Lent 2009: Day 38

A Lenten Journey Through the Spiritual Alpahbet
Psalm 119

Qoph (Part 2)

Hear my voice in your love, O LORD;
by your edict give me life.
Malicious persecutors draw near me;
they are far from your teaching.
You are near, O LORD;
reliable are all your commands.
Long have I known from your decrees
that you have established them forever. *****

Joseph of Arimathea, secretly a disciple of Jesus for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate if he could remove the body of Jesus. And Pilate permitted it. So he came and took his body.

Nicodemus, the one who had first come to him at night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes weighing about one hundred pounds.

They took the body of Jesus and bound it with burial cloths along with the spices, according to the Jewish burial custom.

Now in the place where he had been crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had yet been buried.

So they laid Jesus there because of the Jewish preparation day; for the tomb was close by.
(excerpt John 19)
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O Papa-me-fella,
A friend I need,
A friend of body-of-Christ with me
Fear of dark not allowed,
(fear of everything else expected and understood,
we can hold each other’s hands)
Secretly at night whatever it be,
Ritual and tradition transform when free