The Day I Buried Jesus-A Good Friday Refletion

As I sat in the Good Friday service today I tried to imagine myself there with Jesus as the scripture passages were read.  There wasn’t really much time to think as they were read and reflections were shared, but I tried.  Somewhere during the service I had the crazy idea of sharing my journal entry from the day I tried to stay with Jesus throughout all of the Passion story.

Last November Michael and I went to a retreat on Ignatian Spirituality.  During the four days, we learned about Ignatius and his way; we learned the Ignatian world view has three elements, (1) finding God in all things, (2) the Contemplative in action, and (3) the more universal the good, the more divine it is. We also learned about the four “weeks”  which are centered around grace; they are usually a directed process of spirituality set…