For those who attend Holy Cross Lutheran, this scene would bring back memories of long ago. They would remember going to church on Good Friday and be looking at the front of the church all stripped bare with only a black cloth draped over the cross.
They might remember from their youth or even some recent year. As the evening service on Good Friday would continue, the sanctuary would grow dark and everyone would leave in darkness and in silence.
Such Fridays bring home to the Christian as much as any word where we read "He was crucified for us."
