Biblical Stations of the Cross Opening prayer: God of power and mercy,in love you sent your Sonthat we might be cleansed of sinand live with you forever.Bless us as we gather to reflecton his suffering and deaththat we may learn from his examplethe way we should go. We ask this through that same Christ, our …
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Station IV: Peter denies Jesus
Biblical Stations of the Cross Opening prayer: God of power and mercy,in love you sent your Sonthat we might be cleansed of sinand live with you forever.Bless us as we gather to reflecton his suffering and deaththat we may learn from his examplethe way we should go. We ask this through that same Christ, our …
Station III: Jesus is condemned
Biblical Stations of the Cross Opening prayer: God of power and mercy,in love you sent your Sonthat we might be cleansed of sinand live with you forever.Bless us as we gather to reflecton his suffering and deaththat we may learn from his examplethe way we should go. We ask this through that same Christ, our …
Station II: Jesus is arrested
Biblical Stations of the Cross Opening prayer: God of power and mercy,in love you sent your Sonthat we might be cleansed of sinand live with you forever.Bless us as we gather to reflecton his suffering and deaththat we may learn from his examplethe way we should go. We ask this through that same Christ, our …
Temptation
Lent 2024 I've written about the temptations of Jesus before, in a post from 12th March 2019. In the former post, I focused on the three times Jesus was led in the passage, the first was the Holy Spirit who led Jesus into the desert. The other two were the devil that led Jesus: Jesus …
Station I: Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane
Biblical Stations of the Cross Opening prayer: God of power and mercy,in love you sent your Sonthat we might be cleansed of sinand live with you forever.Bless us as we gather to reflecton his suffering and deaththat we may learn from his examplethe way we should go. We ask this through that same Christ, our …
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Biblical Stations of the Cross
Lent 2024 - Introduction The Stations of the Cross is a thing in the Catholic Church where you think about Jesus from when he got in trouble to when he was buried. Usually, you see it in churches as a bunch of small numbered spots on the wall (sometimes there's one more that shows Jesus …
God is wisdom, fear her—Psalm 111
The Fifth Book of Psalms kicked off with an awesome song of thankfulness. Then we've got three songs credited to David, followed by a bunch of eight anonymous psalms of praise. This is the first of these. They take us all the way to that epic love song to God's word, great in more ways …
Baptism
Pre-Lent 2024 I am posting this on the wrong liturgical day, rather than feast of the baptism of Jesus on January 8th. I decided to wait. Mainly because it would be further from the Epiphany, the second part of my look at the Godhead and humanity being entwined in Jesus, and also because Jesus' baptism …
Thanks—Psalm 107
Book 5 of the Psalms, comprising Psalms 107 to 150, opens with a glorious song of gratitude and concludes with five exuberant hymns of praise. This section starts off on an exceptionally positive note, as it overflows with expressions of thankfulness for the numerous ways in which God lavishes His blessings upon us. From start …
Making an ass of myself 