Friday, 3/29/13
One of the bleakest feelings that come over us is
the one that hits us on Good Friday when we come into church to find the
sanctuary lamp out, and the doors swung open on an empty tabernacle. We feel
guilty of driving him off, of killing Our Lord.
One day a year our Catholic high school welcomes
prisoners serving long sentences. Each of them tells his or her story from
classroom to classroom, and at the breaks in the teachers’ lounge they speak of
the brief unguarded moments that ruined their lives.
For all the desolation we feel over the death of
Jesus, we need to remind ourselves that he died to make up for our crimes of
desertion. Peter took advantage of that when Judas didn’t. We take advantage of
what he did for us, calling this day Good Friday
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