7 words of Creation and Re- creation Great Friday 2014

St. Gregory the Great  The knowledge of the Cross is concealed in the sufferings of the Cross.

Day 1 = Word 1  Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. Gen 1:3

 “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they’re doing.” (Luke 23:34)

Day 2 = Word 2  Then God said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.” Gen 1:6

 “I assure you, today you will be with me in paradise.” (Luke 23:43)

Day 3 = Word 3  Then God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so. Gen 1:9

 …. “Woman, behold your son!” 27 Then He said to the disciple, “Behold your mother!” And from that hour that disciple took her to his own home. Jn 19:26.27

Day 4 = Word 4  Then God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years; Gen 1:14

 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” which is translated, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?” Mk 15:34

Day 5 = Word 5  Then God said, “Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens.” Gen 1:20

 “I am thirsty.” (John 19:28)

Day 6 = Word 6  Then God said, “ Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all[b] the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. ” 27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him ; male and female He created them. Gen 1:26,27

 “It is finished!” (John 19:30)

St Ephrem the Syrian,'On Abraham and Isaac’  While the Lamb of God hanged on the cross delivered the world from Death and Hell

Day 7 = Word7  Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made. Gen 2:3

 “Father, I entrust my spirit into your hands!” (Luke 23:46)

St. John Chrysostom  The Cross uprooted us from the depths of evil and elevated us to the summit of virtue".