CROSS CONTROVERSY: Did God forsake Jesus?
NOTHING, it seems, escapes controversy. Even Jesus on the cross is not spared.
NOTHING, it seems, escapes controversy. Even Jesus on the cross is not spared.
Today we begin the solemn period of Holy Week with the Mass for the Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion. The beautiful readings lay out the story of God’s plan of salvation: Isaiah’s Song of the Suffering Servant and the ancient hymn of Christ’s kenosis, his emptying himself of his divinity, highlighting the power of the Passion narrative of Mark.
Your mantra for the week: “Praying and praising are one and the same.”
The Seventh Station (Jesus Falls the Second Time) is marked by two Franciscan chapels built on top of each other, with the lower chapel containing a large stone column from the Cardo Maximus, the main street during Byzantine Jerusalem, again a relic from the tortuous history of this most labyrinthine, byzantine of cities.
My spiritual director in the seminary once told me that sin is forgetfulness. Adam giving in to the temptation of eating the forbidden fruit was forgetting the rest of creation that God had given him to use for his needs, forgetting the generosity of a gracious God. Peter denying Christ forgets their three years of friendship and journeying together in mission.
Today we begin the Sunday readings for ordinary time in our new liturgical year. Thus, we also have the story of the beginning of Christ’s public ministry from the Gospel of St. Mark.
For nearly 2,000 years, Christians all over the world have been made to believe that there are only four Gospels about the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, namely: those written by the evangelists Luke, Mark, Matthew and John.
In 1991, David Stratman came out with the book “We Can Change the World: The Real Meaning in Everyday Life.”
As I expected, many readers reacted strongly to my column last week about the pagan origins of the Jesus story.
Who killed Jesus? If you use as reference the book “Awit at Salaysay ng Pasiong Mahal,” which is used in the “pabasa” (the chanting of the Passion story during
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