Good Friday Message 2019

We on Good Friday wait for the approaching Easter morning with the message of the Resurrected One: “I was dead, and see, I am alive forever and ever; and I have the keys of Death and of Hades”, says Archbishop Urmas Viilma in his message.

Christ on the cross has also borne away our pain

Good Friday message by LWF Vice-President Urmas Viilma, Archbishop of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church

Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.” He replied, “Truly, I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”

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