Holy Week – Page 2 – An Exercise in the Fundamentals of Orthodoxy

Royal Banners

By Peter Ould Posted on March 25, 2013 Posted in Holy Week 1 Comment Tagged with Flesh, Flood, Glory Tree, Guile, Holy Cross, Holy Week, Homage, Lips, Prey, Prophetic Song, Purple Robe, Ransom, Righteousness, Sacred Side, Saviour, Soldier, Spear, Spoiler, World Christ, Wounds

Daily Offices during Holy Week are awesome. The royal banners forward go, the cross shines forth in mystic glow; where he in flesh, our flesh who made, our sentence bore, our ransom paid. There whilst he hung, his sacred side …

Royal Banners Read more »

Palms

By Peter Ould Posted on March 24, 2013 Posted in Holy Week, Palm Sunday, Poetry 1 Comment Tagged with 24th March, Bough, Canopy, Carpet, Obeisance, Palm Sunday, Palms, Stroke

Just a stroke, so tenderly embraced and then laid, strowed, under foot, under hoof, a carpet and canopy for an entering King. How easy to rip from the bough an instrument of worship. Just a stroke, so fiercely stretched and …

Palms Read more »

Baruch Haba B’Shem Adonai

By Peter Ould Posted on March 24, 2013 Posted in Holy Week, Palm Sunday No Comments Tagged with Baruch Haba, Donkey, Http Www Youtube, Shem Adonai

Thought it would make a change from the usual Donkey songs…

Cheesus Christ

By Peter Ould Posted on March 23, 2013 Posted in Easter, Holy Week, Suffering, Theology 8 Comments Tagged with Adornments, Angry With God, Bible, Bizarre Moments, Book Of Remembrance, Bredin, Caricatures, Cheesus, Christian Mystics, Class Warfare, Conglomeration, Congregation Members, Culinary, Distaste, Easter Lily, Empty Tomb, Evangelicals, First Fruits, Fondue, Giles, Giles Fraser, Good Friday, Jesus Death, Lack Of Awareness, Love, Many Things, Pretentiousness, Scripture, Sloane Square, Spiritual Consequences, Suffering Pain, Sunday Morning, Teresa Of Avila, Victory, Wounds

In one of those bizarre moments of serendipity this morning I read Giles Fraser’s latest column for the Guardian’s Comment Macht Frei section right after I had just sorted out the Easter lily for my dead son to be part …

Cheesus Christ Read more »

Hosannah?

By Peter Ould Posted on April 1, 2012 Posted in Holy Week, Palm Sunday No Comments Tagged with Celebrations, Two Sides

Two sides to this morning’s celebrations! Ever walked to yourÂ death?

Fling Wide the Gates

By Peter Ould Posted on April 22, 2011 Posted in Good Friday, Holy Week 5 Comments Tagged with All Saints, Blessings, Clean Hands, D King, Festive Seasons, Fruit Of The Vine, Haggadah, Holy Convocation, King Of Glory, King Of The Universe, Matzot, Maundy Thursday Service, Psalm 24, Pure Heart, Recitation, Rejoicing, Righteousness, Seder, Startling Revelation, Tongues

While I attended an awesome Maundy Thursday service at All Saints Ecclesall last night, a startling revelation. Psalm 24 is messianic in its entirety, and it’s place in Haggadah is prophetic. The recitation of parts of Psalm 24 occurs early …

Fling Wide the Gates Read more »

Category: Holy Week