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Please, no political content here. I don’t care how much you just know your current events comments are related to these religious posts, don’t do it. You have numerous posts every day for politics. Use those.
I’ll be singing this today with our choir. So very mournful.
For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world……..
Jesus, I trust in You!
We adore your Cross, O Lord.
we praise and glorify your holy Resurrection,
for behold, because of the wood of a tree
joy has come to the whole world.
May God have mercy on us and bless us;
may he let his faced shed its light upon us
and have mercy on us
John 14 : 1-3
1Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. 2In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
We are holding a remembrance for the family for my Father who passed in January. We chose to hold it Easter afternoon. I am to read this passage. It is so very comforting. Our LORD has prepared a place for us and will receive us unto Himself. Maranatha!
First of all, I am very sorry for the loss of your father. What a perfect day for his service.
I don’t think it was a coincidence that I posted this and you were reading it today at the remembrance. Thank you God.
My father died the day before Easter many years ago. I figured he was having Easter in heaven with the Risen Lord. God comfort and be with you and your family.
Mt. 27:45 From noon until three in the afternoon darkness came over all the land.
The entire “old fashioned” ceremony and mass involving Stations of the Cross, on Good Friday, never fails to stir allot of emotion. I still re-read the older church booklets to capture the feeling.
Yes, in a few hours I will be watching the Good Friday Liturgy (pre-1955) from a Traditional Latin Mass parish. Now that is old….but VERY Christcentric.
The church I attended as a boy, had a pastor a 2 cantors who could Gregorian Chant, in Latin, with the best of them. Used send chills up and down your spine…
I thank my heavenly father and the Lord Jesus Christ for the cross. There God paid the penalty for my sin. Now all that is required is simple faith in Jesus Christ for the gift of eternal life.
Thankfully, the cross gives away to an empty tomb which is what I celebrate this weekend. A cross without an empty tomb is meaningless. I worship a resurrected Lord who is alive today risen from the dead. Amen!
“If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us” 2 Timothy 2:12
It’s all about Jesus, let us carry His cross today
He became sin for us Who knew no sin, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. (II Corinthians 5:21)
An amazing exchange……
Forever thankful my LORD JESUS for your taking the sins of the world upon your shoulders ( a propitiation ) that allows us to be reconciled back to our FATHER.
John 3:16
your mercies are new every morning.. thank you.
Thank you for this beautiful remembrance of Jesus Christ, our Savior!
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish but have Eternal Life.
Begotten not created big difference! Amen!
Thank you dear Lord for guiding me to this CTH site so that I can find daily inspiration and caring fellowship from my fellow Treepers…in your name I pray!
H/T “Reformation Charlotte” dot org
If the Savior of the world had to endure the events leading up to and then the crucifixion itself, what makes Good Friday so good?
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.
John 3:14-15
Imputed righteousness and penal substitution — that’s what makes Good Friday so good.
The doctrine of imputed righteousness is one of the most important doctrines in Christianity — it is what sets Protestants apart from other religions, such as Roman Catholicism. Imputed Righteousness is the doctrine that the righteousness of Jesus, who lived a perfectly sinless life, is given to those who would believe in Him.
For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us…
Romans 8:3-4
But in order for Jesus’ righteousness to be imputed to us, our sins had to be imputed to Him. And this is where the other important doctrine of penal substitution comes in. Jesus, who knew no sin, would bear our sins on the cross where God would then pour out all of His judgment — His hatred and wrath — on His only Son, Jesus.
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
2 Corinthians 5:21
Thankfully, the breadth of the payment for sins is sufficient to cover the sins of all who would believe and receive the free gift of God by grace through faith:
1 John 2:2 — “And He is the propitiation / atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours, but also for those of the whole world.“
The Outdoor Stations of the Cross
A little old town in the Midwest has a Catholic church called Saint Donatus.
The people who started the town were from the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
They built a chapel on a hill with a set of Stations of the Cross leading up to it.
Every Good Friday they have held a procession with hundreds of people attending, but last year it was cancelled.
The procession is back again this year with some changes.
Good Friday always makes me focus on the incredible sacrifice the Savior made for us in Gethsemane. Without that sacrifice the rest of the plan would have been thwarted. As Christ was in the Garden he had to make the sacrifice himself – taking the pain and penalty of all our sins on himself. Something that is sometimes forgotten in our Easter remembrances.
Why is today called “Good Friday” in the English Nations?
In Spain, today is called Viernes Santo (meaning “Holy Friday”), which is part of the Semana Santa (“Holy Week”).
Likewise, in French, today is known as Vendredi Saint.
Honestly, nothing really “good” on Good Friday, it’s a “dark, painful” day, IMHO. Unlike Saturday and, of course, Sunday!
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-27067136
Thanks.
I think the Germans have it most right: Karfreitag (Sorrowful Friday).
In norwegian we call it «Long Friday»,-Langfredag.
Thank you Menagerie. Just got back from Mass with my son, his friends from school sing this………….they do this in Latin, so beautiful.
Amazement of an Empty Tomb by Dr John MacArthur
https://www.gty.org/library/sermons-library/41-84
did a post of mine get lost…
Checked both of the bins, and I’m not seeing it. 🙁
You put it on the other Good Friday post, I think.
I am praying next year there will be a return to the Good Friday afternoon Mass that is so real and mournful and really makes me feel connected to Jesus and thank Him for what he has done for us. I pray that he help God loving law abiding people walk His talk.
There is no Mass on Good Friday. Veneration of the Cross which is not being done, so it is a continuation of Holy Thursday’s Mass, with Holy Communion only.
We had outdoor Stations today in a city park.
Loved this! Tears my heart out. Thanks for posting.
Thank you Menagerie!
Thanks for posting this.
This agnus dei chant seems appropriate
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy on us, Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy on us. Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, grant us peace
I thought you might find this interesting, regarding Christ’s harrowing of hell.
https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2021/04/harrowing-of-hell-david-arias.html
Coming here to this site has renewed my faith in God. Just saying a quiet word of praise for giving me redemption through Christ. My soul grieves yet rejoices on this day.
Thanks for posting this song. Sounds like something that Jesus would sing.
Jesus, remember me, when you come into your kingdom.