{"id":1086,"date":"2020-04-06T12:15:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T11:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2020-04-06T12:15:45","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T11:15:45","slug":"good-friday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2020\/04\/06\/good-friday-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cuddycross-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1088\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cuddycross-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cuddycross-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cuddycross-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cuddycross.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lectionary for Good Friday is <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu\/texts.php?id=35\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. A couple of notes &#8230; Isaiah 53:8 <em>&#8220;By a perversion of justice he was taken away.&#8221;<\/em> I would want to associate this with Jesus and say that there is nothing fair or right about Good Friday: it was horrific. But read on &#8230; Isaiah 53:10 <em>&#8220;Yet it was the will of the LORD to crush him with pain.&#8221;<\/em> That&#8217;s something harder to associate with Jesus. How could God will such a thing? Maybe there&#8217;s a clue in the words of the Lord&#8217;s prayer (old-fashioned version for no good reason except that it&#8217;s easier to remember)&#8230; &#8220;Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.&#8221; &#8230; which suggests that there&#8217;s a way God&#8217;s will in heaven is different from that currently on earth, and it needs to be prayed for, for it to happen on earth. God&#8217;s will on earth is circumscribed by the painful and messy realities of life with billions of other people on this planet. I don&#8217;t know. But this week, we remember one who suffered, and whose suffering, I believe, gives hope and offers solidarity to the millions who suffer today, Monday the 6th April 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lectionary for Good Friday is here. A couple of notes &#8230; Isaiah 53:8 &#8220;By a perversion of justice he was taken away.&#8221; I would want to associate this with Jesus and say that there is nothing fair or right about Good Friday: it was horrific. But read on &#8230; Isaiah 53:10 &#8220;Yet it was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2020\/04\/06\/good-friday-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Good Friday&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1089,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions\/1089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}