a quiet death (Good Friday sermon)

We began this Holy Week thinking about crowds. The crowds that followed Jesus, shouting Hosanna in the Highest, and waving palm branches. A crowd, that, as Fr. Noah pointed out, so quickly changed from “Hosanna” to “Crucify him”—a crowd caught up in the energy of celebration which quickly turns to discontent. A crowd that follows Jesus,…

Who could have imagined this future? (Good Friday Sermon)

https://youtu.be/QVPLfTLhn0g “He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,yet he did not open his mouth;like a lamb that is led to the slaughter,and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,so he did not open his mouth.By a perversion of justice he was taken away.Who could have imagined his future?”Isaiah 53:7-8 Who could have imagined…