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All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri

Christ's Seven Last Words - Part 1

All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri

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🗓️ 19 March 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Imagine being at Calvary with Jesus looking you in the eye and speaking these Seven Last Words personally to you.

In this episode, Edward Sri unpacks the Biblical meaning of Christ's Seven Last Words. But don’t think of these merely as words spoken to the world in general.

Jesus was thinking of you on Calvary. He know what you’d be going through this year, this month, this day—and He spoke these Seven Last Words personally to you—to comfort you, challenge you, and encourage you today.

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic Catholic where real faith meets real life.

0:19.5

Do you know the seven last words of Christ, the seven last

0:24.4

last sayings that he spoke from the cross before he died

0:28.0

these words have been the source of so many homilies and devotions and books and even musical pieces throughout the centuries,

0:35.6

but they're so helpful for us each Lent to keep our focus, to enter into the heart of Lent,

0:41.6

the spirit of Lent more profoundly.

0:43.9

And think about this, you know, when somebody's approaching their death, their last words

0:48.9

are really important many times.

0:51.3

If you've ever been by the bedside of a loved one and you remember

0:54.5

maybe the last words that they said to you, how much we treasure those words. They

0:59.5

often tell us something about the person, about what they value most, or what they wanted to tell

1:05.2

us before they died, and that's what's happening with Jesus.

1:08.3

As Jesus is, Jesus is approaching his death, these aren't just seven random words. No, this is Christ the teacher. He's still teaching all of us giving us a very important message for our lives today. Listen to what the great Saint Augustine said.

1:23.0

He noted how the cross is not just an instrument of execution.

1:28.6

It's like the chair of a great teacher and Christ the teacher is teaching to us. He says this quote,

1:34.6

the tree upon which were fixed the members of him dying was even the chair of

1:40.5

the master teaching.

1:42.6

Christ the teacher to the very end.

1:45.0

I want you to hear these words in you.

1:46.7

I want you to hear them as not just words spoken

1:49.8

on Good Friday 2,000 years ago,

1:52.0

or words that we find in the Bible that are just

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