7LW: Introduction

JMJ
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FOR LENT THIS YEAR, as I have done for Advent for most of the last 20 years, I will post a series of meditations on a regular schedule. The theme for this series is the Seven Last Words of Our Lord, spoken from the Cross on Good Friday. There is a menu at the bottom, along with a posting schedule: it starts on Sunday 28th February and runs until 30th March.

Everyone has their own Calvary: “Toiling up new Calv’ries ever / With the cross that turns not back” as the old hymn says. Jesus’ last words become our words as well. Let us see where this meditation takes us.

By the light of burning martyrs,
Jesus’ bleeding feet we track,
Toiling up new Calv’ries ever
With the cross that turns not back;
New occasions teach new duties,
Time makes ancient good uncouth;
They must upward still and onward,
Who would keep abreast of truth.

(I mean, it is Lent…)

• Introduction
• 2/28 Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.
• 3/5 Today you will be with me in paradise.
• 3/10 Woman, behold, thy son! Behold, thy mother!
• 3/15 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
• 3/20 I thirst.
• 3/25 It is finished.
• 3/30 Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit.