1. What Did Jesus Do For Us on His Last Days on The Earth?
When Jesus said from that cross in Calvary on Good Friday:
"It is all finished."
He has completed the redemption task he was entrusted to do. Jesus has paid for it all. He redeemed us from our sins. He made us children of
God. He has released us from the bondage of Satan.
Now we can claim our place he has prepared for us in heaven. ...
I. Good Friday in Church
2.
Bible Readings for Good Friday (March 25)
http://www.MalankaraWorld.com/Library/Lectionary/Lec_passion-Good-Friday.htm
3.
Sermons for Good Friday (March 25)
http://www.MalankaraWorld.com/Library/Sermons/Sermon-for-Passion-week_Good-Friday.htm
II. Gospel Saturday in Church
4.
Bible Readings for Gospel Saturday (March 26)
http://www.MalankaraWorld.com/Library/Lectionary/Lec_passion-Holy-saturday.htm
5.
Sermons for Gospel Saturday (March 26)
http://www.MalankaraWorld.com/Library/Sermons/Sermon-for-Passion-week_Saturday.htm
6. Malankara World Journal Specials on Good Friday and Gospel Saturday
7.
Malankara World Passion Week Supplement
Malankara World has a supplement that
provides detailed information about Passion Week including articles, prayers,
sermons, etc. You will find it here:
Passion Week Supplement in Malankara World
http://www.MalankaraWorld.com/Library/Lent/Passion/Default.htm
Malankara World has developed a daily plan of bible
readings, meditations, reflections, and prayers for Passion Week.
You will find it here:
Today in Passion Week
http://www.MalankaraWorld.com/Library/Lent/Passion/ Passion_Today_archives.htm
III. Featured Articles on Good Friday
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Inspiration: Love and Joy Perfected
This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his
friends. ...
9.
How Jesus Faced His Friday
Everyone struggled on crucifixion Friday: The disciples struggled to keep faith.
Pilate struggled to save face. Faithful women struggled to help Jesus. Pharisees
struggled to discredit Jesus. Soldiers struggled to hurt Jesus. But no one
struggled more than Jesus. ...
10.
Surrender at Gethsemane
Have you ever felt lonely? Have you ever felt as though your friends and family
had abandoned you? Have you ever felt like you were misunderstood? Have you ever
had a hard time understanding or submitting to the will of God for your life?
If so, then you have an idea of what the Lord Jesus went through as He agonized
at Gethsemane. ...
11.
Good Friday Reflections - Nakedness Part 1: At The Garden
One of the most profound subtexts and themes, which runs through both the gospel
texts and the experience of the Christian life, is that of nakedness and
vulnerability. We are rarely comfortable with ourselves, with our own nakedness,
never mind our nakedness in the public sphere....
12.
Good Friday Reflections - Nakedness Part 2: Jesus on The Way to Calvary To Be Crucified
In front of the whole crowd of jeering, jibing soldiers, Jesus is stripped,
naked and bruised. The level of a human's humiliation has never gone this
far before. In their abhorrence of nakedness, they decide to humiliate Jesus
by making Him the object of their hate. ...
13.
Good Friday Reflections - Nakedness Part 3: Jesus on The Cross
Like so many dying people their worry and their pain is for those who are
left behind. In the pain of a mother's grief at the unnatural and
heartbreaking reality of losing a child, Mary stands beside us, sheltering
us from the pain and fear of naked vulnerability. ...
14.
Good Friday in Seven Good Words
A close look at Christ's seven final sayings from the cross clearly explains why
there's so much "good" in "Good Friday." ...
15.
The Day God Died: 'Crucified, Died'
The Apostles' Creed contains four phrases that refer to the death of Jesus
Christ:
Crucified,
Died,
Buried,
Descended into Hell.
Why are six
words used to describe the death of Christ when one would have told the story -
"died." ....
16.
The Crucifixion
The last words on that last day of his natural human life were the most
important: "It is finished!" (John 19:30).
That was not a cry of resignation, nor capitulation or surrender. It was a shout
of victory that all that God had planned for the restoration of sinful human
beings was now accomplished. ...
IV. Featured Articles on Gospel Saturday
17.
Holy Saturday: He Descended into Hell
Something strange is happening - there is a great silence on earth today, a
great silence and stillness. The whole earth keeps silence because the King is
asleep. The earth trembled and is still because God has fallen asleep in the
flesh and he has raised up all who have slept ever since the world began. God
has died in the flesh and hell trembles with fear. ...
18.
Where Is Jesus Between His Death and Resurrection?
Where is Christ after He dies on Friday afternoon and before He rises on
Easter Sunday? Both Scripture and Tradition answer this question. ...Jesus did not descend into hell to deliver the damned, nor to destroy the hell
of damnation, but to free the just who had gone before him. ...
19.
The Silence of Saturday
Silent Saturdays. The day between the struggle and the solution; the question
and the answer; the offered prayer and the answer thereof. Saturday's silence
torments us. Is God angry? Did I disappoint him? ...
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