As I continue along my personal sprititual development journey, I focus on "The Today as I continue along my lenten spirtual journey, I focus attention on "The Second Word from the Cross - 'Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.'" Reading in chapter 2 of Neuhaus's "Death on a Friday Afternoon" I am reminded about the "two criminals hoisted on their crosses, one to the left of Jesus, the other to the right." Two of the gospel writers referred to the two as

Today, as I take a next step along my Lenten spiritual journey, my focus is on what Richard J. Neuhaus (in his book, "Death on a Friday Afternoon") shares on Atonement. "What was separated by an abyss of wrong (the crucifixtion of Jesus) has been reconciled by the deed of perfect love. What the first Adam destroyed the second Adam (Jesus) has restored." "We knew not what we did when we reached for the right to name good and evil. We knew not what we did when we grabbed what w

The first chapter of "Death on a Friday Afternoon" focuses on the "First Word from the cross" - Father forgive them for they know not what they do." We were there, there at the cross and so, we are a part of the 'they'. But surely I was aware of what was going on when Jesus was put to the cross. Surely I was condoning this tragedy (by not doing anything). As Neuhaus writes, "I ways I do not understand, I know that I too, did the deed, wielded the whip, drove the nails, thru