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DAY THIRTY-NINE – Friday, April 15, 2022 (Good Friday)
 
Matthew 26:57-75; 27:1-56 
The Love that clothes itself in light
Stands naked now, despised, betrayed,
Receiving blows to face and head
From hands that Love itself has made.
 
The Love that lifts the stars, the sun,
Collapses, spent, beneath the cross;
The Love that fills the universe
Goes on to death and total loss.
 
Love, helpless, comes to Calvary,
Rejected, scorned, and crucified;
Love hangs in shame, and dies alone,
But Love abased, is glorified.
 
Extinguished with the sun at noon,
Love’s light transcends all history;
Love, wrapped in linen, Love entombed,
Still wraps all heaven in mystery.
 
Though love is lost, Love finds us here;
Though Love is absent, Love remains;
Where Love is finished, Love begins;
Where Love is dead, love lives and reigns!
                                                                        Alan Gaunt, 1989