In his sixth reflection for Lent, Luke Bell links the story of Christ’s Passion with God’s compassion for humankind, a message that resonates especially in Holy Week
Some years ago, a small news item appeared in the press. It was tucked away from reports of the movers and shakers, as if to say, “This isn’t very important, but you might find it an amusing comical oddity.” It was about a movie to be made with an Aramaic script.There was going to be a bit of Latin, to give it wider accessibility, as it were. The implication of the article was that there was a question mark over whether both of the Aramaic scholars who would be interested would come to see it.That movie, of course, was Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ. There was massive interest in i
10 April 2014, The Tablet
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