Good Friday
First reading – Isaiah 52:13-53:12
“And yet ours were the sufferings he bore, ours the sorrows he carried. But we, we thought of him as someone punished, struck by God, and brought low. Yet he was pierced through for our faults, crushed for our sins”. These words of Isaiah explain Good Friday. Who died for us? How did he die? And why did he die? Jesus Christ, the Son of God, faced a violent death on the cross, for our sins. In Jesus Christ, the world sees something never told, the world witness something never heard before. Before Jesus Christ kings stand before him. In Him the power of the Lord has been revealed. He faced the violent death, a death after much pain and sufferings. The pain and sufferings due to our sins. He accepted all those sufferings and pain and in Him those sufferings and pain are transformed into forgiveness and reciprocal love. In Him the world changed. The humanity changed. In Cross Jesus carried our sorrows and bore our sufferings. In Him our human nature acquired a totally new potentiality. A potentiality to embrace God as a Father who forgives all our sins by accepting the unique sacrifice of Christ. The whole world received a heart which can be opened totally to the plan of God. The death of Jesus on the cross is the dawn of our hope, even in the darkest nights of our life.
Friday 7 April
