Good Friday

 

Good Friday Around the World (2012)

The BBC has the pictures:

Click here for the rest.

 

Good Friday: Life Is not Fair

So often our challenges seem disproportionate and “unfair.” But what is asked of us in our trials is never more than what Christ and his mother endured.

Read on here.

 

 

Good Friday

O my people, what have I done to thee? Or wherein have I afflicted thee?

Answer me.

Good Friday:

… (from the senses pious, holy of the word “good”), is a religious holiday observed primarily by Christians commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and his death at Calvary. The holiday is observed during Holy Week as part of the Paschal Triduum on the Friday preceding Easter Sunday, and may coincide with the Jewish observance of Passover…

Collect:

Lord, by shedding his blood for for us, your Son, Jesus Christ, established the paschal mystery. In your goodness, make us holy and watch over us always. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.

 

What is Good Friday?

 

Cincinnati Reds Schedule Opening Day for Good Friday

Foul ball indeed!

A reader alerted me to this and called it “the most stupid marketing decision by anyone!”

Details:

Opening Day for the Cincinnati Reds will move to Friday in 2012, with an April 6 game against the Miami Marlins at Great American Ball Park.

Major League Baseball released the Reds’ 2012 schedule today. Click here to download a PDF.

For years, Opening Day for the Reds was held on a Monday. The 2011 season was the first year the season opened with the traditional Opening Day parade on a Thursday.

“The Reds already are working with the Findlay Market Parade organizers on Opening Day 2012,” said Reds Chief Operating Officer Phil Castellini. “No fans look forward to the start of baseball season more than ours.”

Sports fast becoming a religion in its own right.

Good Friday at Golgotha

More than ever on Good Friday, the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre is the heart of Christian Jerusalem. Since dawn, pilgrims have gathered in the courtyard, waiting to take part in the liturgy of the Passion at the altar of Golgotha … next to the rock in which the cross of Christ once stood.

Good Friday Around the World

The Telegraph has a picture gallery of some Good Friday observances around the world:

Christians around the world celebrate Good Friday with processions and crucifixions.

Stations of the Cross

Simple but effective meditations (and images) for the Stations of the Cross can be found here. These are going to be used by the Holy Father tonight in Rome.

HT:   Sevenoaks Ordinariate

There Is A Green Hill Far Away

There is a green hill far away,
outside a city wall,
where our dear Lord was crucified
who died to save us all.

We may not know, we cannot tell,
what pains he had to bear,
but we believe it was for us
he hung and suffered there.

He died that we might be forgiven,
he died to make us good,
that we might go at last to heaven,
saved by his precious blood.

There was no other good enough
to pay the price of sin,
he only could unlock the gate
of heaven and let us in.

O dearly, dearly has he loved!
And we must love him too,
and trust in his redeeming blood,
and try his works to do.