Greek Orthodox Good Friday (Great and Holy Friday) is the most solemn day of the year, commemorating the Passion, Crucifixion, and burial of Jesus Christ.

Good Friday is the sorrowful day of the commemoration of the Passion and Death of Our Lord. Mass is not celebrated, but in the afternoon (usually about 3 PM, the time of the Lord's death) there takes place the solemn Passion Liturgy.

The organ and bells are not used, the procession proceeds to the stripped altar in silence and the priest prostrates himself on the floor in a meaningful gesture of grief and contrition. The Passion narrative from the Gospel is chanted, and then the Crucifix is exposed as the priests sings three times: 'ecce Lingum Crucis in quo salus mundi pependit'- 'behold the Wood of the Cross in which hung the Salvation of the world'. The priest, having taken off his shoes, genuflects three times and adores the Crucifix with a kiss. Then the people follow his example.

After that the Blessed Sacrament is taken from the Repository and the congregation receives the Eucharist (this ancient rite is called the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts), partaking of the Body of the Lord which had been sacrificed for them on that first Good Friday.

After Communion, the Blessed Sacrament is removed from the church, which represents Christ's death. The people then pray in front of the Lord's Tomb, meditating on His sorrowful Passion and Death.

Good Friday is the sorrowful day of the commemoration of the Passion and Death of Our Lord. Mass is not celebrated, but in the afternoon (usually about 3 PM, the time of the Lord's death) there takes place the solemn Passion Liturgy.

The organ and bells are not used, the procession proceeds to the stripped altar in silence and the priest prostrates himself on the floor in a meaningful gesture of grief and contrition. The Passion narrative from the Gospel is chanted, and then the Crucifix is exposed as the priests sings three times: 'ecce Lingum Crucis in quo salus mundi pependit'- 'behold the Wood of the Cross in which hung the Salvation of the world'. The priest, having taken off his shoes, genuflects three times and adores the Crucifix with a kiss. Then the people follow his example.

After that the Blessed Sacrament is taken from the Repository and the congregation receives the Eucharist (this ancient rite is called the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts), partaking of the Body of the Lord which had been sacrificed for them on that first Good Friday.

After Communion, the Blessed Sacrament is removed from the church, which represents Christ's death. The people then pray in front of the Lord's Tomb, meditating on His sorrowful Passion and Death.

Good Friday is the sorrowful day of the commemoration of the Passion and Death of Our Lord. Mass is not celebrated, but in the afternoon (usually about 3 PM, the time of the Lord's death) there takes place the solemn Passion Liturgy.

The organ and bells are not used, the procession proceeds to the stripped altar in silence and the priest prostrates himself on the floor in a meaningful gesture of grief and contrition. The Passion narrative from the Gospel is chanted, and then the Crucifix is exposed as the priests sings three times: 'ecce Lingum Crucis in quo salus mundi pependit'- 'behold the Wood of the Cross in which hung the Salvation of the world'. The priest, having taken off his shoes, genuflects three times and adores the Crucifix with a kiss. Then the people follow his example.

After that the Blessed Sacrament is taken from the Repository and the congregation receives the Eucharist (this ancient rite is called the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts), partaking of the Body of the Lord which had been sacrificed for them on that first Good Friday.

After Communion, the Blessed Sacrament is removed from the church, which represents Christ's death. The people then pray in front of the Lord's Tomb, meditating on His sorrowful Passion and Death.

Good Friday, 2009

Whatever your religion, belief-system, or philosophical base, I do wish you all Peace this holiday season, and a future filled with joy and abundance.....

Good Friday is the sorrowful day of the commemoration of the Passion and Death of Our Lord. Mass is not celebrated, but in the afternoon (usually about 3 PM, the time of the Lord's death) there takes place the solemn Passion Liturgy.

The organ and bells are not used, the procession proceeds to the stripped altar in silence and the priest prostrates himself on the floor in a meaningful gesture of grief and contrition. The Passion narrative from the Gospel is chanted, and then the Crucifix is exposed as the priests sings three times: 'ecce Lingum Crucis in quo salus mundi pependit'- 'behold the Wood of the Cross in which hung the Salvation of the world'. The priest, having taken off his shoes, genuflects three times and adores the Crucifix with a kiss. Then the people follow his example.

