Posted on March 20, 2008 by bunderwood
Palm Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Maundy Thursday
Good Friday’s Reading: Mark 15
When Jesus died on Friday, the world shook. The sun stopped. Creation stood still. Everyone Jesus loved waited in anxious bewilderment – only failed Messiahs hung on crosses. Even Jesus wondered if God had given up. Love died on that imperial [...]
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Posted on March 20, 2008 by bunderwood
A Maundy Thursday Prayer by Walter Brueggemann
The Pivot of Hope
This day of dread and betrayal and denial
causes a pause in out busyness.
Who would have thought that you would take
this eighth so of Jesse
to become the pivot of hope in our ancient memory?
Who would have thought that you would take
this uncredentialed
Galilean rabbi
to become the pivot of [...]
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