Two thousand residents of a village in the Bavarian Alps are currently performing almost every day a pageant depicting the suffering and death of Jesus Christ.
An April 3 reflection on the Stations of the Cross will invite faithful to see Jesus in those devastated by the ongoing Russian invasion, which has killed thousands and displaced millions.
Gina Christian
By Gina Christian • Posted April 1, 2021
After watching “The Passion of the Christ” with friends a few years back, I’d mentioned that in recent years I’d taken to reading a medical analysis of crucifixion during Holy Week.
One of the women in our group, shaken by the film’s graphic description of Jesus’ sufferings, looked at me in horror. “Why would you feel the need to do that?” she asked.
The question was a good one. Was it morbid curiosity that had prompted my research, an unholy reveling in shock and gore? Or was I looking to understand something that so many representations of the cross particularly those in modern times have failed to capture?
reenactment? with us now is professor brent strong, expert in theology at emory university and he s an ordained minister. brent, this gruesome story of crucifixion and resurrection, how does this apply to us today? right, well, easter is the celebration of christ resurrection, but it s intricately related to the story of christ s passion, culminating in his story on good friday. so in christian thought, these three days, good friday, and easter sunday are known as the three days. they go together. and it shows that easter celebration, as great as it is and as joyous as it is is not in denial of christ s suffering or real life and death matters, but really a conquering of that, so that easter is, you know, the fundamental christian miracle, the kind of sign of new life, unexpected hope. but hasn t easter sort of become commercialized. how about all the eggs and east bunny and candy peeps. how does that play into it? on the one hand, there s not