Saturday, May 12, 2018

Saturday Synaxis

Lord, teach us to understand that your Son died to save us, not from suffering, but from ourselves. He died that we might live--but live as he lives, by dying as he died who died to himself. Amen.

- George Macdonald

(Painting: "Crucifixion (Pianto delle Marie)" by Giovanni Lanfranco, 17th cent.)