: Rom 8:1-11 – HOLY SATURDAY LITURGICAL THEME FOR THE DAY: This is the Blessed Sabbath. The “Great Vigil” is the day which connects Good Friday, the commemoration...
read moreWhy is Good Friday ‘good’? 5 things to know about the annual observance
by Michael Gryboski, Christian Post: As Christians gear up to celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus on Easter Sunday, they first remember His suffering, crucifixion and death that occurred on what is known as Good Friday. Also known as...
read moreThe Stations of the Cross, a way of sorrows and of love
by Francis Phillips, TCW: The Way of the Cross by Caryll Houselander; Gracewing: WE Christians are sometimes admonished to ‘be in the world but not of the world’. This is a hard balance to strike, especially in our country today where the...
read moreMeditations for Holy Week: Good Friday
Fri Apr 7 am: 95, 22 pm: 40, 54 Gen 22:1-14 1 Pet 1:10-20 am: Jn 13:36-38 pm: Jn 19:38-42 GOOD FRIDAY LITURGICAL THEME FOR THE DAY: The events of Holy Week mark what T. S. Eliot called “the point of intersection of the timeless...
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