The Way Home   So far in the Triduum, as we have travelled with Jesus from the Last Supper to the resurrection we have been exploring the theme of home. On Maundy Thursday, in the evening, we talked about the promise of home, as we gave thanks for the Last Supper, we remembered how Jesus made a covenant, agreed a literal mortgage with us to save us, and in which He pays in full through His broken body and His shed blood. On Good Friday we talked about the cost of home as we remembered that...

The Price of Home Over the Triduum as we journey with Jesus from the table of the Last Supper to the Cross to the empty tomb we are doing so alongside the theme of home. Yesterday we looked at how we entered into a covenant, into a mortgage with Christ at the Last Supper, and today we are looking at Jesus paying the price of that covenant with His own body on the cross.   When we think of our home, that sense of home is nearly always associated with a building. Think of your childhood homes,...

The Promise of Home Over the next three days, tonight, at the good Friday service and at the Easter Vigil, I will be looking at this idea of home. Tonight we will think about the promise of home, tomorrow the price of home and on Saturday the arrival at home. When Claire and I were sharing our first home together, we didn’t have two pennies to rub together. Straight after university, I had managed to get a job in a school in the middle of nowhere in deep rural Lincolnshire and Claire got a...