The Sacred Paschal Triduum - 2 Good Friday
GOOD FRIDAY 2020
The world this year turns to become a sacrifice to God through many suffering and death. The world and family are united more than ever in helping, healing, sharing and feeding. This is what good Friday is all about, joining the Lord in his suffering and sacrifice. So that a Resurrection will take place from the sacrificed God.
Let us sacrifice ourselves to God; or rather let us go on sacrificing throughout every day and at every moment with the temptations, struggles and joys of our life.
If you are a Simon of Cyrene, take up the Cross and follow. If you are crucified with Him as a robber, acknowledge God as a penitent robber. Purchase salvation by your death; enter with Jesus into Paradise, Contemplate the glories that are there. And if you be a Joseph of Arimathæa, beg the Body from him that crucified Him, make your own that which cleanses the world. If you be a Nicodemus, the worshipper of God by night, bury Him with spices. If you be a Mary, or another Mary, or a Salome, or a Joanna, weep in the early morning. Be first to see the stone taken away, and perhaps you will see the Angels and Jesus Himself. Say something; hear His Voice reverence the Word, Keep the feast of the Resurrection; Be a Peter or a John; hasten to the Sepulcher, running together, running against one another, vying in the noble race. And even if you be beaten in speed, win the victory of zeal; not looking into the tomb, but Going in. And if, like a Thomas, you were left out when the disciples were assembled to whom Christ shows Himself, when you do see Him be not faithless; and if you do not believe, then believe those who tell you; and if you cannot believe them either, then have confidence in the print of the nails. Learn to know the mysteries of Christ, to save all mankind absolutely by His manifestation of Resurrection. Let us be one of these characters in His Sacrifice.
And He will Redeem the world, His creation in its best. Amen.
HAVE A VERY BLESSED SACRED TRIDUUM
Fr. Sathi Antony
Holy Thursday Blessing
Holy Week Thursday = Holy Thursday
MAUNDY THURSDAY = HOLY THURSDAY
The coming three days are very important for the whole world that is we are entering into the SACRED TRIDUUM, a three in one celebration in which many rituals and ceremonies are activated. For the total Healing and Restoration of God' Grace let us virtually and spiritually participate.
The Lamb that was slain has delivered us from death and given us new life.
For the sake of suffering humanity, he came down from heaven to earth, clothed himself in that humanity. He triumphed over the diseases of soul and body that were its cause, and by his Spirit, which was incapable of dying, he dealt man’s destroyer, death, a fatal blow. He was led forth like a lamb; he was slaughtered like a sheep. He freed us from our slavery to the devil, as he had freed Israel from the hand of Pharaoh. He sealed our souls with his own Spirit, and the members of our body with his own blood.
He is the One who covered death with shame and cast the devil into mourning, as Moses cast Pharaoh into mourning. He is the One who brought us out of slavery into freedom, out of darkness into light, out of death into life, out of tyranny into an eternal kingdom; He is the Passover that is our salvation.
It is he who endured every kind of suffering in all those who foreshadowed him. In Abel he was slain, in Isaac bound, in Jacob exiled, in Joseph sold, in Moses exposed to die. He was sacrificed in the Passover lamb, persecuted in David, dishonored in the prophets. He who was hung on the tree; it is he who was buried in the earth, raised from the dead, and taken up to the heights of heaven. He is the mute lamb, the slain lamb, the lamb born of Mary, the fair ewe. He was seized from the flock, dragged off to be slaughtered, sacrificed in the evening, and buried at night. On the tree no bone of his was broken; in the earth his body knew no decay. He is the One who rose from the dead, and who raised man from the depths of the tomb. The long-waited Re-Creation and Eternal Salvation for everyone.
NB: Watch for our video today by noon. You will be getting a very special Blessing.
Have A Very Blessed SACRED TRIDUUM.
Fr. Sathi Antony.
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