Blessed Good Friday (and Passover)
Today the world's billion-plus Christians commemorate the ultimate sacrifice paid by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ some 1 973 years ago. For those who aren't familiar with the story, today's liturgy can be found here (I'm actually a mainline Protestant, but I went to a Catholic high school and Catholicism is the Body of Christ's largest part).
It's no coincidence that Holy Week typically falls within the same general time as Passover. In anticipation of Christ's deliverance of humanity from the bondage of sin at His death and subsequent resurrection, God through Moses delivered the Israelites from second-class citizenship in Egypt. As Christians celebrate Holy Week, we should remember our entire salvation history and remember that it was our Jewish brothers and sisters' (not the least of whom was Jesus Himself) openness to God which made it all possible.
It's no coincidence that Holy Week typically falls within the same general time as Passover. In anticipation of Christ's deliverance of humanity from the bondage of sin at His death and subsequent resurrection, God through Moses delivered the Israelites from second-class citizenship in Egypt. As Christians celebrate Holy Week, we should remember our entire salvation history and remember that it was our Jewish brothers and sisters' (not the least of whom was Jesus Himself) openness to God which made it all possible.
posted by E. J. Neafsey | 11:03
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