This Lent, as in years past, the longtime music director at Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church, Mary Jones Rhodes, has organized a program called “The Seven Last Words”. She has chosen ...

The Seven Sayings of Jesus on the Cross are seven statements that Jesus made while he was being crucified, as recorded in the Gospels. The Seven Sayings — sometimes called the Seven Last Words ...

In this eloquent yet inconsistent work, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Meacham (The Soul of America) shares personal reflections on the seven last sayings of Jesus from the cross.

Fleming Rutledge. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, $12 (81pp) ISBN 978-0-8028-2786-9 Rutledge, the Anglican priest whose book, Help My Unbelief, is fast becoming a modern classic, ruminates on ...

“I like to sit at the organ in the afternoon,” she said, “and I pray through my music.” The term Seven Last Words actually refers to the last seven utterances Jesus made while on the cross.