Greetings, readers of our blog. Today I am at home working on my research on the 1673 Neues Vollstandiges Eisenachisches Gesangbuch (The New, Complete Eisenach Hymnal), as is usually the case on Fridays. But today is not just a Friday, it is the one day out of every year on which Christ's sufferings on the Cross are memorialized in Churches everywhere, liberal and conservative.
Even in churches that do not usually even mention sin, today we are all sinners standing before the Cross where Jesus gave the ultimate sacrifice for sin. In honor of this I am uploading an illustration from the Eisenach hymnal, and below are some slightly-poetic musings for your perusal.
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some haiku on a high, holy day
hosanna! they cry
humiliation to come
how soon they all turn
crucify! they cry
it was our sin, none his own
crucify! we cry
the best friday, now
God's only Son does suffer
yet will rise again
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Amen, and amen.
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