7 words of creation and re-creation
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7 words of Creation and Re-creation. Great Friday 2014. St. Gregory the Great. The knowledge of the Cross is concealed in the sufferings of the Cross. Day 1 = Word 1. Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light . Gen 1:3. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
7 words of Creation and Re-creationGreat Friday 2014
St. Gregory the Great
The knowledge of the Cross is
concealed in the sufferings of the
Cross.
Day 1 = Word 1
Then God said, “Let there be
light”; and there was light. Gen 1:3
“Father, forgive them, for they
don’t know what they’re doing.”(Luke 23:34)
Day 2 = Word 2
Then God said, “Let there be a firmament
in the midst of the waters, and let it
divide the waters from the waters.” Gen 1:6
“I assure you, today you will be
with me in paradise.”(Luke
23:43)
Day 3 = Word 3
Then God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered
together into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it
was so. Gen 1:9
…. “Woman, behold your son!” 27 Then He
said to the disciple, “Behold your mother!”
And from that hour that disciple took her to his own home. Jn
19:26.27
Day 4 = Word 4
Then God said, “Let there be lights in the
firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for
signs and seasons, and for days and years;
Gen 1:14
And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a
loud voice, saying, “Eloi, Eloi, lama
sabachthani?” which is translated, “My God,
My God, why have You forsaken Me?” Mk
15:34
Day 5 = Word 5
Then God said, “Let the waters abound
with an abundance of living creatures, and
let birds fly above the earth across the face
of the firmament of the heavens.” Gen 1:20
“I am thirsty.”(John
19:28)
Day 6 = Word 6Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our
image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all[b] the earth and over every
creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of
God He created him; male and female He created them. Gen 1:26,27
“It is finished!”
(John 19:30)
St Ephrem the Syrian,'On Abraham and
Isaac’
While the Lamb of God hanged on the cross delivered the world from Death
and Hell
Day 7 = Word7
Then God blessed the seventh day and
sanctified it, because in it He
rested from all His work which God had created and made.
Gen 2:3
“Father, I entrust my spirit into your hands!”
(Luke 23:46)
St. John Chrysostom
The Cross uprooted us from the depths of evil and elevated us to the summit of virtue".