Good Friday
Gospel – John 18:1-19:42
The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ
“It is accomplished”. What is accomplished in the cross? The perfect manifestation of the love of God which embraces the human suffering in all its forms. God, in the person of Jesus Christ embraced the humanity. Jesus identified Himself with us in everything except sin. He is sinless. The whole scene of the trial of Jesus in the reading is the way to understand that Jesus is blameless. Jesus is condemned to death for our sins. He took upon himself our sins. He became our redemption by accepting our sins and suffering the consequences of our sins. The greatest consequence of our sin is the death. He embraced that too so that He can give us His life out of His love for us. His love which even death was unable to conquer. Jesus giving His Mother over to John and giving John over to Mother Mary as son shows the beginning of a new family born out of the Cross. New family of God which stands under the cross of Christ to embrace each other in suffering and in pain. Let’s reflect: How much I realize what is accomplished in the Cross!
Friday 29 March
