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They Were There: Witnesses to the Passion, by James A. Griffin. 23rd Publications,
2004.
Bishop Griffin, after making a careful study of the passion of Jesus, was able to name thirty-three witnesses to the Passion. He recalls the perpetrators, the Sanhedrin, and the high priests. He names the disciples Peer, James, John, Mary Magdalen, and Joseph of Arimathea. He includes Simon of Cyrene and the crowds along the way to Calvary.
The bishop attempts to enter into the mind and heart of bach witness to determine their thoughts,
motivations, and actions. He shows how theseideas retain the vision of the Gospel. A prayer and reflection questions conclude each chapter, making this book very appropriate for Lenten prayer and study.
In the chapter on Barabbas, for example, the author asks, “What happened to Barabbas? Did he reform? Was he different after his release?’ “No one knows,” he answers, but the bishop then directs the same question to his readers. “What happened to me after I was released because of Jesus?”
Thanks to Sr. Irene Hartman, OP for this
review.
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St. Wilfrid: (633-709): October 12.
A Celtic monk of Lindisfarne and abbot of the new Celtic monastery at Ripon, nonetheless Wilfrid championed Roman influence in Anglo-Saxon England. In 663 he persuaded the
famous Synod of Whitby to settle the controversy over the date of Easter by choosing the Roman method of calculation. A few years later he became bishop of Northumbria, a vast arena for his mission of expanding and consolidating the church. He planted many new Catholic communities.
Among them was the new monastery at Hexam, where Wilfrid had constructed the largest church
north of the Alps. Three times in Wilfrid’s long episcopacy kings exiled him, and each time he appealed to the pope, who upheld his claims. Thus he strengthened the Anglo-Saxon pattern of maintaining close ties with the church at Rome. During his first exile in 678, Wilfrid was sidetracked on his way to Rome and spent some months preaching to pagans in Frisia, establishing the Anglo- Saxon mission to Germany. During his second forced exile, Wilfrid took the Christian faith to the people of
Wessex and Sussex.
For many months the evangelical preacher spoke eloquently, the long sweep of his words covering everything Almighty God did to put idolatry to shame. Then Wilfrid found grace in the sight of the king and a great gateway of faith opened for him. On one day he baptized many thousands of pagans (as the Apostle Peter did) of both sexes who forsook idolatry
and professed faith in Almighty God. After his third exile from 692 to 703, Wilfrid returned to end his controversial life as bishop of Hexam. He died in 709 at Oundle, a monastery he had founded in Mercia.
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