{"id":528,"date":"2011-04-22T08:11:47","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T15:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/?p=528"},"modified":"2012-05-18T08:03:34","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T15:03:34","slug":"god-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/god-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"God is Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

T<\/span>oday is Good Friday<\/a>: the commemoration of the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ at Calvary.<\/p>\n

Behold the wood of the cross, on which has hung our salvation: come let us adore. <\/p>\n

(Liturgy of the Lord\u2019s Passion)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Ecce homo: Behold, the man<\/p><\/div>He was condemned by his own people, abandoned by his friends, sentenced to death by the Roman Prefect of Judea, Pontius Pilate. <\/p>\n

He was scourged, mocked, crowned with thorns, and ultimately suffered the most brutal death that the genius of Imperial Rome had devised.<\/p>\n

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It is finished.<\/p><\/div>\n

And why? I have written elsewhere on the Atonement<\/a>, but the Catechism simply says this:<\/p>\n

Justification has been merited for us by the Passion of Christ who offered himself on the cross as a living victim, holy and pleasing to God, and whose blood has become the instrument of atonement for the sins of all men. (CCC 1992)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is based on the words of Saint Paul: \u201c[Believers] are justified freely by God\u2019s grace through the redemption in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as an expiation, through faith, by his blood\u2026” (Romans 3:24-25)<\/p>\n

He died for us. We killed him, and he died for us.<\/p>\n

All over the world, Good Friday services begin at 3:00PM local time, the hour of Christ’s death. From that moment until the Resurrection on Easter morning, in some true sense, God was dead.<\/p>\n