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Homily #120406 ( 17min) Play – Fr. Bonaventure preaches at the Good Friday communion service on how unbelievable the Gospel message is today, that God could submit himself to death.  But thanks be to God we have the highest authority available to help us believe, Holy Mother Church and Holy Scripture. Listen as Fr. Bonaventure sets forth how this great event is the culmination of all the history of man and the reparation of for every sin committed before and after this pivotal moment.
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Mass: Good Friday – Wkdy – Form: OF
Readings:
1st: isa 52:13-53:12
Resp: psa 31:2, 6, 12-13, 15-16, 17, 25
2nd: heb 4:14-16, 5:7-9
Gsp: joh 18:1-19:42

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Homily #100402 ( 23min) Play – On Good Friday all the Church bells are silent starting from yesterday at the Last Supper Mass, not to be heard again until the Vigil Mass on Saturday. It is replaced by the wooden clapper to remind us of the Cross and specifically of the nails being pounded through Our Lord’s venerable hands and into the Cross for the remission of our sins. Listen as Fr Bonaventure unfolds the events of Good Friday on this silence, looking forward to the joy of the bells of Easter.
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1: Isa 52:13-53:12
R: Ps 31:2,6,12-13,15-17,25
2: Heb 4:14-16; 5:7-9
G: Jn 18:1-19:42

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“His Blood Be on Us!”

Jesus, Man of Sorrows, the crime of the Jews reminds me of my own sinning. I heard Your Father say to me, “This is My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased,” and yet my sins made me cry out, “Away with Him! Crucify Him!” I have loved death and slain the God of my salvation. (more…)

Homily #090410 ( 08min) Play – Today is Good Friday the greatest day ever because it is the day that Christ won our salvation through such great suffering that flowed from his great love. Let us let us make an act of great thanksgiving.

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DIVINE MERCY NOVENA begins on Good Friday

The Divine Mercy Novena

Divine Mercy Devotionals at EWTN

Jesus asked that the Feast of the Divine Mercy be preceded by a Novena to the Divine Mercy which would begin on Good Friday. He gave St. Faustina an intention to pray for on each day of the Novena, saving for the last day the most difficult intention of all, the lukewarm and indifferent of whom He said:

“These souls cause Me more suffering than any others; it was from such souls that My soul felt the most revulsion in the Garden of Olives. It was on their account that I said: ‘My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass Me by.’ The last hope of salvation for them is to flee to My Mercy.”

In her diary, St. Faustina wrote that Jesus told her:

“On each day of the novena you will bring to My heart a different group of souls and you will immerse them in this ocean of My mercy … On each day you will beg My Father, on the strength of My passion, for the graces for these souls.”

The different souls prayed for on each day of the novena are:

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Homily #080321 ( 24min) Play – “It is consummated” (St John 19:30). As we honor the day of Our Lord’s Passion and Death, Fr Bonaventure reflects on this act of God’s love for man.
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