24. Revisiting a Contemporary and Personal Good Friday Service

Here is Part Two of our Good Friday Podcast from last April. It is a personal reflection in music and story of what I think it means to stand at the foot of the cross today, to embrace the mystics life, and that in its simplest form, is to embrace the sacred in all people and all matter. And this, of course, is open to all people, regardless of formal religious inclinations, or lack thereof. 

 Still, there is, on this Good Friday, an opportunity to contemplate the unique mystic tradition within the Christian faith. For standing at the foot of the cross has a particular meaning within our faith story, though the principles within it are universal.

We are, all of us, living through uncertain times. But I am hoping that during this time your spirit will calm, and there will be time to consider the larger matters. We don’t often do that in our hurly burly lives. But here now, is an opportunity.

 May the music and thoughts here offered grant you a time of rest and reflection. 

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

— Simone Weil