Some Meditations for Good Friday

One of the most powerful things we can meditate on is the Passion of Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Sermons

calendar_today April 7, 2023
schedule 18:30

Good Friday Meditation: Re-Establishing Broken Contracts to Obtain Peace and Avoid God's Wrath, Part 3

Another simple way to see all of history might be to view the EFFECTS of a fulfilled or broken contract. If terms are fulfilled, peace and order result. If not fulfilled, then there is ENTROPY! Let us...

calendar_today April 7, 2023
schedule 18:44

Good Friday Meditation: Re-Establishing Broken Contracts to Obtain Peace and Avoid God's Wrath, Part 2

May we never doubt that God keeps His contracts. Men, even those high up like a Caiphas and Aaron, may break them, such that all under them will suffer, but when we keep to our part, God will give us...

calendar_today April 7, 2023
schedule 19:26

Good Friday Meditation: Re-Establishing Broken Contracts to Obtain Peace and Avoid God's Wrath, Part I

One simple way to view all history is to see it through the lens of a contract or covenant. Adam and Eve entered into a contract with God in Paradise. The terms were simple. “Of every tree of paradise...

calendar_today April 15, 2022
schedule 16:08

Egalitarianism and the Cross

For our meditation today, let us compare two things… the desire of fallen man as opposed the desire and will of His Majesty. To make this clear, perhaps we can rephrase the last temptation to come dow...

calendar_today April 15, 2022
schedule 17:46

Good Friday Meditation: Rejection Spirituality -- Rejection Therapy

We can ask why does God give us so many beautiful things? At first all of these are useful in serving God. But due to our fallen nature, we easily become distracted… So, no matter what, in due time, t...

calendar_today April 15, 2022
schedule 16:25

Good Friday Meditation: Ingredients Required to Initiate a Passion

The major ingredients, if we may call them such, of a passion… (i) a betrayal from deep within, nay even from the sanctuary of the Church or inner sanctum of our hearts. This is Judas. It cannot start...

calendar_today April 2, 2021
schedule 08:17

It Is Finished

Our dearest Lord preached a wondrous sermon from the wooden pulpit of His Holy Cross…a sermon made up of seven last words…seven memorable phrases. The sixth word from the Holy Cross was short, but...

calendar_today April 2, 2021
schedule 15:51

Good Friday Meditation: Mary is Co-Redemptrix

The first papal usage of the term occurs in an allocution by Pope Pius XI (1922-1939) to pilgrims from Vicenza on 30 November 1933: From the nature of His work the Redeemer ought to have associated Hi...

calendar_today April 2, 2021
schedule 16:16

Good Friday Meditation: Maximizing True Love with Our Lady Co-Redemptrix

Struggling to understand the meaning of Suffering and Pain? Take your pain and suffering … adding on more sacrifices of your own, unite them with His Majesty and give them to Our Lady, Co-Redemptrix...

calendar_today April 2, 2021
schedule 15:17

Good Friday Meditation: Learning from God How to Love

Why suffering? It puts the love of God on display for us. With this example and understanding, we, in turn, learn how to love correctly.

calendar_today April 2, 2021
schedule 15:20

Good Friday Meditation: Good Friday the Day of Mercy

On that first Good Friday…on that most holy and solemn day of our Lord’s Death…the Heavenly Father was given the greatest extrinsic glory that has ever been offered by man to God. Never before i...

calendar_today April 14, 2017
schedule 12:47

Good Friday Meditation: Continuation of the Passion of Jesus Christ

The sufferings of Our Blessed Lord, Jesus Christ, is for ALL time... for ALL sin.

calendar_today April 14, 2017
schedule 10:47

Good Friday Meditation: It Takes a Judas to Initiate a Passion

Time and time again we find that a passiontide for the Church or even a nation begins with a high level betrayal. But we too act as Judas when we betray His Majesty by committing mortal sin.

calendar_today April 14, 2017
schedule 13:51

Good Friday Meditation: The Sword of Truth and Malchus

Although we have the truth, often represented by a sword in the Sacred Scripture and specially entrusted to Peter, we must be careful how we wield such a sword lest we strike off the ears of our liste...

calendar_today April 3, 2015
schedule 9:51

Good Friday Meditation part 1: Adam and Christ on Friday

Let us deepen our understanding as to why this day is called \"Good.\" In poetic fashion and using many biblical allusions and traditions, Father draws many parallels between the first Friday of Creat...

calendar_today April 3, 2015
schedule 13:08

Good Friday Meditation part 2: Six Reasons for Christ's Suffering

St. Vincent Ferrer provides six reasons for why Christ suffered so much for our redemption and salvation. These deal with Adam's sin and fulfilling Sacred Scripture: (1) for bodily refreshment, (2) to...

calendar_today April 3, 2015
schedule 16:25

Good Friday Meditation part 4: Jesus and Judas

The permission for sin is a positive act on God's part, and is therefore a holy act. He has a proportionate reason. St. Augustine teaches, "God brings good out of evil." St. Irenaeus taught that God w...

calendar_today April 3, 2015
schedule 15:20

Samson and Delilah: Types of Christ and His Church

calendar_today April 3, 2015
schedule 14:07

Good Friday Meditation part 3: Christ has Primacy over Death

Christ has the primacy in all things, including death! He lay down His life on His own first. Historically, He did so at the First Mass (Last Supper). Sacramentally, He does so at every Mass in the do...