Yesterday afternoon we left the church in sadness, but in knowledge that Jesus had taken the pain and suffering of the world to Himself so that He could transform it and lead us to glory. Tonight we have gone back over the story of God’s people which led to the coming of Christ so that [...]
Every year in Holy Week we hear two lengthy accounts of Jesus’ passion. On Palm Sunday one of the first three Gospel narratives is proclaimed. On Good Friday we always hear the passion according St. John. It contrasts strongly with the versions read on Palm Sunday. Each story in what we call the synoptic Gospels [...]
Central to the story of the people of the Old Testament was their liberation from slavery and their ritual celebration of this each year at the feast of Passover. It was that occasion which Jesus used to inaugurate the new covenant He was to establish – a covenant that would completely transform our understanding as [...]
