- We look back over the meditations of the week and recall what dangers, denials and darkness we have sensed within ourselves... .

- We look at Jesus Christ (ikon) laying everything open before him, one thing after the other and hear him say to us, "Yes, I know about your pain, your sin, your darkness.  I know it even better than you do yourself.  And yet I love you just as you are."  (It is important that we let this be said to us and that we are not just convincing ourselves.  God says it to us through God's word.) ... .