Holy Week: Prayer That Pierces ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Holy Week: Prayer That Pierces ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Now, in Passiontide, Christ becomes all the more visibly, our companion. We walk with him and see him face and overcome our own worst fears, we see him take on, in us and for us, the pain the frailty, the fear the failure, and the death itself that haunt and shadow our life. We stay with him through his Good Friday as he stays with us through ours, so that when Easter dawns we also share with him, and he bestows abundantly on us, the new life an…

In addition to participating in the special services that precede the Feast of the Resurrection of the Lord, believers must say an extremely powerful prayer for the purification of the soul. In this way they will meet Easter as it should be. "Lord, Jesus Christ, our God, Who wept for Lazarus and shed tears of sorrow and mercy for him, receive my tears. With Your Passion, heal my passions. With Your wounds, heal Your wounds, heal my blood. the fr…