Monthly Archives: April 2023

Monday of Holy Week

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He said this not because he cared about the poor.
But because he was a thief.
This passion story cuts us to our core.
We feel that from this despair there can be no relief.

So I went to hear Rachmaninoff’s Vespers.
The music rang out in the church of the Temple.
Sung in Russian , the meaning became clear only  in whispers.
But emotion still did tremble .

Really the vespers  is better with men’s bases.
In  the Spiritual atmosphere of an orthodox service.
Giving us ever greater graces.
Digging below the material surface.

But the music lifts you to another plane.
Propelling is into the spiritual fast lane .

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The vespers  music
Of Rachmaninoff rang out
Soothingly intense

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See John 12 : 1-11

Palm Sunday

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They bought the potter’s field with it as a graveyard.
And to this day it is called the field of blood today
And thus even to this day we are scarred..
Even obscuring to our eyes the sun’s ray .

But to today I went to a baptism .
With new life and hope arising.
Thus anointed with holy chrism.
And a new Christian arriving.

Christ came into Jerusalem to welcome shouts proclaiming.
But days later he was mocked and crucified.
And thus hope is constantly rising and falling.
And then once again rekindled.

And thus we can always hope in the future
And never despair about past and future.

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Hope rises and falls
Then rises again once more
An endless cycle

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See Matthew 26 : 14-26 , 66

Saturday of the 5 th week of Lent

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It is better for one man to die for the people.
Than for the whole nation to be destroyed.
And thus was sacrificed something truly regal.
But in the end the people stared into the void.

Does the end justify the means.
Can a man be sacrificed for the greater good.
This is the way perhaps of kings and queens.
But  surely we will never do this, touchwood.

What do you think.
Will he come to the festival or not.
Jesus came to prove he is the link.
And thus he never is forgot.

In the end he came .
Evil to tame.

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One man has to die
So that the people may not
But is that correct

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See John 11 : 45-56