It is our whole faith that by His own death Christ changed the very nature of death, made it a passage—a ‘passover,’ a ‘Pascha’—into the Kingdom of God. Alexander Schmemann, quoted in Matthew Levering, Jesus and the Demise of Death: Resurrection, Afterlife, and the Fate of the Christian
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Tagged: Bohemian Rhapsody, Passover, Video
And because [the children of Jacob] were greatly afflicted and oppressed in a cruel slavery, and they groaned and cried to God, the God of the patriarchs, of Abraham, of Isaac and of Jacob, He led them out of Egypt by the hand of Moses and Aaron, striking the Egyptians with ten plagues, sending, in the last plague, a slaughtering angel, slaying their first-born, from man even unto beast. He saved the sons of Israel from this, revealing in a mystery the Passion of Christ, by the slaughtering of a spotless lamb and by its blood given to be smeared on the houses of the Hebrews as a guard of invulnerability: the name of this mystery is the Pasch, source of liberation. –Irenaeus, On…
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The words of the great Swedish bishop Bo Giertz damn us all: “There are no worthy guests at the Lord’s table. None has deserved to come.” Those words damn us all – yet they are also filled with grace. For tonight we are invited guests to the Lord’s table, despite our unworthiness. This is not my table or your table, my meal or your meal, but it belongs to our Lord, and we are unfit to come.
Tagged: Bo Giertz, Holy Thursday, Holy Week, Lent, Lord's Supper, Passover, Thomas Aquinas