{"id":29796,"date":"2015-04-03T09:42:41","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T14:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=29796"},"modified":"2015-04-03T09:45:34","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T14:45:34","slug":"good-friday-and-compassion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2015\/04\/03\/good-friday-and-compassion\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Friday and Compassion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the current issue of\u00a0<em>The Yale ISM Review,\u00a0<\/em>there&#8217;s a powerful Good Friday homily by Teresa Berger. She draws our attention to the very profound calling to &#8220;be there&#8221; to the sufferings of our own time, especially those which we cannot resolve or take away.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Why, then, have people for close to two thousand years gathered around the story of Jesus\u2019s Passion and death? And why do we continue to ask each other, in the words of the song we will soon sing: \u201cWere you there?\u201d \u201cWere you there when they crucified my Lord?\u201d The answer for all of us after all is: No. We were not there, two thousand years ago. Yet the liturgy of Good Friday labors, as no other liturgy in the year, to render present Jesus\u2019s dying in our midst, to make it coterminous with our own lives. I suggest to you that in doing so, this liturgy is seeking to embody a particular truth: Good Friday is about being there, about being present, about com-passion, and suffering with. As it was on that Friday so long ago, so it is also today.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>&#8220;Don&#8217;t Just Do Something, Stand There!&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>can be read <a href=\"http:\/\/ismreview.yale.edu\/article\/dont-just-do-something-stand-there\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> in its entirety.<\/p>\n<p>A blessed Good Friday to all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;. . . the liturgy of Good Friday labors, as no other liturgy in the year, to render present Jesus\u2019s dying in our midst, to make it coterminous with our own lives.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[46,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homiletics","category-liturgical-year"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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