Tag: good Friday
#AprilCountry #GoodFriday , The Kneeling Drunkard’s Plea, The Louvin Brothers
They weren’t the Louvin Brothers, but unlike The Walker Brothers, they were actually brothers – Ira and Charlie Loudermilk. Charlie died in 2011, while Ira died in 1965 in a…
“I thirst”
From Fr Robert Hugh Benson’s Seven Last Words: THE FIFTH WORD I thirst. Our Lord continues to reveal His own condition, since He, after all, is the key to all…
“It is consummated”
From Fr Robert Hugh Benson’s Seven Last Words: THE SIXTH WORD: “It is consummated. He has finished His Father’s business, He has dealt with sinners and saints, and has finally…
“My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?”
From Fr Robert Hugh Benson’s Seven Last Words: “THE FOURTH WORD My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me? Our Blessed Lord in the revelation He makes from the…
“Amen I say to thee, to-day thou shalt be with Me in Paradise”
From Fr Robert Hugh Benson’s Seven Last Words: THE SECOND WORD Amen I say to thee, to-day thou shalt be with Me in Paradise. Our Divine Lord, in this Second…
Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross: Introduction to reflections by R H Benson
For Good Friday, I am posting reflections by Robert Hugh Benson, the son of an (Anglican) Archbishop of Canterbury who became a Catholic priest and prolific writer before his early…
Séamus Sweeney 