The Burial
And so will continue our journey through the Three Holy Days.
Good Friday calls us to ponder Jesus’ death and burial. Faith that the sin of the world was nailed to the cross then means faith that the sin of the world was also buried in the tomb.
According to our Floriography devotionals, “They thought they were burying him, putting him away forever. But they really were planting him, like a seed or a bulb, so he would rise again anew! One of Jesus’ earliest teachings about his death was to compare it to a seed that falls to the earth, so it may grow and bloom. What in our lives needs to die, in order to be reborn?”
And so, having prayed with Jesus and washing others’ feet on Maundy Thursday, we will gather on Good Friday to bury with Jesus the sin and suffering of the world—time capsule style.
TO PARTICIPATE:
Friday, 4/15 at 12:30 p.m.
As the conclusion of our 24-hour prayer vigil, we will gather around the foot of the cross at the entrance to the fellowship hall of New Jerusalem. We ask you to bring with you:
a picture, or a drawing, or a written prayer, or a small item—symbols of those things which you have prayed over and which you wish to see “dead” and gone in 10 years’ time, and
a picture, or a drawing, or a written prayer, or a small item—symbols of the new life you hope will have grown in place of that which dies. These items will be placed in a watertight container and then buried within our garden at the foot of the cross. You will be then sent forth to actively pursue the life you hope to see grow.