Chapel Talk, 2015 April 3: Good Friday / Tad Roach

In speaking of the world's acts of violence over this past year, Headmaster Tad Roach discusses the narrative of Good Friday and its theological meaning: "The simplicity and silence of a baby born in poverty in Bethlehem finds symmetry and coherence in an elemental anguished scene of suffering, acceptance, forgiveness, and grace. At Christmas we see a family, a baby, an expression of light and hope and reconciliation. On Good Friday we see Jesus embrace light and hope and reconciliation through the redemptive power of suffering. We need not avert our eyes, and distract ourselves with something more comforting. This is heroism, dignity, love, compassion, and grace. This is an expression of mercy."