Good Friday

My god my lord why have you forsaken me

U have forsaken me

Lord into your hands I surrender my sprite

This is the wood òf the cross on which the savior of the world is hung come let us adore

Today is good Friday and it is good because it is on this day jesus gave up himself on the wood of the cross so that we might live forever. This is the cross which hung the savior of the world. In the second part of the good Friday service we have the veneration of the cross.

We do not worship object we venerate or adore the object.  We have eucharistic adoration and many of us don't have a problem with it so why when we replace the eucharistic with the cross why there an uproar when it's the same thing we are adoring.

One of the profound statement made my jesus is my god my lord why have you forsaken me show that jesus was truly human even though he was Divine jesus was left all alone my his Disciple and even god but jesus continue with his father's mission down to the last letter and when it was done he gave up his spirit.

This shows us that we have to try our very best to remain strong in our trial and temptation even when there seems to be no hope. Why should we keep hope even when it is impossible look at the 2 thieves who were crucified with him 1 on the left 1 on the right. 1 of them lost hope because death was looking at him in the face thus he saw no reason to ask for forgiveness but the but the other one didn't lose hope even when death was looking at him in the face he ask for forgiveness and he was save at the 11th hour.  Remember that when u see 1 set of footprint in the sand remember that God is caring u thought the areas in your life which u can't handle don't jump out of his loving hands and do it alone always call on him.

Good Friday

The Final Enemy

God hates death and wants nothing to do with it. Listen to the words of Ezekiel the prophet: “I will open your graves and have you rise from them” (Ezekiel 37:12). These are spoken just after the marvelous scene of the enlivening of the dry bones.

There is an important clue here, by the way. Those dry bones were there because a battle had been fought on that spot. Death, the fear of death, the threat of death, putting to death—all of this broods over human life and grounds sin and oppression. Think for a moment: all sin flows finally from a fear of death. Every tyrant who has ever lived has succeeded through awakening in people the fear of death.

But what if death, as we know it and experience it, is not at all what God intended? What if it were something that God wanted to deal with once and for all, to get rid of? The book of Genesis tells us clearly that death came from sin. Mind you, death is not the dissolution of the body—that seems to be part of the natural process. But death as we experience it—as something fearful, horrible, terrifying—comes from having turned from God.

On this Good Friday, it's important to remember that Jesus came primarily as a warrior whose final enemy is death. I know how easy it is to domesticate Jesus, presenting him as a kindly and inspiring moral teacher, but that is not how the Gospels present him. He is a cosmic warrior who has come to do battle with all of those forces that keep us from being fully alive.

Throughout the Gospels, Jesus deals with the effects of death and a death-obsessed culture: violence, hatred, egotism, exclusion, false religion, phony community.

But the final enemy he must face down is death itself. And he does it on a cross.