The Only Story
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Faith on Wednesday, March 31, 2010
There is only one story.
My dad, who is a storyteller himself, has been saying that for as long as I can remember. I don’t think he came up with the idea, but he loves it and repeats it often. There’s one story. Only one.
He means the story we remember this week: the Savior of the world, God’s own Son sent to earth out of His love. Betrayed, beaten, and hung on a tree, soul violently ripped from body... READ MORE
The Passion on Good Friday
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Faith on Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Every Good Friday after the liturgy, my dad watches Mel Gibson’s 2004 movie The Passion of the Christ. Some of my family members always watch it with him.
I am never one of them. I saw the movie in the theater during Holy Week the year it came out, and I’m glad I did, but I haven’t watched it since then.
There are a couple reasons for this. First of all, I’m a very visual person and I have a near-photographic... READ MORE
Stand With Christ, Be With Christ Today
Posted by Danielle Bean in Faith on Friday, April 10, 2009
“So they took Jesus, and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called the place of a skull, which is called in Hebrew Golgotha. There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them.”
– John 19:17-18
Be with Christ today. Stand beside the cross and unite your sufferings with His. Compare your wounds with His and see that they are small, but give them to Him anyway. Compare your strength to His and see that you are weak, but give yourself to Him anyway. Walk with Him, bleed with Him, die with Him today.
More to read and pray and do today.
In Sharp Focus
Posted by Rachel Balducci in Family on Wednesday, April 08, 2009
Over at Via Media, Amy Welborn offers a transcript of Pope Benedict’s General Audience on the eve of Holy Thursday. Here he brings the coming days into a very clear and definitive focus.
A snippet:
Thus, Maundy Thursday constitutes a renewed invitation to give thanks to God for the supreme gift of the Eucharist, to be received with devotion and to be adored with sincere faith.
That is why, the Church... READ MORE
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