HE IS RISEN!
This last week, a crazy work schedule has gotten the best of me and hasn’t let me blog through the holiest week of the year. Crazy, eh? I just wanted to link to some posts I did last year on “Holy Week”. And give a big shout out that HE IS RISEN!!! (which I neglected to do yesterday at our church service…)
- Holy Week: Wednesday the Silent Day
- Holy Week: Maundy Thursday
Good Friday
This is the day Christ was murdered on a cross by the Romans (at the demands of the Jewish mobs that were incited by the Jewish leaders of the time.)
Ever wonder why they call it “Good Friday”? What’s so good about it anyway? Apparently it comes from the same place we get “Gospel” which either means “good spell” (good story) or “God’s spell” (God’s story). As either definition of gospel works, so it works for Good Friday, which either came from the German “Gottes Freitag” (God’s Friday) or “Gute Freitag” (Good Friday). Either way it has been called “The Great and Holy Friday” in church tradition.
Holy Saturday
The Sabbath Day. God rested from creation, Christ rested in the tomb. A day of weeping and sorrow while awaiting the “Joy that comes with the morning” of Easter.
Easter Sunday
HE IS RISEN! HE IS RISEN INDEED!
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