The Cross - Good Friday Homily 2022
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- The Liturgy of Good Friday brings all Christians face to face with the Cross of Christ and we should never reduce it to a mere symbol. Instead we should accept the cross for what it was meant to be- a brutal instrument of terror, torture and death imposed by humanity’s propensity towards cruelty and violence. Before the cross was a symbol of our faith it was a weapon to foment fear and accomplish subjugation.
This is the truth about the cross but because God in Christ accepted the cross and conquered it through his divine love, we Christians do not fear the cross, but instead we hold it up, display to all those worldly powers that would use fear and threats as a means of coercion and control. We hold up the cross, as a taunt to the fallen powers of the world proclaiming to them- you think this frightens us?
God in Christ overcame the horror of the cross and in this sign the fallen powers of the world are subverted, sin, death and the devil are vanquished. It is in this sign, the sign of the cross, that we see the victory of God in Christ is assured!
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I am not Catholic, but I have now watched this 3 times, and shared it multiple times. What a powerful message. Thank you so much.
Thank You Father!
Love to listen to your sermons I pray you will be the next Pope 🙏
Because of your videos I became a Catholic over 7 years ago!
Because of Jesus Christ my sins are forgiven ✝️ God bless You Father 🙏
Amen... Jesus Christ son of God have mercy on me a sinner
Great message
Wow Bishop, if only you knew how timely these words have been in my life. How this was exactly the answer to so many questions I had. How He has spoken through you to tell me EXACTLY what I needed to hear. Thank you!
Hello Jaime Rivera, I love your videos on Pocketnow! Glad to see you here in Bishop Barron's comment section.🙂
From curse to salvation…Thank You 🙏🏾❤️🙏🏾
“For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.”
1 Corinthians 1:18
What a beautiful homily, Bishop. God bless you
Thank you Bishop Barron! My faith has become stronger because of you. Listening to your words always opens my heart! May God bless you always.
This channel is one reason why I'm so interested in the Catholic faith
I started listening to Father Barron a decade ago and read his books, with Matthew Kelly's easy explanations of Catholicism. I converted late in life and feel so blessed I did.
I've never seen a mass with a life size cross being passed around. It is so beautiful. Thank you, Bishop. God Bless us all.
@@johnfisher247 what do you mean, vaudeville? Like commercial entertainment? Or do they authentically believe?
Thanks Bishop! Love that small, personal, California missionary style church.
Bishop Barron, thank you so very much for the Homily. It was beautiful. It was historic. It was healing. It IS relevant.
Our Father who art in Heaven,
Hallowed by thy name,
Thy Kingdom come,
Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.
And lead us
Not into temptation but
Deliver us
From evil.
For thine is the Kingdom
And the power
And the GLORY
Forever.
Amen
//
Bless you and your passion for The Christ.
May he grant you forever his passion to teach, to heal, to forgive and give from the bounties of his Love the compassion for and to his harvest until he comes again.
Pray for me as you pray for the least of those in his creation. Pray for his guidance and my obedience to his will in my life. I will pray the same for you.
As always may God richly bless your message and life. He has done so with me by you.
I thank God for you!
Thank you for all that you have taught me personally to date, Bishop Barron. I look forward to each and every Homily experience.
God bless you Bishop Barron and the world also. Have a blessed Easter.
Glory to God in the Highest.
This without a doubt, the best explanation of Good Friday that I have ever heard.
Lord we believe!
I love Jesus Christ with all my heart, all my soul, all my strength and all my mind. Thank you God for loving me so much that you were willing to go through the agony in the garden, pain and humiliation at the cross and even death. Every single day I let you down in some way and I'm sorry. All that I have to offer you is a broken and contrite heart.
Christ The King
Bishop, thanksgiving for you and your amazing explanation of the crucifix. Thank you for sharing your amazing insight and explaining many things we don’t understand. God bless you and to always help and answer our silent questions on so many things. Praying for you, please pray for us🙏Amen🤙✝️🙏
Que bella comunidad bendiciones!!!
Reminds me of Jordan Peterson's take on the crucifixion during his most recent Joe Rogan podcast. However, Bishop Barron takes the connection between the serpent in the desert and the Cross of Christ from a mere psychological interpretation of the nature of fear to a deeper and more robust theological interpretation. That God is with us in the most literal way in times of pain and suffering because of the Cross of Christ. God bless you.
