{"id":90916,"date":"2019-04-19T07:45:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T14:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/?p=90916"},"modified":"2019-04-18T16:48:19","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T23:48:19","slug":"2019-good-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/2019-good-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Friday: God is Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

Ecce lignum Crucis, in quo salus mundi pep\u00e9ndit. Ven\u00edte ador\u00e9mus.<\/p>

Behold the wood of the Cross, on which hung the salvation of the world. Come let us adore.<\/p>

(Missale Romanum:<\/em> Friday of the Passion of the Lord)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Ecce homo: Behold, the man<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n


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

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It is finished.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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

1992<\/strong><\/a> 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\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\n\n\n

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

All over the world, Good Friday services begin at 3:00 PM local time, the hour of Christ’s death. Some churches will begin the Good Friday Liturgy then, and some (like ours) will begin the Way of the Cross.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Either way, from that moment until the Resurrection on Easter morning, in some true sense, God was dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n