Prayers & Readings from
Liberti Church’s Lent & Easter Prayerbook
My help comes from the LORD,
who made heaven and earth.
–from Psalm 121.2
~silence~
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Prayers & Readings from
Liberti Church’s Lent & Easter Prayerbook
My help comes from the LORD,
who made heaven and earth.
–from Psalm 121.2
~silence~
Luke 24.44-49 (msg) Continue reading
Prayers & Readings from
Liberti Church’s Lent & Easter Prayerbook
My help comes from the LORD,
who made heaven and earth.
–from Psalm 121.2
~silence~
Luke 24.36-43 (msg) Continue reading
Prayers & Readings from
Liberti Church’s Lent & Easter Prayerbook
My help comes from the LORD,
who made heaven and earth.
–from Psalm 121.2
~silence~
Luke 24.1-12 (msg) Continue reading
It’s uncontrollable!
And my person
is
barely even
knowable
But it is.
By joy
satisfaction
contentment
You.
From Liberti Church’s Lent & Easter Prayerbook
On the seventh day God rested
in the darkness of the tomb;
Having finished on the sixth day
all his work of joy and doom.
Now the Word had fallen silent,
and the water had run dry,
The bread had all been broken,
and the light had left the sky;
The flock had lost its shepherd,
and the seed was sadly sown,
The courtiers had betrayed their king,
and nailed him to his throne.
O sabbath rest by Calvary,
O calm of tomb below,
Where the grave-clothes and the spices
cradle him we did not know!
Rest you well, beloved Jesus:
Caesar’s Lord and Israel’s King,
In the brooding of the Spirit,
in the darkness of the spring.
~give time for silence, prayer, & meditation~
Welcome, hello
Come in.
Take your shoes off
Set down your suitcase
And hang your jacket
Enjoy the fire; enjoy the tea
Rock the chair, back and forth
That’s all you can do right now.
Rest.
Your items will still be there when it’s done.
Your shoes–
the mud will be dry, they’ll feel like new
to aid you on your way
Your suitcase–
is not all that important, frankly
take it or leave it
it doesn’t do much
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Pierced–
Not of flesh nor will of man
But of heart by will of Him.
Deep within a shot was cast and burrowed in the bow
The fine line of ecstasy and horror homoousion‘d among
And within
Obedience was found on worthy lips, blessing bestowed for ages come.
Yet the blessing’s joy was found as a bell in the mist,
Meaning: it was not.
Until the rocks came.
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From Liberti Church’s Lent & Easter Prayerbook
Go to dark Gethsemane,
You who feel the tempter’s pow’r;
Your Redeemer’s conflict see;
Watch with him one bitter hour;
Turn not from his grief away;
Learn of Jesus Christ to pray
Learn of Jesus Christ to pray.
Follow to the judgment hall;
View the Lord of life arraigned;
O the worm-wood and the gall!
O the pangs his soul sustained!
Shun not suff-ring, shame, or loss;
Learn of him to bear the cross
Learn of him to bear the cross.
Calv’ry’s mournful mountain climb
There adoring at his feet,
Mark the miracle of time,
God’s own sacrifice complete:
“It is finished!” Hear the cry;
Learn of Jesus Christ to die
Learn of Jesus Christ to die.
~give time for silence, prayer, & meditation~
“Yes
it is time
to think about Christ
again.
I keep putting it off.”
Longing and lusting
Raging and seizing
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Prayers & Readings from
Liberti Church’s Lent & Easter Prayerbook
My help comes from the LORD,
who made heaven and earth.
–from Psalm 121.2
~silence~
Luke 22.14-38 (msg) Continue reading
Prayers & Readings from
Liberti Church’s Lent & Easter Prayerbook
My help comes from the LORD,
who made heaven and earth.
–from Psalm 121.2
~silence~
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Prayers & Readings from
Liberti Church’s Lent & Easter Prayerbook
My help comes from the LORD,
who made heaven and earth.
–from Psalm 121.2
~silence~
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Prayers & Readings from
Liberti Church’s Lent & Easter Prayerbook
My help comes from the LORD,
who made heaven and earth.
–from Psalm 121.2
~silence~
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This past Sunday was Palm Sunday, the Christian holiday that ushers in Holy Week. It celebrates the “triumphal entry” of Jesus into Jerusalem (Mk 11:1-11). In hindsight, though, this is one of the oddest “triumphal entries” one could imagine. It is the triumphal kick-off for what would be the death of the Son of God for the sins of the world.
Even now, millennia removed from the events of this week, we still wonder at how this all works. How does one person’s death–however good they are–account for every sin of every human in all of history?
It only begins to make some sort of sense when we acknowledge that this great exchange is not between to equals. Jesus, the Good and Innocent human, cannot merely be “another man” dying for another.
