{"id":3533,"date":"2010-12-27T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-27T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/?p=3533"},"modified":"2022-03-10T20:14:11","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T03:14:11","slug":"the-passion-of-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/the-passion-of-christ\/","title":{"rendered":"The Passion of Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\"><i><span style=\"font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\ncolor:black;mso-themecolor:text1\">The Passion Of Christ<\/span><\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\ncolor:black;mso-themecolor:text1\"><br \/>\nBy Al Staggs<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\ncolor:black;mso-themecolor:text1\">Wearying are all these depictions<br \/>\nOf the suffering of our Lord<br \/>\nWhose dying and death<br \/>\nAre &ldquo;performed&rdquo; in so many plays,<br \/>\nCantatas and now by one big film.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\ncolor:black;mso-themecolor:text1\">All this is so tiring to my senses<br \/>\nAnd sensibilities-<br \/>\nThese &ldquo;performances&rdquo; miss the point.<br \/>\nThat is, that Jesus is being oppressed,<br \/>\nTortured and murdered every single day<br \/>\nIn the lives of millions upon millions<br \/>\nOf the naked, sick, the hungry and thirsty<br \/>\nOf our world.<\/p>\n<p>Did he not tell us ever so plainly<br \/>\nThat he was embodied in all those<br \/>\nWho suffer in our time.<br \/>\nWhile the Church has &ldquo;performed&rdquo; its<br \/>\nRitual of remembrance of the &lsquo;Passion of Christ&rsquo;<br \/>\nThroughout her history,<br \/>\nInnumerable souls have tasted real torture<br \/>\nAnd very real death.<\/p>\n<p>Have we in the Church, perhaps, been more concerned<br \/>\nWith our dramatic &ldquo;performance&rdquo;<br \/>\nThan with the plight of those<br \/>\nWhom Jesus said he was to be?<\/p>\n<p>Oberammergau&rsquo;s power of performance<br \/>\nContinued to flourish during the Nazi regime,<br \/>\nWhen Jews were being dragged away<br \/>\nBy the millions to death camps.<\/p>\n<p>Let us weep for Jesus, yes,<br \/>\nBut let us also weep for those<br \/>\nWho are being crucified this very day.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Passion Of Christ By Al Staggs Wearying are all these depictions Of the suffering of our Lord ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,25,8],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3533"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5452,"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3533\/revisions\/5452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}