Tag: death

  • Another Day of Silence at the Grave of a Loved One

    It’s a familiar scene — loved ones mourning their loss in silence once the dead body can no longer be embraced by eyes or arms. All that remains are our fleeting memories of a life which has passed into lifeless dust. I have been there. Likely you have as well. It happens that the Beloved…

    3 crosses, cave tomb with stone rolled away
  • A Day of the silence of the Passover Lamb

    The Son of Man is Slain From the day the Son of Man is delivered into the world and laid in a manger the shadow of the Cross foretold Christ’s Sacrifice. And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full…

    for Christ our Passover Lamb is sacrificed for us
  • It is finished.. + Death’s witnesses

    The Sorrow of Souls Severed from each other Have you experienced it — the death of a loved one? Death pierces the flesh of those left to mourning in unspeakable ways, but most of all it severs from our soul that of another to which we have clung. Having breathed His last some time before,…

    body of Jesus outside tomb of Joseph with others