The final week in Jerusalem with Jesus was palpably ominous with unnamed malice in the air. The Passover meal with him felt out of sync, wrenched from tradition, with more…
Jesus’ offering of his body to suffering, death and burial, caused mistaken, short-lived, celebration in Hell and permanent, full-on angelic rejoicing in the courts of Heaven. The gates, which had…
A hushed air of solemnity, voices at a whisper, exquisitely, and seasonally, garbed choir and priest, stately readings of Scripture, fully scripted order of service for well-groomed, buttoned-up, sedately seated…