Friday, March 21, 2008

A lone young Shepherd


After a long time he climbed a tree,

and spread his shining arms,

and hung by them, and died,

His heart an open wound with love. - St. John of the Cross


Also from Abbey-Roads2, a short reflection on some bizarre customs that hopefully belong only to the past.


Fr. Mark discusses the power of the Paschal liturgy
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In the chants of Good Friday, Christ, the immolated Lamb and the Bridegroom of the Church, prays and offers himself to the Father, drawing the Church into his prayer, into his sacrifice and into his glorious exaltation. The chants of the "adoratio Crucis" reveal the Cross as the locus of Christ’s glorification and the throne of mercy towards which the Church addresses bold supplication for her own needs and for those of all people. The Cross is the Tree of Life planted in the midst of the Church, the abiding sign of the Father’s mercy, of the Son’s crucified love, and of the Holy Spirit’s lifegiving action.


Here is a martyr for Good Friday.

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