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W e e k S i x

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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