Good Friday

The Incredible Procession

Maureen O'Brien April 18, 2025

Good Friday is the most holy of days: The Veneration of the Cross is stark and sorrowful, yet so full of pure adoration from ordinary people.

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Jesus on a cross | Photo by Rui Silva sj on Unsplash

Embracing Good Friday

Brian Doyle March 12, 2025

Every year there’s a new surprise.

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This Is Not the End

Vanesa Zuleta Goldberg March 29, 2024

Christ knew what it was like to suffer. Christ knew the gaping pain of yearning for an embrace when those around you cause you pain.

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Pope Francis blesses visitors at the end of his weekly general audience in the Vatican's Paul VI Audience Hall Jan. 17, 2024. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Pope writes to Holy Land Catholics living under ‘dark clouds of Good Friday’

OSV News March 29, 2024

Pope Francis told Catholics in the Holy Land that he knows Holy Week this year is "so overshadowed by the Passion and, as yet, so little by the Resurrection."

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Lent with St. Clare: Good Friday

Franciscan Media April 7, 2023

The enormity of Christ offering up his life for us is so great that it will take continual meditation to try and wrap our heads around it. It always will. Clare knew that.

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Reflect St. Dismas is my favorite saint. Tradition tells us that he is the man known as The Good Thief whose story come to us in the Gospel of Luke. Broken and humiliated, he hangs on a cross next to ...

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