Here are the Good Friday addresses which I preached with the Rev Cedric Blakey today.
4 responses to “That Damn Magnificat”
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We don’t get a word, as the mother of one son, a miracle having been told early in my adult life there would be no babies, a son arrived. No words would have been possible, having nurtured, taught, loved, HOW, HOW, HOW has it come to this. Yet all His life she had known He was different, witness the wedding wine, only His mother could have asked for the miracle, because she knew !!!and maybe always knew it could not end well so stood in speechless sorrow lest she scream out.
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Thanks so much for this! I watched the video version as part of my daily office for this Holy Saturday. Much appreciated.
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One of the best sermons I’ve heard! Thank you!
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All I ever knew when I believed my own child would die, that the only person I could bear to think of in the agony of grief and fear was her. Because she knew. She KNEW.
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