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The Good in Good Friday
Posted on April 7, 2023 Leave a Comment
On this Good Friday, my heart is heavy. It is so hard to see any good in this day. I close my eyes and I see our sweet Jesus. He was humiliated, ridiculed and mocked. He stood innocent, yet took our punishment to save us from certain death. Our sweet Jesus beaten and hung on […]
Silent Saturday
Posted on April 11, 2020 Leave a Comment
Silent Saturday. The day between Good Friday and Easter Sunday. When I think about this day and what it means, I think back on Jesus’ faithful followers. I try and put myself in their shoes. I think of their despair and what they must have been feeling. For them, all hope seemed lost- for just […]
The Good in Good Friday
Posted on April 19, 2019 Leave a Comment
Holy Week began last Sunday. The little girl in me remembers Catholic Palm Sunday masses filled with excitement and hope. The reminder that something big was coming. There were palms that we folded into crosses as we listened to the messages of our beloved sweet Jesus triumphantly riding into Jerusalem. On Monday, Notre Dame caught […]
What’s So “Good” about Good Friday?
Posted on April 18, 2014 Leave a Comment
Growing up, I never understood why they referred to today as “Good Friday”. How could it be good that a man was humiliated, beaten and then hung on a cross to die? The best explanation I have found comes from this blog. It explains “What is “Good” about Friday of this week is the payment for […]
Easter is more than white patent leather stiletto’s
Posted on March 29, 2013 Leave a Comment
Easter is so much more than Easter Bunnies, my white patent leather stiletto’s and Reece’s Peanut Butter Cup Eggs. Don’t get me wrong, bunnies are adorbs, I have a love affair with the shoes and Reece’s Eggs are so tantalizingly ahhmazing that it feels like my taste buds are being sprinkled with fairy dust and […]