Pope John Paul II asked Cardinal Ratzinger in March 2005 to prepare the Way of The Cross meditations for Good Friday. Less than a month later Cardinal Ratzinger would be elected to the Chair of Peter. Here are those mediations along with John Paul II’s writing on the meaning of Suffering.
Category: SACRED TRIDUUM
Sacred Triduum celebrates Christ’s suffering, death and resurrection. Here I show why this reveals who we are and why it is our reason to live. It opens with the evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper, remembers Jesus’ on Good Friday, reaches its climax in the Easter Vigil (celebrating the risen Lord) and closes on Easter Sunday.
What Is The Paschal Mystery
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Sacred Triduum or Three Days “The Church was born of the Paschal mystery,” wrote John Paul II in his 2003 Encyclical, Ecclesia de Eucharistia.…
By His Wounds We Are Healed
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ISAIAH Ch 53 Who would believe what we have heard? To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? He grew up…
