Jesus was "Laminated" on Great Friday
I've missed a ton of great things to blog about so I'm going to go back a bit and write about a few of the things that I missed.
A couple of weeks ago was Holy Week at my church. I look forward to it every year. Great Friday is easily the best day of the year for me. Christmas, my birthday, 4th of July, are all behind Great Friday as far as I am concerned.
Before I get to the main reason for this blog post, I need to give you a bit of background. I am Coptic Orthodox and attend a Coptic Orthodox church (kind of obvious, but I just wanted to be clear). The Coptic church consists of 95% Egyptians. For mostof the Egyptians there, English is there second language. In the readings for Great Friday, there is a crap load of old English which is hard for me to read and English is my first language. Now when you send an Egyptian who has only been speaking English for a year or so and have him read the old English, you are asking for trouble.
In this particular case, the reading was from one of the expositions which explains and summarizes the 4 gospels that are read previously. The expositions are not in old English but they are written by someone who seems to want to show off their vocabulary by using the biggest words they possibly can. The reading in question refers to when Jesus was carrying his cross to Gologotha to be crucified and some of the women watching in the crowd were crying over him. The exposition writer uses the word "lamented" which means to mourn for. The word "lamented" is already hard enough for a native English speaker to understand, let alone read before a large crowd of people. When the Arabic speaking Egyptian comes to read it he says "and they LAMINATED Jesus...." I think I was the only one that caught that he said laminated. I bit my tongue and managed to keep myself for bursting out laughing.
And to think that after all these years, I thought Jesus was just beaten, whipped, ridiculed and crucified on Great Friday and made the ultimate sacrifice for me, he actually did something more. He was laminated for our sakes as well.
A couple of weeks ago was Holy Week at my church. I look forward to it every year. Great Friday is easily the best day of the year for me. Christmas, my birthday, 4th of July, are all behind Great Friday as far as I am concerned.
Before I get to the main reason for this blog post, I need to give you a bit of background. I am Coptic Orthodox and attend a Coptic Orthodox church (kind of obvious, but I just wanted to be clear). The Coptic church consists of 95% Egyptians. For mostof the Egyptians there, English is there second language. In the readings for Great Friday, there is a crap load of old English which is hard for me to read and English is my first language. Now when you send an Egyptian who has only been speaking English for a year or so and have him read the old English, you are asking for trouble.
In this particular case, the reading was from one of the expositions which explains and summarizes the 4 gospels that are read previously. The expositions are not in old English but they are written by someone who seems to want to show off their vocabulary by using the biggest words they possibly can. The reading in question refers to when Jesus was carrying his cross to Gologotha to be crucified and some of the women watching in the crowd were crying over him. The exposition writer uses the word "lamented" which means to mourn for. The word "lamented" is already hard enough for a native English speaker to understand, let alone read before a large crowd of people. When the Arabic speaking Egyptian comes to read it he says "and they LAMINATED Jesus...." I think I was the only one that caught that he said laminated. I bit my tongue and managed to keep myself for bursting out laughing.
And to think that after all these years, I thought Jesus was just beaten, whipped, ridiculed and crucified on Great Friday and made the ultimate sacrifice for me, he actually did something more. He was laminated for our sakes as well.
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