MARY, OUR MOTHER: Picasso Greets Jesus in Chicago for Easter

Tuesday, April 03, 2012

Picasso Greets Jesus in Chicago for Easter

Thomas More Society Sponsors Easter Cross, Sunrise Service and Divine Mercy Project in Chicago's Public Square

CHICAGO, April 3, 2012 /Christian Newswire/ -- For a limited, time, Jesus will share center stage with the Daley dynasty in downtown Chicago. The Thomas More Society and private donors will sponsor "Jesus in Daley Plaza" that will feature a 14 foot tall cross from April 5 - 8 (Holy Thursday evening through Easter Sunday), Sunrise Resurrection service on April 8 and the "The Divine Mercy Project: Prayer in the Public Square," starting on Good Friday, April 6 through Easter Sunday, April 8.

ABOUT THE CROSS AND DIVINE MERCY: From Holy Thursday until Easter Sunday, the cross will be draped with purple linens and the Divine Mercy image will also be shrouded beneath with purple linens. On Easter Sunday, the linens on the cross will be changed to white, and the linens on the Divine Mercy image removed to reveal the 10-foot tall image of the resurrected Jesus.

PRAYER VIGIL: There will also be a 9-day Prayer Vigil that will begin at midnight Central Time after the Holy Thursday evening services and last through Sunday, April 15.

SUNRISE SERVICE: All are invited to the interdenominational Easter celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus on Sunday, April 8, from 6:30 AM to 8:00 AM Central.

"We are rejoicing that our First Amendment right as private citizens to express our religious beliefs freely and openly is still upheld in this traditional public forum, and we again thank the city of Chicago and the Public Building Commission for their continued cooperation in renewing our permit this year," said president and Tom Brejcha, president and chief counsel of the Thomas More Society.

Over twenty years ago, a permanent federal injunction was entered banning permanently any discrimination against religious speech by private citizens on Daley Plaza, where political rallies have been held routinely.

Location for all events and displays is 50 W Washington St., Chicago, IL 60602

About the Thomas More Society
Founded in 1997, the Chicago-based Thomas More Society is a national public interest law firm that seeks to restore respect in law for life, marriage, and religious liberty. The Society is a nonprofit organization wholly supported by private donations. For more information or to support the work of Thomas More Society, please visit www.thomasmoresociety.org.

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PSALM 71 SPEAKS TO MY HEART

Forsake Me Not When My Strength Is Spent

In you, O Lord, do I take refuge;
let me never be put to shame!
In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me;
incline your ear to me, and save me!

Be to me a rock of refuge,
to which I may continually come;
you have given the command to save me,
for you are my rock and my fortress.

Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked,
from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man.
For you, O Lord, are my hope,
my trust, O Lord, from my youth.
Upon you I have leaned from before my birth;
you are he who took me from my mother's womb.
My praise is continually of you.

I have been as a portent to many,
but you are my strong refuge.
My mouth is filled with your praise,
and with your glory all the day.
Do not cast me off in the time of old age;
forsake me not when my strength is spent.

For my enemies speak concerning me;
those who watch for my life consult together
and say, “God has forsaken him;
pursue and seize him,
for there is none to deliver him.”

O God, be not far from me;
O my God, make haste to help me!
May my accusers be put to shame and consumed;
with scorn and disgrace may they be covered
who seek my hurt.

But I will hope continually
and will praise you yet more and more.
My mouth will tell of your righteous acts,
of your deeds of salvation all the day,
for their number is past my knowledge.

With the mighty deeds of the Lord God I will come;
I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone.

O God, from my youth you have taught me,
and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.

So even to old age and gray hairs,
O God, do not forsake me,
until I proclaim your might to another generation,
your power to all those to come.
Your righteousness, O God,
reaches the high heavens.
You who have done great things,
O God, who is like you?

You who have made me see many troubles and calamities
will revive me again;
from the depths of the earth
you will bring me up again.
You will increase my greatness
and comfort me again.

I will also praise you with the harp
for your faithfulness, O my God;
I will sing praises to you with the lyre,
O Holy One of Israel.
My lips will shout for joy,
when I sing praises to you;
my soul also, which you have redeemed.

And my tongue will talk of your righteous help all the day long,
for they have been put to shame and disappointed
who sought to do me hurt.

Tuesday, April 03, 2012

Picasso Greets Jesus in Chicago for Easter

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