How very excruciating it is to hear your homily , Bishop. Syalom
Amazing homily, so much to think about, thank you so much Bishop Barron for posting this.
Amen Bishop Barron, the cross reminds as the passion and death of Christ and the salvation and redemption of humanity. God bless
Thank you Bishop Barron for this beautiful and touching sermon. GOD bless you. Stay safe. ➕❤
Tq Bishop for helping us to open our eyes and overcome our fears..as been said; Redemption, Liberation, Salvation & Resurrection only can b find on d Cross 🙏
As always Bishop a truly great talk every time I listen I learn more ! Thank you.
Amen. Lord, by your cross and resurrection, you have set us free. 🙏
You are a blessing to humanity Bishop Barron.
May God continue to bless you Bishop 🙏🏼❤️ I love listening to you speak in such a loving and inspiring way. Now I know how to respond when others ask me why I wear the cross.
Thank you Bishop
Blessed be the name of the Lord!
Thank you for this 🙏🏽
Bishop Barron thank you for your beautiful reflection on Christ crucified! Thank you for bringing Him closer into our hearts!
It has always been a troublesome point for me to understand that I was healed by the cross, by the blood, by the wounds, by the suffering of Jesus. He carried our sins, etc.where is the justice of that? Why did He had to suffer for MY sins? Well, for the first time in my life I saw a light illuminating this spot. Explained the way you did it, Bishop Barron, makes sense. Thank you.
God Bless Fernando, Isaiah 53:5 ''But he was wounded for our transgressions, and he was crushed for our iniquities, and the punishment that made us whole was upon him, and by his bruises we are healed.'' - Prophesied 700 years before Christ.
It all becomes so clear. The most complex of things. Thanks, Bishop!
I am weak. I am anxious about returning to my church because of the evils of this world. I feel so horribly disconnected from my Church family. My soul yearns for the Mass and yet I can’t bring myself to return to the church I grew up in. Please pray for me brothers and sisters. I am lost, I love the Lord Jesus Christ, I pray regularly at home, I read the Bible, but Mass has become so horribly distant to me.
Take that first step in order to receive the Eucharist ! Just focus on that. If you can get yourself to Adoration that can be the bridge to get you back to Mass. Your desire is strong. I will pray for this to happen for you !!
Undeniably, this man, Bishop Barron, is on the way to being our new Venerable Archbishop Fulton J Sheen! God bless you always, bishop Barron
BEAUTIFUL HOMILY..THANK YOU
Bishop Barron has truly and humbly taken on the role of Servant of God.Your homily on Holy Thursday was wonderful The Master has need of it. May God blesw you as you continue to serve.
I don’t want to be reconciled to a church that accepts the sins that I reject.
Lord Jesus Christ unite us through Your Love ❤️
St. John Vianney, St. John Bosco, St. Robert Bellarmine, Fulton Sheen, St. Peter Damian, Saint Augustine, St. Mary of Egypt,
St. Catherine of Siena, St. Aloysius Gonzaga, St. Agnes, St. Maria Goretti, St. Agatha, Bl. Laura Vicuña, Bl. Antonia Mesina, St. Joan of Arc, Bl. Pierina Morosini, St. Solange, St. Agostina Pietrantoni, Bl. Alexandrina Maria da Costa, St. Mary MacKillop, pray for us.
I keep reading the book of John today. I’m trying to let what happened sink in.
Beautiful church and powerful homily; intriguing idea to move the cross through the congregation too
I had a chance to experience that past Good Friday. There was something about passing of the Cross, it made me realize the weight of the Cross in a single moment that was tremendous for me, what more for Jesus, he carried it all the way to the hill of Golhotha. Unimaginable weight and physical torment.
What a beautiful sermon you gave for us. Since it was all about the Passion reading and how the cross comes all the way down to us. Hope you have a Good Friday and God bless you.
Thank you, good servant to the Lord, our God.
This is a person in a Red Dress Marc Record.
Wonderful homily Bishop! Happy Easter to you and the team!
"A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."
(John 13: 34-35)
Great homily! Definitely have to share it with my kiddos! ❤️
beautiful sermon in a beautiful church
Beautiful… thank you, Bishop Barron.
