Back in the 1940s, as the young rector of Calvary Episcopal Church in Columbia, Missouri, Bishop Roger Blanchard wrote these meditations for a three hour Good Friday service. In 1997, his son Peter found the handwritten manuscript among files at the family home and encouraged his Dad to preserve his words for the family. Over the next few months, the Bishop revised and updated his work to reflect the 1990s and prepared to preach it one more time in the spring of 1998. Unfortunately, he died before Good Friday that year His ...
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Back in the 1940s, as the young rector of Calvary Episcopal Church in Columbia, Missouri, Bishop Roger Blanchard wrote these meditations for a three hour Good Friday service. In 1997, his son Peter found the handwritten manuscript among files at the family home and encouraged his Dad to preserve his words for the family. Over the next few months, the Bishop revised and updated his work to reflect the 1990s and prepared to preach it one more time in the spring of 1998. Unfortunately, he died before Good Friday that year His family has finally published these meditations so that they might be shared with and treasured by all who read them.
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