Irreverently Reverend

  Second Sunday of Easter; observance of Earth Day O Lord, our Lord,     how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. 2      Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes,     to still the enemy and the avenger. 3  When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,     the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, 4  what is man that you are mindful of him,     and the son of man that you care for him? 5  Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings     and crowned him with glory and honor. 6  You have given him dominion over the works of your hands;     you have put all things under his feet, 7  all sheep and oxen,     and also the beasts of the field, 8  the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,     whatever passes along the paths of the seas. 9  O Lord, our Lord,     how majestic is your name in all the earth!   (CEB)             Happy

  Good Friday It was about noon on the Preparation Day for the Passover. Pilate said to the Jewish leaders, "Here's your king."   15 The Jewish leaders cried out, "Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him!" Pilate responded, "What? Do you want me to crucify your king?" "We have no king except the emperor," the chief priests answered.   Then Pilate handed Jesus over to be crucified. 16 The soldiers took Jesus prisoner.   17 Carrying his cross by himself, he went out to a place called Skull Place (in Aramaic, Golgotha).   18 That's where they crucified him—and two others with him, one on each side and Jesus in the middle. 19 Pilate had a public notice written and posted on the cross. It read "Jesus the Nazarene, the king of the Jews."   20 Many of the Jews read this sign, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city and it was written in Aramaic, Latin, and Greek.   21 Therefore, the Jewish chief priests complain