By Audrey Huang, BR '21.

“When he received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.” (John 19:30, NIV)

What did You mean Jesus, when You said that it is finished, it is done?

By Angela Eichhorst ’22. Angela is a freshman living in Canaday.

I have a quiet confidence. It is still but certain and based upon God’s love and words of truth. It is a confidence that my God loves to give me good things. He turns towards me relentlessly. He “answers me”, “defends me”, “sends me help”, “strengthens me” and “accepts me”.

By Lillian Yuan, Pierson College '21. Lillian is majoring in Economics and Cognitive Science.

I violate my fast; I fall short.
I shower others with affectations; I fall short.
I lash out in pride; I fall short.
I chase after security; I fall short.
I lust; I fall short.I crave imperfect love; I fall short.I am human; I fall short.

This is part of a syndicated series for Lent 2019 with Harvard’s Christian Journal Ichthus. Visit Ichthus at http://www.harvardichthus.org | By Daniel Sutton, visiting student and recent Oxford graduate.

For a number of years, I thought Christianity was just this – it was a set of rules, through which God told me how to do the right thing and how be a good, respectable person, or at least look like one to the outside world. It seems that many of the crowd, or many of the people Luke was writing to, thought likewise.

By Raquel Sequeira, TD ’21. Raquel is majoring in Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry.

Repeated failures during Lent are merciful reminders to fall to our knees, the posture that is required of us when we take communion and say: “we do not presume to come to this your table, oh merciful Lord, trusting in our own righteousness, but in your manifold and great mercies.”