Bishop baron Thank you and God bless you
I very much needed to hear a sermon about the crucifixion that wasn't boiler plate 'YOUR SINS PUT HIM THERE!' it's been a few years of struggling with my Church... Not exactly my faith , but the failings of the institution the church has become and it has been more of a stumbling block than a balm for me. Hearing things out the way you have realty puts flesh on the "follow me" call vs the "worship me" which to me seems the church's fall back lazy teaching... Anyway, thank you and Happy Easter
Thank you Bishop Barron. I gotta have to share this Homily!
Blessed be the Holy Face of Christ.
There He is, and there he is, Bishop’s beautiful son of God. Thank you.
Amen❤🕊🙏❤️🔥✝️
Wow...thanks for the good reflection, Bp B
HEAVENLY FATHER THANK YOU FOR YOUR LOVE VICTORVILLE C A
AMEN!
The truth, the reality
Beautiful ❤
Аmen 🙏🏻
Amen
Thank you so much, dear Bishop, for this deep reflection. I now understand the meaning of the Cross in a way I have not understood it before, namely, seeing all my fears and troubles and sufferings fully demonstrated there and seeing even more how God accompanies me through them and liberates me from them.
Thank you and may God keep you forevermore. Have a blessed Easter, everyone♥️
Usus a Port-a-Pottied.
Amazing
We're seeing the resurrection in light of the crucifixion. Bishop Robert Barron, how often would Mary's first question at the Annunciation, How can it be?, have been repeated by Mary, the Apostles, and by the disciples? When Mary held her sons dead body, How can this be? When St. Mary of Magdalene and St. Peter first saw the empty tomb, How can it be? When the resurrected Jesus appeared "in the breaking of the bread" on the road to Emmaus, How can this be? Isn't this because Our Lord God is always here? If Jesus, the Son of God, was ever once here, then, wouldn't God's presence always be with us? For is it not "in the breaking of the bread" that becomes His body in which Christ Jesus, Himself is present at every Mass?
Huzzah!!!!!!
🙏❤️🙏
Please teach spiritual directors to help us each have this journey of looking at our fears and dealing with them.
Hi there, just wanted to see if you could also post your videos on Rumble? Our family is watching more Rumble these days then anything. 😀
Where is this beautiful church!
The Santa Barbara Mission, St. Barbara's Parish. Come visit !!!
Does anyone know what the song that plays at the beginning is called? It is amazing.
You are right dearest bishop.
You are truly a voice in the desert.
But still I don't understand why all the "good christians" allowed their beloved to die in solitude during the lock down.
And the Pope alone in st Peter square to avail the most inhumane reaction.
I know my redeemer liveth.
But this church really let me down.
Sorry.
And all my love for you.
Really.
What is the song at the end that bishop is singing?
what church is this?
JESUS EASTER SONG !
There once was a traveler who was driven out of town
On His shoulders was a burden that pushed Him to the ground.
On His head was a crown made of thorns from a bush
And the street was so crowded the guards had to push.
They beat Him with nine tails each step of the way
Where Christ found the strength, only God could say.
They stopped at some sandstone at the top of a hill
There was a round hole the cross would soon fill.
They made Him lie down upon that wood cross
There they nailed Him to prove who was boss.
The beam was up-ended by the muscles of men
As it plunged down the hole it was carved to fit in.
Then Jesus looked up at the lightning that flew
And cried, God, my Father, they know not what they do.
They crucified our Lord as His blood flowed to Earth
If inside you believe, you feel what love is worth.
They wrapped Him in loincloth when He was taken down
Then carefully removed His scarlet stained crown.
They placed Him in a cave with a large, round, stone door
Before sealing forever, they lay lilies on the floor.
It wasn't very long, and the stone was rolled away
For Jesus resurrected, to rise on Easter Day!
No greater love has ever been shown
No greater love has ever been known.
THANK YOU FOR WHO YOU ARE IN YOUR HEART !
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My Lord: Bravo 👏 “It is accomplished” is perhaps a better translation (from the Greek) of Jesus’ last words - especially when you consider What was accomplished! “…finished” cannot be right….it had only just begun! ⛪️
Bishop Barron, thanks. How do I see my fears and anxieties heal or disappear by looking at the cross? By comparing them to the suffering of Jesus? By giving them to Him? Or, as with Moses, by Divine Grace? Pardon my lack of wisdom. If not Bishop Barron, anyone can help me understand, would be appreciated..
