Because we cannot have our traditional Tre Ore service this year, we are sharing some highlights from past years. Our preacher for the Fourth Word is Dominican Father Paul Murray, speaking at St. James Cathedral in 2011. Copyright (c) Father Paul Murray, 2011. This talk was later adapted in the book "Scars: Essays, Poems and Meditations on Affliction," Bloomsbury Continuum, 2014.
Because we cannot have our traditional Tre Ore service this year, we are sharing some highlights from past years. Our preacher for the Fourth Word is Dominican Father Paul Murray, speaking at St. James Cathedral in 2011. Copyright (c) Father Paul Murray, 2011. This talk was later adapted in the book "Scars: Essays, Poems and Meditations on Affliction," Bloomsbury Continuum, 2014.
The fourth word is taken from the Gospel according to Mark and Matthew
From noon onward, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. And about three o’clock Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” which means “my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?.”