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Chargement... Three Hours: Sermons for Good Fridaypar Fleming Rutledge
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On Good Friday, March 30, 2018, Fleming Rutledge preached on the Seven Last Words of Jesus at St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, New York City. Her seven meditations, delivered over the course of three hours, were met with rave reviews. Printed in full in this volume, these sermons display Rutledge's usual combination of resolute orthodoxy and pastoral wisdom--at once traditional and fresh. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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One of the ways churches have remembered the death of Christ on the cross on what is called Good Friday is through a three hour service from noon until 3 pm, usually organized around the seven "words" of Jesus from the cross, interspersed with liturgy, hymns, prayers, and silence.
Fleming Rutledge gave seven meditations on these "seven last words" at St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, New York City on Good Friday, March 30, 2018. These meditations were published, with little alteration earlier this year, and served as my own Good Friday meditations this past Friday.
Each of these short meditations left me with a thought for reflection. This may or may not have been Rutledge's focus, but I share these as much to capture them for myself, as well as to give you a taste of what is here. There is much more to each short meditation than my summary thought!
Luke 23:32-34. "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do." What about those who know what they are doing, as is the case for all of us at times? Christ is the one who died to justify the ungodly!
Luke 23:39-43. "Verily, I say unto thee, Today thou shalt be with me in paradise." We speculate much about the afterlife. We focus little on what it means when Jesus says that it will be "with him." "In his presence is fullness of joy!"
John 19: 26-27. "Woman, behold thy son!...Behold thy mother!" Two unrelated believers become kin. "There is no other way to be a disciple of Jesus than to be in communion with other disciples of Jesus" (p, 32).
Matthew 27:45-46. "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" Jesus "steered toward the pain" and plumbed the very bottom of despair and alienation as he "became sin" and surrendered to Death. This is the one who has defeated Death and Hell, whose love, nothing can separate us from.
John 19:28-29. "I thirst." Water is life. Living water is nothing less than real water--the water from Jesus side along with his life-giving blood. The one who thirsted now says, "come to the water."
John 19:29-30. "It is finished." Rutledge writes, "The crucifixion is not just an unfortunate thing that happened to Jesus on his way to the resurrection. It is not a momentary blip on the arc of his ascent to the Father. John tells us otherwise. It is precisely on the cross that the work of Jesus is carried through to its completion" (p. 67). Tetelestai!
Luke 23:44-46. "Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit." In Flannery O'Connor's words quoted here, "The creative action of the Christian's life is to prepare his death in Christ." We each may commend our lives to the Father through this Son.
It was the reading of Rutledge's magnificent study on the crucifixion (review) that prompted me to buy this book. In much briefer form, I found the same depth of thoughtfulness, and elegance and economy of words. More than this, I was led to meditate through the Seven Words on the meaning of the cross--who Christ died for, the community Christ established, the hope of being "with him," and the cross as the consummation of Christ's work. I found myself stopping again and again and saying, "Hallelujah, what a Savior!"
This review comes too late for you to read this on Good Friday in 2019. But it is far from too late to acquire and read this book, particularly if you rushed through Passion Week preparing for Easter, or to have on hand for next year. This book will bear multiple readings and I look forward to returning to it again and again. ( )