The Easter Vigil,
Is the longest and most solemn
It begins after sundown
With the Service of Light
When a new fire is kindled
Symbolising the Light of salvation
Which is used to light
The Paschal candle
Symbolising the Light of Christ
Reminding all that
Christ is Light and life
Glad Saturday
Better known as
Holy Saturday
Is not a Mass
But a time of
Prayer and fasting
And meditating on Christ’s
Passion and Death
His Descent into Hell
And his Resurrection
The Robe, Directed by Henry Koster, is set in the Roman province of Judea during the 1st century, where Roman tribune Marcellus Gallio (Richard Burton) is ordered to crucify Jesus of Nazareth, but is tormented by his guilty conscience in the aftermath.
After the Crucifixion he gets drunk and wins
Jesus' homespun robe and suffers nightmares and delusions after the event.
After a period of time in Rome he hopes to
find a way to live with what he has done, and although still not believing in
Jesus as a Messiah, he returns to Palestine to try and learn what he can of the
man he killed.
It’s a poignant script powerfully acted by
Burton, while the lovely Jean Simmons is incredible as the young woman he
loves, Diana. Michael Rennie is a quiet but forceful Peter, but Jay Robinson
steals the picture as the depraved Emperor Caligula, and as he normally did
Victor Mature played himself as Demetrius and there were a host of competent
performances in the minor roles.
The cinematography is quite magnificent filmed
in Cinemascope, while the film is graced by Alfred Newman beautifully and
eerily haunting musical score.
A very watchable movie that stands the test of
time but is not given the exposure it so richly deserves, perhaps because programmers
are of a more secular bent.
Good Friday
Marks
the day
The
Temple Guards
Aided
by the Judas kiss
Arrested
Jesus
At
Gethsemane
Also,
his interrogation
By
High Priest Caiaphas
And
the Sanhedrin
Who
condemned him to death
Before
conveying him before
The
Roman governor
Pontius
Pilate
Who
with reluctance
Ordered
his crucifixion
At
the place of the Skull
One of the twelve
Judas
Iscariot
The
betrayer
The
taker of coins
The
lost soul
Satan’s
pawn
Hanged
himself
Replaced
as an apostle
By
Matthias
It's sad that in Democratic America
That
Black Friday gives them more of a lift
Than
Good Friday, as they are more
Interested
in bargains than the greatest gift
One of the twelve
Chosen Apostles
Possessed of Evil?
Or pawn of Christ
Judas Iscariot met
High Priest Caiaphas
And left the temple
With the Sanhedrin bribe
“Thirty pieces of silver”
Bought an apostle
And Christ’s fate was sealed
For after the last supper
In the gardens of Gethsemane
Judas Iscariot delivered
His kiss of betrayal
Condemning them both
By that single act
To an untimely death
Judas by his own hand
And Christ on the cross