They’re embraced by the divine love.
Thanks Bishop
God bless you
Bishop, someone is faking your channel. I saw the same in others. See reply of my comment yesterday.
It's sad that Rome and the East turn the gift of the Cross and Christ's completed salvific work for us into some type of unfinished struggle to which man must further merit something.
sad that you are an heretic.
Bishop,
Is it possible that someone else might be faking your channel?
I believe I was replied in another comment I made by someone faking it was you.
All the time…
Just ignore them.
Nga nn
Amicus meus osculi me tradidit signo.
Jesus Christ was in a calm state of Samadhi on the Cross....The supreme yogi perfectly married to two states of experience...supreme agony and supreme ecstasy........The Ecstasy had........more power than...... the Agony......Hence the calm feeling of highest achievement. Kundalini achieving the gold energy of the Sun(He-lo-i).and the Light energy of the 1st Ray (Adonai)...of the Elohim.....The Bronze Serpent (kundalini of the Bronze Age)......destined to achieve its 7th and final dispensation in the Age of Virgo....15,120 A.D.......in the Immaculate Perception....fallen state of humanity restored to the "even of heaven"....with the GOLD KUNDALINI ENERGY...(Christ).........shining in infinity.....THE IMMACULATE PERCEPTION.......practicing yoga incorrectly is dangerous ....performing it perfectly is enlightenment.
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From - Iris Gonzalez-Caulder
John 18:23
" If I said something wrong,
Jesus replied,
testify as to what is wrong.
But if I spoke the truth,
why did you strike me ? "
For - JMC and/or RMC
and America
John 18:20 - 22 and 24 - 40
20 "I have spoken
openly to the world,"
Jesus replied.
" I always taught
in synagogues or
at the temple,
where all the Jews
come together.
I said nothing in secret.
21 Why question me.
Surely they know what I said.
22 When Jesus said this,
one of the official struck him in the face.
" Is this the way you answer the high priest?"
he demanded.
24 Then,
Annas sent him,
still bound, to Caiaphas
the high priest.
25 As Simon Peter
stood warming himself,
he was asked,
You are not one of
his disciples, are you ?"
He denied it, saying,
I am not."
26 One of the high priest's servants, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, challenged him,
" Didn't I see you with him in the olive grove?"
27 Again Peter denied it,
and at that moment the rooster began to crow.
Then the Jews led Jesus
from Caiaphas to the palace of the Roman governor.
By now it was early morning, and to avoid ceremonial uncleanness
the Jews did not enter the palace; they wanted to be able to eat the Passover.
29 So Pilate came out to them and asked, What charges are you bringing against this man ?"
30 " If he were not a criminal " they replied,
we would not hand him over to you."
31 Pilate said, Take him yourselves and judge him by your own law."
" But we have no right to execute anyone, " the Jews objected.
32 This happen so that the words Jesus had spoken indicating the kind of death he was going to die would be fulfilled.
33 Pilate then went back inside the palace, summoned Jesus and asked him,
" Are you the king
of the Jews ? "
34 "Is that your own idea,"
Jesus asked, " or did others talk to you about me?"
35 "Am I a Jew ? "
Pilate replied.
" It was your people
and your chief preist
who handed you over to me. What is it you have done? "
36 Jesus said,
" My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, the servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews.
But now my own kingdom is from another place."
37 You are a king, then!"
said Pilate.
Jesus answered," You are right in saying I am a king.
In fact, for this reason
I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth.
Everyone on the side of truth listens to me."
38 "What is truth ?" Pilate asked. With this he went out again to the Jews and said, " I find no basis for a charge against him.
39 "But it is your custom for me to release one prisoner at the time of Passover.
Do you want me to release the king of Jews?"
40 They shouted back, " No, not him! Give us Barabbas ! Now Barabbas had taken part in a rebellion.
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Cary and I
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nevertheless
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There is no such thing as Good Friday! Christ was crucified on Thursday!
Was Jesus crucified on "Good Friday"? Indeed not. Jesus himself had said, "For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth [i.e., in that part of Hades known as "Abraham's bosom"]" (Mat:12:40; Lk 16:22). The gospel includes the declaration that Christ "rose again the third day" (1 Cor:15:4).
