Tenebrae means darkness. Light by light is extinguished in
this service, the first of Holy Saturday, as Jeremiah predicts ruined cities,
violated women, starving children. How
long will ye blaspheme mine honour? cries the Lord.
Many years
ago, I heard the prophecy of a student cadet: In the wars of the future, there
will be no such thing as a civilian. The war will be everywhere.The German army, shooting thousands of
civilians, women and children on the Eastern Front in WW II, appealed to the government:
You are destroying our young men.
The Nazis
then trained specialists to see to these killings, persons specially corrupted
for that work, as is happening today.
What did
the Lord say to those at the foot of the cross? They know not what they do. But
their officer was not completely corrupted. He saw, and said: Truly this was
an innocent man.
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