Good Friday Homily 2024

Why is it GOOD Friday?  We call it GOOD because the cross reminds us that we're a people set apart.  The cross we venerate gives meaning and purpose to our pain and suffering.  We don't come to Good Friday services just to relive or reimagine an event of long ago.  We do do that with the reading of the Passion Narrative and through the veneration of the cross, but we don't stop there.  We continue to bear our own crosses each and every day!  Instead of running from the like we tend to do, we should embrace them!  We need Good Friday because it makes sense of our daily sufferings and pain, because we're reminded that Jesus had them too!