For God.

When Jesus saw that everything that was in the scripture was fulfilled, He said :"I thirst." There was a container of wine with hyssop. The soldier then took a sponge and filled it with wine, and brought it to Jesus' mouth. He drank it and said: :"it is finished". Then bowing his head, He gave up his spirit.


So there was the triumph of Jesus over death.

Dying he destroyed our death, rising he restored our lives.

The day before, Jesus washed the feet of his disciples...

The Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to seek and bring back those who are lost.

"I, your Lord and Master, have become your servant. I who made the moon and stars, will kneel to wash your feet.
This, is my commandment: to love as I have loved you. Kneel, to wash each other's feet, as i have done for you."




I still remember...


His glorious entry into Jerusalem...The crowd was cheering, making a path for him, waving palms saying :" Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord"

Yet, it is the same crowd on Good Friday who handed him over shouting :' Crucify him, crucify him!"

The pure irony of it.

He who was among the people, preaching to them, persuading them to repent and turn away from their sins, creating miracles in the very eyes of those who did not believe Him, who came from the Father.

They revolted, making a crown of thorns and placed it over his head. Spitting at him, whipping him, beating him, carrying the cross that beared the sins of the world.

Why...

Why did he have to die...

Why did he even sacrifice himself...

Why

We rode into town the other day

Just me and my daddy

He said that I'd finally reached that age,

and I could ride...

Next to him on a horse

and of course was not quite as wild

We heard a crowd of people shouting

and so we stopped, to find out why

and there was that man

that my dad said he loved,

but today there was fear in his eyes...

So I said:'Daddy why are they screaming

Why are the faces of some of them beaming

Why is he dressed in that bright purple robe

I'll bet that crown hurts him more than it shows

Daddy please, can't you do something

he looks as though he's gonna cry

You said he was stronger than all of those guys

Daddy please tell me why

Why does everyone want him to die

Later that day, the sky grew cloudy

and Daddy said I should go inside

Somehow he knew things would get stormy

Boy was he right

But i could not keep from wondering if there was something he had to hide

So after he left,

I had to find out,

I was not afraid of getting lost.

So I followed the crowds,

To a hill where I know men had been killed

And I heard a voice come from the cross.

And it said:"Father why are they screaming

Why are the faces of some of them beaming

Why are they casting their lots for my robes

This crown of thorns hurts me more than it shows

Father please, can't You do something?

I know that You must hear my cry,

I thought I could handle a cross of this size

Father, remind me why,

Why does everyone want me to die?

Oh, when will I understand why?

"My precious Son, I hear them screaming

I'm watching the face of the enemy beaming

But soon I will clothe You in robes of my own

Jesus this hurts me much more than You know

But this dark hour, I must do nothing

Though I've heard your unbearable cry..

The power in Your blood destroys all of their lies

Soon You'll see past their unmerciful eyes

Look there beloved, see the child

Trembling by her father's side

Now I can tell You why

She, is why You must die.

The sacrifices we have made for Holy Week, now seem so trivial to the sufferings he beared,

Christ became obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.


What more for us...