Good Friday
Crucifixion by Ukrainian artist, Natalya Rusetska
Last week we've introduced Lectio Divina or "holy reading" with the above, very basic steps. In actual fact it is a distilling of the processes traditionally described in lectio divina, as expressed in the image below.
The steps can be helpful, but the main thing is that you take your time, read the passage or piece slowly and a number of times and then to be open for the text to work on and in you.
With that said, read Mark 15:33-41.
Against the backdrop of the account of Jesus's crucifixion, read Merton's prayer, using the principles of Lectio Divina.
The piece of music, the Coventry Carol from 1591, is actually a Christmas carol. It's a lullaby, sung as a farewell to the babies killed by king Herod.
Somehow, right from his birth, death wasn't far from the life of Jesus, which is actually true for all of us living.
On this Good Friday, a lullaby to Jesus.
Lyrics
Lully, lullay, thou little tiny child,
Bye bye, lully, lullay.
Thou little tiny child,
Bye bye, lully, lullay.
O sisters too, how may we do
For to preserve this day
This poor youngling for whom we sing,
“Bye bye, lully, lullay?”
Herod the king, in his raging,
Chargèd he hath this day
His men of might in his own sight
All young children to slay.
That woe is me, poor child, for thee
And ever mourn and may
For thy parting neither say nor sing,
“Bye bye, lully, lullay.”
A blessed Easter to you all.
George & Matilda
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