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Welcome back, guys. This week, we're spending some time with an Irish

prayer from St. Patrick called St. Patrick's breastplate or the Deers Cry. So let me read the

beginning of it here. I rise today through a mighty strength, the invocation of the Trinity,

through belief in the threiness, through confession of the oneness of the creator of creation.

I arise today through the strength of Christ with his baptism, through the strength of his

crucifixion with his burial, through the strength of his resurrection with his ascension,

through the strength of his descent for the judgment of doom. So today we're going to key in on this

line. I arise today through the strength of his

crucifixion with his burial. So let's read about that in the gospel of John again, John the

apostle of Jesus, who was an eyewitness of Jesus' crucifixion in burial. So let's go to John 19.

We'll start in verse 16. So they took Jesus and he went out bearing his own cross to the place

called the place of a skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha.

There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them.

Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross.

It read, Jesus of Nazareth, the king of the Jews.

Now verse 28.

After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said to

fulfill the scripture, I thirst. A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they put a sponge

full of the sour wine on hyssop branch and held it to his mouth. When Jesus had received the sour

wine, he said, it is finished, and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. Since it was the day of

preparation so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath, for that Sabbath was a high day,

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