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This is a series of conferences given by Father Thomas Asher of the Society of St. Pies

the 10th on the life of our Lord Jesus Christ.

It's meant to be seen as a private retreat, a retreat that you can do while you're sheltering

in place or at your house, perhaps with some extra time.

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Now here's Father Asher.

In this meditation, we're going to be contemplating the last seven words of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And to find these last seven words, we have to go to all four gospels, or we will be going to all four gospels.

We find some of the words in one gospel that are not found in another, and taking them

all together, we have our Lord's Last Testament, so to speak.

And before we begin, let us all agree that a person's dying words, they carry an import

or a weight or an importance far beyond their normal everyday language.

We can imagine a soldier dying on the battlefield and confiding to his comrade that is there next to him.

You know, maybe he says something like, you know, tell my parents I did my duty, or tell my wife I loved her, or ask my

wife to tell my children who I was, don't let them forget me.

We might imagine, too, a man dying in his bed and calling his children to his bedside

in order to impart to them some last bit of wisdom.

In all of these various cases, the person that is dying is expressing what is nearest and dearest to

their heart.

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