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                        On Saturday, April 19, 2025 at 11:50:45 a.m. EDT, Catherine Walther via Sundaycommunity <sundaycommunity@lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:
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                <div><div id="ydp8998e349yiv8994075993ydpf4e7e563yiv8311331704"><div>Amazing! I tried to share it on FB and it wouldn’t let me do it. Good old Musk! Catherine<br clear="all"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="ydp8998e349yiv8994075993ydpf4e7e563yiv8311331704gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="ydp8998e349yiv8994075993ydpf4e7e563yiv8311331704MsoNormal"><font color="#141414" face="Georgia, serif"><span style="font-size:16px;">When life wins there will be no losers. A'Ida Shibli</span></font></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"><div class="ydp8998e349yiv8994075993ydpf4e7e563yiv8311331704gmail_quote ydp8998e349yiv8994075993ydpf4e7e563yiv8311331704gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="ydp8998e349yiv8994075993ydpf4e7e563yiv8311331704gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 10:45 AM Ron MacDonell via Sundaycommunity <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:sundaycommunity@lists.integralshift.ca" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sundaycommunity@lists.integralshift.ca</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;" class="ydp8998e349yiv8994075993ydpf4e7e563yiv8311331704gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div class="ydp8998e349yiv8994075993ydpf4e7e563yiv8311331704gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="ydp8998e349yiv8994075993ydpf4e7e563yiv8311331704gmail_attr"><br clear="none"></div><div><div><div><div><blockquote type="cite">
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This is the day of ultimate imperial violence — the execution of one deemed a traitor to the state. Today’s post is a contemporary visual meditation on the violence suffered long ago by Jesus.<span> </span></p>
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<strong>Then the detachment of soldiers with its commander</strong><span><span> </span>and the religious officials arrested Jesus.<span> </span></span></p>
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<strong>So they bound Jesus,<span> </span></strong><span>led him away and handed him over to Pilate.</span></p>
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<strong>Pilate asked whether the man was a Galilean.</strong><span><span> </span>And when he learned that he was under Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent him off to Herod, who was himself in Jerusalem at that time…Herod questioned
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That same day Herod and Pilate became friends with each other; before this they had been enemies.</p>
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<strong>Pilate then called together</strong><span><span> </span>the chief priests, the leaders, and the people and said to them, “You brought me this man as one who was perverting the people; and here I have examined him in your
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<strong>Then they all shouted out together,</strong><span><span> </span>“Away with this fellow! Release Barabbas for us!” (This was a man who had been put in prison for an insurrection that had taken place in the city, and for
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Pilate, wanting to release Jesus, addressed them again; but they kept shouting, “Crucify, crucify him!”<span> </span></p>
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A third time he said to them, “Why, what evil has he done? I have found in him no ground for the sentence of death; I will therefore have him flogged and then release him.”</p>
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<strong>So Pilate gave his verdict that their demand should be granted.<span> </span></strong><span>He released the man they asked for, the one who had been put in prison for insurrection and murder, and he handed Jesus over
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<strong>Then the soldiers led him into the courtyard</strong><span><span> </span>of the palace (that is, the governor’s headquarters); and they called together the whole cohort. And they clothed him in a purple cloak; and after
 twisting some thorns into a crown, they put it on him. And they began saluting him, “Hail, King of the Jews!” They struck his head with a reed, spat upon him, and knelt down in homage to him. After mocking him, they stripped him of the purple cloak and put
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<strong>Two others also, who were criminals, were led away</strong><span><span> </span>to be put to death with him…</span></p>
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<span>One of the criminals who were hanged there kept deriding him…. But the other rebuked him, saying, “Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? And we indeed have been condemned justly, for we are getting what we deserve
 for our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong.” Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into</span><sup style="font-size:0.75em;line-height:0;"><span> </span></sup><span>your kingdom.”He replied, “Truly I tell you,
 today you will be with me in Paradise.”</span></p>
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<strong>There were also women</strong><span><span> </span>looking on from a distance; among them were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome. These used to follow him and provided for
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<strong>It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land</strong><span>until three in the afternoon, while the sun’s light failed; and the curtain of the temple was torn in two. Then Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands
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<span>in clod and cloud, worm and tree,<span> </span></span><br clear="none">
<span>that we, driving or driven, despise<span> </span></span><br clear="none">
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<span>the ancient forests, the vast grasslands<span> </span></span><br clear="none">
<span>in our madness, the presence<span> </span></span><br clear="none">
<span>in our very bodies of our grief.</span></p>
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