Obviously, had Christ been crucified on Friday, He couldn't possibly have spent three days and three nights in the grave by Sunday morning. We are distinctly told that the angel rolled away the stone "as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week" (Mat:28:1). The tomb was already empty at that point, so Christ must have risen from the dead sometime prior to dawn.
Yet the myth of a "Good Friday" crucifixion persists, with much ritual and dogma built upon that obvious mistake. In this fact alone we have sufficient evidence of Rome's manufacture and endorsement of untruth to cast doubt upon everything else it affirms with equal dogmatism. And what can be said for the Protestants who, by the millions, so willingly go along with this error?
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday-does it really matter? Yes! The day of our Lord's crucifixion is of the utmost importance. If Christ was not three days and three nights in the grave, then He lied. Moreover, His death, to fulfill prophecy, had to occur at the very time the passover lambs were being slain throughout Israel. It is an astronomical fact that Nisan 14, A.D. 32, fell on Thursday.
"And it was the preparation of the passover....The Jews therefore...that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day...besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away" (Jn:19:14,31). Wait! Not a bone of the passover lamb (Ex 12:46) or of the Messiah (Ps:34:20) could be broken. Not knowing why he did it, "one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side" (Jn:19:34), fulfilling yet another scripture: "they shall look upon me whom they pierced" (Zec:12:10).
John explains that the "sabbath" which began at sunset the Thursday Christ was crucified "was an high day." It was, in fact, the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, of which the first and last days were special sabbaths during which no work was to be done. That "high" sabbath ended Friday at sunset and was immediately followed by the weekly sabbath which ended at sunset on Saturday. Thus two sabbaths followed Christ's death, preventing the women from coming to the grave until the third day, Sunday morning.
I would like to add a comment that was made when this post was originally made:
Julie Page
Jesus was crucified on the 14th of Nisan and was resurrected on the 17th of Nisan. When you look at a Hebrew calendar you will see that for the 17th to fall on a Sunday then the 14th would have fallen on a Thursday. We know the Feast of First Fruits is on the 17th of Nisan. We know that Jesus arose on the first day of the week which means that Sunday had to be Nisan 17.
Not only is Jesus resurrected on the 17th of Nisan (Feast of First Fruits) but there are other things that in the Scriptures that occurred on Nisan 17.
I would like to share them with you......
The Seventeenth of Nisan -- Resurrection and Salvation
The theme of the festival of First Fruits is resurrection and salvation. There are several important events that happened on this day in the Bible.
1.Noah's (Noach) ark rests on Mount Ararat (Genesis 8:4).
2.Israel crosses the Red Sea (Exodus [Shemot] 3:18; 5:3, 14).
3.Israel eats the first fruits of the Promised Land (Joshua 5:10-12). The manna that G-d gave from Heaven during the days in the wilderness ceased the sixteenth day of Nisan after the people ate of the old corn of the land. The day following was the seventeenth of Nisan, the day when the children of Israel ate the first fruits of the Promised Land.
4.Haman is defeated (Esther 3:1-6). In the Book of Esther, Haman plotted to kill all the Jews in Persia and Media. Haman had ten sons (Esther 9:12). By this, we can see that Haman is a type of the false Messiah (antichrist). A decree was sent out on the thirteenth of Nisan that all the Jews would be killed (Esther 3:12). Upon hearing this news, Esther proclaims a three-day fast, which would be Nisan 14-16 (Esther 4:16). On the sixteenth of Nisan, Esther risked her life when she came to King Ahasuerus. The king asked her, in effect, "Tell me, what do you want?" Esther said, "If it please the king, may the king and Haman come this day to the banquet that I have prepared for him" (Esther 5:4 NAS). This was the sixteenth day of Nisan. At the banquet, the king again asked Esther what she wanted, and she asked the king to come to another banquet to be held the next day, the seventeenth of Nisan. On this day, Haman (a type of the false Messiah or antichrist, as well as of satan [Ha satan]) is hanged.
5.The resurrection of Yeshua, the Messiah (John 12:24; 1 Corinthians 15:16-20). Yeshua celebrated the festival of First Fruits by offering Himself as the first fruits to all future generations (Matthew [Mattityahu] 27:52-53).
You've made a mistake in your calculations.
1) "Three days and three nights" was a Jewish idiomatic saying that was not referring to a literal 72-hour period. Though He was not in the grave for a literal 72-hour period, He did not lie.