{"id":653,"date":"2011-04-22T00:05:37","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T04:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanctuaryofwomen.com\/blog\/?p=653"},"modified":"2011-04-21T22:24:50","modified_gmt":"2011-04-22T02:24:50","slug":"passionate-companions-good-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanctuaryofwomen.com\/blog\/passionate-companions-good-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Passionate Companions: Good Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>And so we come to Good Friday and to the cross that we have been moving toward throughout this Lenten season. Here at the cross we meet the women who did not leave Jesus in his suffering and death. I think again of Etty Hillesum, with whom we traveled earlier in this season, and how she chose with such intention to share in the suffering of her people and to bear witness to what she saw and experienced.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>As we linger at the cross, and as we move through the coming days, where do you see the presence of the broken body of Christ in the world? Where do you feel drawn or challenged to stand with him and remain present as you encounter him in those who are in pain? How will you bear witness to what you see?<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Texts<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bible.oremus.org\/?ql=170437519\" target=\"_blank\">Mark 15:40-41<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/bible.oremus.org\/?ql=170437710\" target=\"_blank\">John 19:23-30<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Women Muse<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We bore wit-ness<br \/>\nwe bared with-ness<\/p>\n<p>living by our wits<br \/>\nliving by our withs<\/p>\n<p>wit to press beyond the lines<br \/>\nwit to improvise these lives<\/p>\n<p>with our deepest selves<br \/>\nwith integrity, with heart<\/p>\n<p>Now we stand here<br \/>\nat wit\u2019s end,<br \/>\nwith each other<br \/>\nand with him.<\/p>\n<p>To wit: was it enough?<br \/>\nTo with\u2014did it suffice?<\/p>\n<p><em>From <strong>Sacred Journeys<\/strong> \u00a9 Jan L. Richardson<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And so we come to Good Friday and to the cross that we have been moving toward throughout this Lenten season. Here at the cross we meet the women who did not leave Jesus in his suffering and death. I think again of Etty Hillesum, with whom we traveled earlier in this season, and how [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lent","category-sacred-time"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p190Xv-ax","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanctuaryofwomen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanctuaryofwomen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanctuaryofwomen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanctuaryofwomen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanctuaryofwomen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sanctuaryofwomen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":656,"href":"https:\/\/sanctuaryofwomen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions\/656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanctuaryofwomen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanctuaryofwomen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanctuaryofwomen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}