{"id":3658,"date":"2017-04-14T14:44:11","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T13:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=3658"},"modified":"2017-04-14T14:44:39","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T13:44:39","slug":"stations-of-the-cross-while-walking-home-from-work-on-good-friday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/stations-of-the-cross-while-walking-home-from-work-on-good-friday-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Stations of the Cross While Walking Home From Work on Good Friday Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Galway<\/a>
Galway Cathederal seen from across the Corrib River at Terryland Forest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A reflection on Good Friday, contrition, the death of Christ, the arrogance and sins of the church, the current hope of lasting reform, and for a church and faith stronger in future through being humble and honest, not a political powerhouse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Cold and calm, Good Friday morning
\nWalking home from work, was it like this
\nWhen carrying the cross he fell three times
\nHis apostles fled, them did he miss?<\/p>\n

The wind is still, trees of Terryland Forest not swaying
\nAs I ponder – the morning has taken the fleeing dark –
\nThe whips whizzed down again and again
\nLeaving in the Holy Flesh the deepest mark<\/p>\n

I see the crosses at Bohermore:
\nHe had walked the bog road, was nailed down
\nWhipped and scourged, as king of the Jews mocked
\nThorns woven round his head as a crown<\/p>\n

I walk past Plunketts Church, another martyr
\nWas it so the church could deny
\nThe wrong they done, as if to God himself
\nIt was not for that that Christ did die.<\/p>\n

I see the cranes above Renmore
\nThe soldiers drew lots for his clothes
\nHis body limp, to a tomb to be taken
\nThe soldiers were the police of their day I suppose.<\/p>\n

Forgive them, for they know not what they do
\nHe commanded before his spirit he commended
\nI cant forgive those who did know what they done
\nCan only pray that such has now ended.<\/p>\n

I can only wish for a humbler church
\nHaving great faith in Francis the current Pope
\nLike John XXIII, but after his time
\nWill the hardliners return? That they don’t we can only hope<\/p>\n

To no Church I went this Good Friday morning
\nNot being a great man for prayer
\nYet as I walked home from my work
\nI did the stations as I wandered there.<\/p>\n

\"Christ<\/a>
Christ on the Cross<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A reflection on Good Friday, contrition, the death of Christ, the arrogance and sins of the church, the current hope of lasting reform, and for a church and faith stronger in future through being humble and honest, not a political powerhouse. 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