Good Friday
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While we know the people in the story of Good Friday, several
objects were prominently featured as well. By considering the voices
of the object makers, we might gain a deeper understanding of Jesus’
sacrifice. This set of monologues has already been successfully
performed for its first audience of about one hundred people.
Play now available from Contemporary Drama Service, excerpt
below.
Cross Maker: Don’t look at me like that!. You didn’t expect me to
sacrifice my livelihood for a convicted criminal, did you? If I
didn’t make his cross, someone else would…You can’t blame me-- I had
to make a living for my family. I couldn’t sacrifice them for him. I
made the cross yes, but someone else used it. Crosses aren’t the
easiest thing to make, but the pay is good. What was I supposed to
do?
Funny how a tree in the Garden of Eden caused all our problems and
a tree of a carpenter solved them. Wood saved Noah from water; wood
saved us from fire. What would you have done if you were me? I had
to make it. I couldn’t disobey the Romans and sacrifice my life for
him …
Living the Last Supper
DaVinci
had a purpose to the moment that he captured in his painting. At
the very time the disciples react in different ways to the
announcement that one will betray him, Jesus’ hands still welcome
and serve them communion with his eyes focused out to us as well,
inviting us even today to join in this holy meal and his call for
all of us to serve.
Excerpt
Matthew:”…The wine is to be served at different times during the
Passover meal, but you gave us different wine and added something
new to the Passover rite. You told us to drink your blood, the
living water given for us.
It
made me think about your first miracle. Did the others remember
too? You turned water to wine at a wedding banquet. The water
poured from the cleansing jar turned to red. And you gave such
fine wine, the finest of wines, that the guests said that the host
had saved the best for last.
Here I
sit with the cup and sip your blood of the new covenant. And
you saved the best for last. The last miracle of the
last supper. How fitting to bring your ministry full circle from
cleansing water to wine; from wine to cleansing water…”
