Good Friday – The Thief on the Other Cross: A Good Friday Monologue

I don’t belong here. I really don’t. Paradise is the last place I expected to end…

Good Friday – CELEBRATION OF THE LORD’S PASSION

Why do we save the Passion narratives for this week only?  Well, it’s the liturgically appropriate…

Good Friday – Tasting The Darkness of Good Friday

A year ago, partly in response to the popularity and controversy surrounding Mel Gibson’s movie, The…

Good Friday – The Sign

It was meant to be a sign to the people of the world who would defy…

Good Friday – The Hour of Divine Mercy

We have just listened to three verbal portraits of Christ’s Passion. The Prophet Isaiah foresees a…

Good Friday – He Took Our Suffering to Himself

Bottom line: In order to save us, Jesus not only endured terrible human suffering; he joined…

Good Friday – According to Your Word

Bottom line: Standing at the foot of the cross with Mary, we renew the pledge to…

Good Friday – Suffering Is Everything

Bottom line: This Good Friday we learn that through the suffering of Jesus we receive the…

Good Friday – When I Am Lifted Up

  Throughout Lent we hear these words as we pray the Way of the Cross: ‘We…

Good Friday – He Learned Obedience

Bottom line: Christian martyrs like Blessed Jose Luis Sanchez and Dietrich Bonhoeffer show what obedience means…