Your Faith Journey - Finding God Through Words, Song And Praise

KIM O’BRIEN (as Mary):  It has been a horrible, heart-wrenching week.  And over the past couple of days, the silence has been deafening.  Our world seemed to come to an end when our friend, Jesus, died on Friday afternoon.  He had been executed in a ghastly, violent way – executed by crucifixion.  Since that time, the silence had been ear-piercing as our hearts were breaking, so heavy laden with grief.  We had been in such shock we honestly did not known what to do.  Jesus’ body had been buried in a tomb late on Friday afternoon and, because the Sabbath was beginning, we could not even give his body a proper cleansing and anointing, not even a suitable wrapping.  So, today, in the silence of the wee hours of morning and in accordance with Jewish burial customs, some of us decided to go back to Jesus’ tomb and perform the last burial duties with our spices.  We wanted to give Jesus an appropriate burial.  At least that was something we could do for our dear friend. We got up early and made our way to the tomb