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We all had snacks together. Then, as we walked to the “movie theater,” we
passed the Stations of the Cross hanging on the classroom wall. In the theater
before the movie began, we asked the kids to watch and listen for the Stations
as they appeared in Godspell, whose dialogue is taken entirely from St.
Matthew’s Gospel. (We only watched the
end of the movie, which depicts the Passion and Resurrection stories.)
Watch and listen for the
monstrous powers of darkness lining up against Jesus!
Watch and listen to Jesus gathering
his friends close to him in their confusion over his struggle with darkness!
Watch and listen to Jesus as he
“triumphantly” marches through the city just before his suffering and death!
Watch and listen to Jesus as he
sits down for Passover with his friends and washes them clean!
Watch and listen to Jesus as he
breaks bread into his body and shares wine into his blood!
Watch and listen as Judas runs
out on Jesus and betrays him!
Watch and listen to Jesus as he
prays to his Father for strength and begs his friends to stay awake and remain
loyal!
Watch and listen as the police
are led to Jesus by his betrayer and arrest him at the sign of a kiss!
Watch and listen as Jesus is
hanged, made to suffer and to die!
Watch and listen as the powers of
darkness are fooled into thinking they had killed God!
And watch and listen as Jesus,
the God who lives forever, rises in all who believe in Him--
DAY BY DAY!!!
Watch and listen as the story is
retold by a Clown among clowns. To
remind us, in the words of St. Paul, that “the foolishness of God is wiser than
human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.” (1Cor.1:25)
They keep trying to put a Clown
on the cross, because “[t]he message of the cross is foolishness to those who
are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” (St.
Paul, 1Cor.1:18).
Love, Deacon Charlie
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