Holy Week – Apprentice 2 Jesus

Holy Week Reminder

A tweet from Ben Cramer (who I don’t know but this is really good): We want the war horseJesus rides a donkey.

We are about to enter Holy Week in the Church. This marks the most powerful week to commemorate in the life of the Church. It is time to follow him into the hardest places to find the deepest power. It it time to sit with him as he looks over the city of Jerusalem andContinue reading “Holy Week”

Idolatry

In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:Who, being in very nature God,did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;rather, he made himself nothingby taking the very nature of a servant,being made in human likeness.And being found in appearance as a man,he humbled himselfbyContinue reading “Idolatry”

The day the revolution began

I wrote some thoughts on this Good Friday about why I stay in faith. I needed to reflect on all of this in a time when it’s truly a temptation to “walk away.” Why do I stay? I didn’t want to wreck the format of copying and pasting, which often gets messed up, so IContinue reading “The day the revolution began”

The beauty of Maundy Thursday

Almighty Father, whose dear Son, on the night before he suffered, instituted the Sacrament of his Body and Blood: Mercifully grant that we may receive it thankfully in remembrance of Jesus Christ our Lord, who in these holy mysteries gives us a pledge of eternal life; and who lives and reigns with you and theContinue reading “The beauty of Maundy Thursday”

The rhythm of prayer in Holy Week

Prayers for Tuesday of Holy Week: God of such unwavering love,how do I “celebrate”the passion and death of Jesus?I often want to look the other wayand not watch,not stay with Jesus in his suffering.Give me the strengthto see his love with honesty and compassionand to feel deeplyyour own forgiveness and mercy for me.Help me toContinue reading “The rhythm of prayer in Holy Week”

Maundy Thursday prayers

Almighty Father, whose most dear Son, on the night before he suffered, instituted the Sacrament of his Body and Blood: Mercifully grant that we may receive it in thankful remembrance of Jesus Christ our Savior, who in these holy mysteries gives us a pledge of eternal life; and who lives and reigns with you andContinue reading “Maundy Thursday prayers”

Living the memory of Christ in the present tense

“The church at Corinth is not called to pious, romantic, goosey religion but simply to practice the memory of Jesus and to let that memory be fully present tense… Christians sort these matters out around Jesus, because we are endlessly seduced by imagining the glory is to be found in our technology, in our brightness,Continue reading “Living the memory of Christ in the present tense”

Holy Saturday

Lamentations 3:37-58 37 Who can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not decreed it? 38 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that both calamities and good things come? 39 Why should the living complain when punished for their sins?

Prayer for Maundy Thursday

Almighty Father, whose dear Son, on the night before he suffered, instituted the Sacrament of his Body and Blood: Mercifully grant that we may receive it thankfully in remembrance of Jesus Christ our Lord, who in these holy mysteries gives us a pledge of eternal life; and who now lives and reigns with you andContinue reading “Prayer for Maundy Thursday”