Good Friday...

ελωι ελωι λιμα σαβαχθανει

Original works of art entitled "Eloi Eloi Lama Sabachthani 1 & 2" (My God, My God, Why hast Thou foresaken me). Taken by me at The College of The Resurrection, Mirfield, Yorkshire during Holy Week 2005.

Ecce Agnus Dei...

Above: Detail of the Ghent Altar Tryptich by Jan van Eyck.


Agnus Dei, qui tolis peccata mundi, miserere nobis.
Agnus Dei, qui tolis peccata mundi, dona nobis pacem.

Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, grant us your peace.

A short clip of the Choir of New College, Oxford, singing Samuel Barber's Agnus Dei.

Consummatum Est...

The Crucifixion

Jn 19. 17-30 Mt. 27.32-50 · Mk. 15.21-37 · Lk. 23.26-49

And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha:
¹⁸Where they crucified him, and two other with him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst.
¹⁹And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS.
²⁰This title then read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin.
²¹Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews.
²²Pilate answered, What I have written I have written.
²³Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.
²⁴They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did.
²⁵Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mothers sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.
²⁶When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son!
²⁷Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.
²⁸After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.
²⁹Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth.
³⁰When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.

"Kommt, Ihr Töcher, Helft Mir Klagen" Mit Choral: "O Lamn Gottes Unschuldig"

The first aria from St. Matthew's Passion, by J.S. Bach,
One of the most moving choral pieces ever written...

"Wir Setzen Uns Mit Tränen Nieder"

The last aria from St. Matthew's Passion...