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Events of the Three Great Days

As you read this article this day, we’re about to head into what is known to many Christians as “the Paschal Triduum” – or in plain English, “the Great Three Days” (Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday.
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As you read this article this day, we’re about to head into what is known to many Christians as “the Paschal Triduum” – or in plain English, “the Great Three Days” (Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday.) During these three days, we commemorate Jesus Christ’s betrayal, trial, crucifixion and death. In these days, we commemorate some pretty emotional events, and for some, hearing the events of this week have drawn tears wondering: “O who, am I, that for my sake, my Lord should take frail flesh and die?” To hear that the Son of God, who was present at the creation of the earth, born into human form, who is part of the Holy and Undivided Trinity was crucified like a common criminal is hard for us to hear – how could the crowds have turned so quickly on Jesus Christ – the one who preached of the Kingdom of God? How did this go wrong so quickly? Why call Good Friday good – the Son of God was crucified, after all?

These are all good and normal questions, if we look at the whole story from a human point of view (which makes sense, since we’re humans). However, in all of this, God used the events of the Paschal Triduum to work out our relationship with Him. To use the words of the old hymn There Is A Green Hill Far Away: “He died that we might be forgiven, he died to make us good; that we might go at last to heaven, saved by his precious blood.” The events of Good Friday are not good in that we watched Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the World, hung on the cross like a common criminal. They are good in that we are now, through Jesus’ work on the cross, reconciled to a God who loves us more than we can ask or imagine. So, my friends, this weekend, I invite you to enter once more into these events, to hear the stories, “and trust in his redeeming blood, and try his works to do.”

May you and yours have a blessed Triduum, and a joyful Eastertide celebration.

The Rev’d Fr. Matt Koovisk - Rector, St. Mary’s, Virden; St. Mark’s, Elkhorn; St. John’s, Reston

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