Sermon: C Good Friday 29 March 2013

Is 52:13-53.12; Ps 22; Heb 4:14-16; 5:7-9; JN 18:1-19:42

“It is finished.” Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. AMEN.

Again we hear the long, difficult narrative of Jesus’s death on a cross. Again we want to squirm away from it, and rush to celebrate what comes next. We need to make meaning, though, of this: Jesus died on a cross. He didn’t choose to die or die this way then, and yet he did. That in no way means he agreed or chose in a suicidal way to die. He kept on keeping on making the cross into an offer, and an act of solidarity.

Holy Week Service schedule

Maundy Thursday

Thursday, March 28 at 6:30 p.m.

Good Friday

Friday, March 29

Stations of the Cross at 12:15 p.m.

Good Friday Liturgy at 6:30 p.m.

The Great Vigil of Easter

Saturday, March 30 at 6:30 p.m.

Eucharist for Easter Day

Sunday, March 31 at 10:30 a.m.

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Church of St. John the Evangelist 

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Boston, MA 02114

Good Friday 6 April 2012

In the name of God, who created us from love saved AMEN.

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves, take up their cross and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it.”