Also - Good Friday...

Today is also Good Friday, little sweetheart. 

At noon there are often services around the world and three or four that I have been to here in New York. The first one I ever attended was at St Thomas. I’ll watch the Trinity Church one today. And for many years, I attended the one at West End, including three consecutive years when I was one of the speakers. 

The Good Friday service is known for its prolonged silences, its meditative component, between the seven pieces of liturgy that are spoken over the course of a service that lasts between one and three hours. The liturgy consists of what are referred to as Christ’s Last Seven Words, although to be more precise, they are Christ’s last seven utterances, what he was heard to say while on the cross. 

Often, these services have seven parishioners choose one of these passages both to read and to compose a mediation upon its theme. That’s what I did those three years in a row at West End, little sweetheart. I always spoke of you, of course. And the final year, the service was recorded. 

That’s what’s here below, little sweetheart. My meditation on “The Seventh Word”, very much to do with you - my love for you, my grief, my faith that you are forever and that I will be with you again soon. 

How I love you! Forever!