Arise! People, lift up your eyes, Is. 51:6 And look toward the east; Ps. 103:12 For soon, the glory of the Lord will be revealed, Is. 40:5a All flesh will see it together; Is. 40:5b Arise! For the Sun of Righteousness will come, Mal. 4:2a With healing in His wings! Mal. 4:2b Bend your faces to the east, Is. 24:15 Awaken your eyes to the morning of our salvation! Is.
After the cross had been carried, After the weight is laid down, After the body is buried, Down where the darkness surrounds After the end of the violence, After the sky has gone dark, Now there is nothing but silence Broken by the beat of our hearts He’s gone. He’s gone. He’s gone. He’s gone. After the last words are spoken, We lay him down in the grave.
JS Bach: St Matthew Passion | Erbarme Dich, mein Gott | Iestyn Davies & Academy of Ancient Music
“Unless we walk through the darkness of Holy Week and Good Friday, unless we recognize the horror of sin and its consequence of Jesus dying on the cross, unless we experience the despair the disciples felt on Holy Saturday, we can’t fully understand the light and hope of Sunday morning.” ~Kathleen Stephens How many of our churches liturgize No-Name Saturday, the Holy Saturday Waiting Room – a place of
go on up to the mountain of mercy to the crimson perpetual tide kneel down on the shore be thirsty no more go under and be purified follow Christ to the Holy mountain sinner, sorry and wrecked by the fall cleanse your heart and your soul in the fountain that flows for you and for me and for all at the wonderful tragic mysterious tree on that beautiful scandalous night
The Triumph at Calvary, c. 1874, George Innessexp
James Tissot’s 1890 watercolour “What Our Lord Saw from the Cross” depicts Jesus’ death attended by uninterested Romans, scheming religious leaders, a handful of women, and the boy to whom he will entrust his mother.
Good Friday confronts us with a Saviour who suffers. The cross is the climax of that suffering, but we should never think of Jesus as being immune to the tests and trials of human life. We can bear our cross because he was faithful in bearing his; his sufferings are part of his offering to God. He deals gently with those who are struggling because he is aware of his
James He Qi Praying in the Gethsemane
Do you see dead people? Back in 1999, the haunting movie The Sixth Sense was released. In it, a distressed young boy named Cole (played by Haley Joel Osment) talks to a child psychologist, Malcolm (played by Bruce Willis). Cole: I see dead people. Malcolm: In your dreams? Cole shakes his head. Malcolm: While you're awake? Cole nods. Malcolm: Dead people like, in graves and coffins? Cole: Walking around like
