Good Friday: How Does the Passion and Death of Christ Speak to You?

Fr. John Cusick

On this Good Friday, please take a few precious moments and be still and quiet and reflect on the Passion and Death of Our Lord Jesus Christ. If at all possible, it would be wonderful to take 5-10 minutes and hold a crucifix in your hand. If that is not possible, you can always find a picture of the crucifixion of Christ on the internet. Put that picture on your screen.

As you look upon or reflect upon the Passion and Death of Christ, here is a question you might want to answer:

“How does the Passion and Death of Christ speak to you?”

Over the years, I have found a number of short responses from other people. Here are some of them. I will leave room after the last printed one for you to add your own.

May this Good Friday be a sacred day in your life and mine. May we realize how deeply God loves us. Nothing gets in the way of the Lord’s love – not even death.

Be blessed.

Fr. John Cusick

Some Reflections of Others:

• The Passion and Death of Jesus completely summarizes who He is and who we are, if we choose to call ourselves by His name: Christian.
• The Christian revelation discovered in the Passion and Death of Jesus takes place at the intersections of love and violence, of reconciliation and rage, of the offer of love and the sentence of death.
• Jesus reveals His Father as an everlasting offer of forgiveness and reconciliation – even in the face of human violence.
• The cross rises in our midst as a symbol of God’s everlasting offer of forgiveness and reconciliation and humanity’s everlasting refusal to accept it and to live it.
• Christ hangs on the cross until the end of time to symbolize God’s offer of a new way of being alive and people’s refusal to accept it.
• In the Passion and Death of Christ we see clearly and vividly that His Father is an endless flow of life and love into God’s people. He takes that life and love into the world of death. In other words, nothing and no human experience are devoid of God’s everlasting offer of life, love, forgiveness and reconciliation.
• Divine love does not stop at human mortality.
• Your reflection: