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           Reflection: Read the selected passage again. Let them sink in.
           Shocking. Incredible. God crucified God’s perfect son, hung with
           the worst of criminals.


           Prayer:
           Father, what love is this of His?
           What love is this of Yours
           that His dying love reflects?
           Your forgiveness for me,
           as we gaze upon His sacrificial death,
           is a truly undeserved gift
           as the pardon He spoke of to the dying thief.
           It is mine if I will only receive:
           “He was wounded for my transgressions. He was brusied for our
           iniquity. (Isaiah 53:5)”
           Amen.

           Activity:

           This was God’s way. Death for our life. Do you remember the
           story of the woman who anointed Jesus with perfume? Jesus said
           she was preparing him for his burial. Spices for death. Imagine the
           perfume smell of God’s love that washes over you. The death we
           celebrate today is sweet as well as bitter. Reflect.


           Good Friday Stations of the Cross

           Station Seven

           Jesus dies on the cross



           Reading: Luke 23:44-49 (read entire passage)
           44  It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land
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           until three in the afternoon,  while the sun’s light failed; and the
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           curtain of the temple was torn in two.  Then Jesus, crying with a
           loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.”
           Having said this, he breathed his last.



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