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Post by Santa on Mar 25, 2018 22:44:25 GMT -5
Wishing everyone a Blessed Holy Week as we approach the celebration of the Crucifixion and Resurrection.
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Post by timothyu on Mar 26, 2018 17:26:05 GMT -5
The same for you and yours Santa and for all that this week plays a significant part in their faith.
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Post by guitarman on Mar 28, 2018 19:54:32 GMT -5
Resurrection (Passover) is my favorite holiday. Such amazing love demonstrated by the Lord. One of my favorite scripture for this Holy Week is:
Hebrews 12:1-5 (NIV) Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart. In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.
And in The Message Bible, it's translated this way:
Do you see what this means—all these pioneers who blazed the way, all these veterans cheering us on? It means we’d better get on with it. Strip down, start running—and never quit! No extra spiritual fat, no parasitic sins. Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both began and finished this race we’re in. Study how he did it. Because he never lost sight of where he was headed—that exhilarating finish in and with God—he could put up with anything along the way: Cross, shame, whatever. And now he’s there, in the place of honor, right alongside God. When you find yourselves flagging in your faith, go over that story again, item by item, that long litany of hostility he plowed through. That will shoot adrenaline into your souls!
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Post by timothyu on Mar 28, 2018 20:13:44 GMT -5
It will remind you there is no throne for us, the goal for mankind being the Kingdom, a world upside down to man's and one that requires rejection of the way's of man for those of God who commanded that we love neighbour/enemy as self. Being hated for rejecting the self serving will and institutions of mankind which are the secular traditional common everyday life of mankind.
THERE is the 'long litany of hostility' that He ploughed through.
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Post by Santa on Mar 29, 2018 23:32:28 GMT -5
Went to Mass at St. Amant Centre for Holy Thursday. Always very moving to witness the simple faith of folks with disabilities.
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Post by soutxed on Mar 30, 2018 13:59:08 GMT -5
Came from Good Friday service in the UMC. What does Good Friday mean to you?
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Post by Naked Driver on Mar 30, 2018 23:34:06 GMT -5
Came from Good Friday service in the UMC. What does Good Friday mean to you? ə good friday for me is our way of the cross walk through downtown, and i carry the cross now and then. this year i shot video of it, but have yet to post them to youtube. in the evening i attended our tenebrae (service of darkness) which we observe by reading the story of the crucifixion in john 18-19 and after each paragraph either a candle is extinguished (or maybe a light turned out) or something removed from the pulpit, chancel, lectern, or altar. the purple parements are replaced by black in this time. at the end, all candles are gone and the sanctuary is dark. my holy week went thus: palm sunday, service of the palms in the morning and the procession for peace in the afternoon. wed. was a soup meal followed by a study of the messiah oratorio and how it related to the bible, which began feb 21 and ended this week. (for those who are familiar with messiah, part of it relates to advent, and we had a study then for that part.) then came maundy thursday service with communion, to which i biked (as i did for the walk today). i have little planned for tomorrow. easter will see me go to breakfast with a friend, then a pre-service concert, then the service. we may go out to eat afterward. holy week is always busy for me, but also the most significant one in the liturgical calendar. may you all have a blessed one! ə
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Post by timothyu on Mar 31, 2018 1:14:09 GMT -5
Well... Good Friday is over with the usually sorrow for what befell Jesus and the thanking of Him for what He went through.
Not once as usual did I hear anyone, Christian or non, exclaim in a repentant voice what a horrible self serving species we are for nailing Him up in the first place. It's easy to say, oh I would never do that, let's blame the Romans or the Jews. But at the same time we humans for the most part, support a system of man that would do that, even today.
Jesus represented a world opposite to what we would call our own. Jesus died, God knowing full well from the start, that man would never allow an upside down world to the one man has created to come into existence. We the people can't even get along with each other let alone a man who comes and tells the whole world they have it backwards. The Romans and even Herod Jr. thought His notion was too foolish to even consider as a threat, power is arrogance. The Pharisees knew He was right according to scripture, yet they to cherished their power more. Christianity today would do the same. Jesus was a radical, subversive to man's world.
Even on a small scale it created enough of an issue with the clergy to have Him executed. Christians are more concerned about the me me rewards of resurrection on Sunday than taking responsibility for killing the Messiah in the first place, Responsible then and today as supporters of a world built upon self interest, self justification of deeds and gain at the expense of others.
Without repentance of that way of thinking and living, what happens on Sunday is of no concern to them who fail to take responsibility for the condition of the world. We can't fix it but we can reject it, hate it for what it is. Jesus said so, but it looks like a great many missed the memo.
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Post by timothyu on Mar 31, 2018 2:26:16 GMT -5
Pope Francis apologizes for the greed of man. Is repentance saying sorry or is it about change? link
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Post by timothyu on Apr 1, 2018 4:13:08 GMT -5
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Post by RNorm on Apr 1, 2018 9:52:51 GMT -5
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Post by Naked Driver on Apr 1, 2018 18:25:34 GMT -5
ə the service today was stupendous. the only dampening factor was the weather! whoever heard of it being minus five degrees easter morning?! (it is now around one, so we did go over freezing.) my friend and i enjoyed it immensely. we have yet to see spring here! ə
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Post by Naked Driver on Mar 4, 2019 22:08:59 GMT -5
ə well, holy week 2019 is a ways off, but shrove tuesday is tomorrow and then ash wednesday. may all of you have a blessed lenten season! ə
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2019 6:59:46 GMT -5
Corpus Christi Celebrated today.
Also known as Day of Wreaths and Feast of the Most Holy Body.
Observed 60 days after Easter.
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