A new command I give to you High Priests gather; darkness looms That you love as I’ve loved you Pilate’s wife now dreams… Love your enemies and pray Judas gives back bloody coins Blessed are the merciful The High Priests buy a field This is how all men will know Pilate struts; theContinue reading “Lent 44: Maundy Thursday”
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Lent 43: Wednesday of Holy Week
But listen as they question Him; listen as they plot and lie. Listen: by the fireside, Peter lies and cries. Watch as, dust, we crumble down; watch the Son of Man, betrayed, tell the truth, secure His death and die for dust He made. Has anything like this been seen? The eternalContinue reading “Lent 43: Wednesday of Holy Week”
Lent 42: Tuesday of Holy Week
Yet dust we are we cannot stay awake and pray (the flesh is weak) and dust we are we walk away and hide ourselves in dull deceit. And dust He is yet more than dust transfigured with the Father’s grief; our dust He takes up to the Cross and dies beside a thief.
Lent 41: Monday of Holy Week
And now we lift this bread, this wine born from dust, tilled in soil, fermented, kneaded, baked: now break this bread and rend your hearts, your hands. You look one to another, say, “Not I?” Yet surely you, before the night is done will swear you didContinue reading “Lent 41: Monday of Holy Week”
Lent 40: Palm Sunday
This is the day that the Lord has made: My soul is weary; my heart is faint. This is the righteous gate of the Lord: I hear the slander of many. The Lord has done this; it is marvellous to our eyes: My life is consumed in anguish. O Lord, saveContinue reading “Lent 40: Palm Sunday”
Lent 39: Saturday of Fifth Week
Sit with Him; eat with Him; dip the bread, by His side – Surely Lord not I? Walk with Him through olive trees; fall asleep and fail to pray; watch as one of you betrays – Surely Lord not I? Warm yourself by cosy fires; answer truth with spitting lies; listen as theContinue reading “Lent 39: Saturday of Fifth Week”
Lent 38: Friday of Fifth Week
Look: see the woman with her oil and hair; see His feet (they’re not yet scarred); see the gasp upon your face; see His searching eyes. Listen: He spoke to you of the Son of Man; He spoke of death and burial; He spoke of Passover, exodus; He spoke; you did not hear. Learn: HeContinue reading “Lent 38: Friday of Fifth Week”
Lay this body down… – Streaming Page CXVI’s “Good Friday to Easter” Day Three
What now? Death takes the best; the body droops upon the Cross. We look; the sting in eyes declares that all is done. It is finished. What? Are we done for, Lord? Where the hopes and fears of all the years, once met in You? Where now? All done? All done for? What next?Continue reading “Lay this body down… – Streaming Page CXVI’s “Good Friday to Easter” Day Three”
Lent 37: Thursday of Fifth Week
Look, the shepherd separates: sheep from goats He divides, bone and marrow He prises open, hearts’ deep secrets He dissects. Look, the true ones walk through streets and feed the poor. The children give their food to dogs, the princes clothe the naked… Look; deep inside, now look. Secret acts reveal ourContinue reading “Lent 37: Thursday of Fifth Week”
Go to Dark Gethsemane: Streaming Page CXVI’s “Good Friday to Easter” Day 2
First the garden. And this first betrayal: friends asleep when most needed; then – another in the wings, a kiss at the ready; a sword, the sternness of armies come to slay a spotless lamb. O Christ – I have not even a sword; only betrayers’ kisses heaped withContinue reading “Go to Dark Gethsemane: Streaming Page CXVI’s “Good Friday to Easter” Day 2″
The Consolations of Writing 