FR REMI HOMILIES/REFLECTIONS AND SERMONS

Homily for Good Friday of the passion of the Lord  Isaiah 52:13-53:12; Ps.31; Heb.4:14-16; 5:7-9; John 18:1-19:42 Lessons from Good Friday At last He has been caught! The Jesus who had been confronting and reprimanding the Scribes and the Pharisees; the Jesus who worked miracles even on Sabbath day (not minding that it infuriated the authorities), the Jesus who had the capacity to know the thought of men and always knew when questions were put forward to Him just to test him; the Jesus whom the authorities have often time wanted to arrest and persecute but for fear of the crowds who held Him to be a prophet; the Jesus who had often slipped through the crowds when He was about to be arrested; the Jesus who had made possible all that was thought impossible, including raising the dead; this Jesus has finally been caught. He’s been publicly scourged and humiliated. He’s labeled a criminal and He carried this label to the grave. It is disheartening that the last identity given to this m...