+ J. M. J. +
Homily Outline for Good Friday
In our human experience, we often encounter places, circumstances, experiences, from which it seems God is absent, or at minimum very distant.
We grieve, we mourn, we are sad
We fail, we are discouraged, we despair
We sin, we hurt others, we hurt ourselves, we are hurt by others
We get sick, our loved ones experience illness, we encounter death
We struggle to believe, we doubt, God seems to be silent
We pray, we struggle to pray, we cry out and it seems no one is listening.
On Good Friday, every one of these mysteries, all of these dark places are present, in the liturgy, in the readings, in our hearts. Where is God?
This Friday is GOOD because God is here, He is in the midst of all of this with us, and the end of our liturgy today is not the end of the story.
In our solemn intercessions, we place before God the needs of the whole world, our own needs.
In our Adoration of the Cross we bow before the mystery of God made man encountering even our mortal death
In our Holy Communion we receive the fruit of the sacrifice, to sustain us through the coming hours of waiting, to sustain us in our fast, to prepare us for the joy that comes on the other side of death.
+ A. M. D. G. +
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