After that the Blessed Sacrament is taken from the Repository and the congregation receives the Eucharist (this ancient rite is called the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts), partaking of the Body of the Lord which had been sacrificed for them on that first Good Friday.

After Communion, the Blessed Sacrament is removed from the church, which represents Christ's death. The people then pray in front of the Lord's Tomb, meditating on His sorrowful Passion and Death.

Good Friday is the sorrowful day of the commemoration of the Passion and Death of Our Lord. Mass is not celebrated, but in the afternoon (usually about 3 PM, the time of the Lord's death) there takes place the solemn Passion Liturgy.

The organ and bells are not used, the procession proceeds to the stripped altar in silence and the priest prostrates himself on the floor in a meaningful gesture of grief and contrition. The Passion narrative from the Gospel is chanted, and then the Crucifix is exposed as the priests sings three times: 'ecce Lingum Crucis in quo salus mundi pependit'- 'behold the Wood of the Cross in which hung the Salvation of the world'. The priest, having taken off his shoes, genuflects three times and adores the Crucifix with a kiss. Then the people follow his example.

After that the Blessed Sacrament is taken from the Repository and the congregation receives the Eucharist (this ancient rite is called the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts), partaking of the Body of the Lord which had been sacrificed for them on that first Good Friday.

After Communion, the Blessed Sacrament is removed from the church, which represents Christ's death. The people then pray in front of the Lord's Tomb, meditating on His sorrowful Passion and Death.

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Good Friday is the sorrowful day of the commemoration of the Passion and Death of Our Lord. Mass is not celebrated, but in the afternoon (usually about 3 PM, the time of the Lord's death) there takes place the solemn Passion Liturgy.

The organ and bells are not used, the procession proceeds to the stripped altar in silence and the priest prostrates himself on the floor in a meaningful gesture of grief and contrition. The Passion narrative from the Gospel is chanted, and then the Crucifix is exposed as the priests sings three times: 'ecce Lingum Crucis in quo salus mundi pependit'- 'behold the Wood of the Cross in which hung the Salvation of the world'. The priest, having taken off his shoes, genuflects three times and adores the Crucifix with a kiss. Then the people follow his example.

After that the Blessed Sacrament is taken from the Repository and the congregation receives the Eucharist (this ancient rite is called the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts), partaking of the Body of the Lord which had been sacrificed for them on that first Good Friday.

After Communion, the Blessed Sacrament is removed from the church, which represents Christ's death. The people then pray in front of the Lord's Tomb, meditating on His sorrowful Passion and Death.

Good Friday is the sorrowful day of the commemoration of the Passion and Death of Our Lord. Mass is not celebrated, but in the afternoon (usually about 3 PM, the time of the Lord's death) there takes place the solemn Passion Liturgy.

The organ and bells are not used, the procession proceeds to the stripped altar in silence and the priest prostrates himself on the floor in a meaningful gesture of grief and contrition. The Passion narrative from the Gospel is chanted, and then the Crucifix is exposed as the priests sings three times: 'ecce Lingum Crucis in quo salus mundi pependit'- 'behold the Wood of the Cross in which hung the Salvation of the world'. The priest, having taken off his shoes, genuflects three times and adores the Crucifix with a kiss. Then the people follow his example.

After that the Blessed Sacrament is taken from the Repository and the congregation receives the Eucharist (this ancient rite is called the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts), partaking of the Body of the Lord which had been sacrificed for them on that first Good Friday.

After Communion, the Blessed Sacrament is removed from the church, which represents Christ's death. The people then pray in front of the Lord's Tomb, meditating on His sorrowful Passion and Death.

Good Friday is the sorrowful day of the commemoration of the Passion and Death of Our Lord. Mass is not celebrated, but in the afternoon (usually about 3 PM, the time of the Lord's death) there takes place the solemn Passion Liturgy.

The organ and bells are not used, the procession proceeds to the stripped altar in silence and the priest prostrates himself on the floor in a meaningful gesture of grief and contrition. The Passion narrative from the Gospel is chanted, and then the Crucifix is exposed as the priests sings three times: 'ecce Lingum Crucis in quo salus mundi pependit'- 'behold the Wood of the Cross in which hung the Salvation of the world'. The priest, having taken off his shoes, genuflects three times and adores the Crucifix with a kiss. Then the people follow his example.

After that the Blessed Sacrament is taken from the Repository and the congregation receives the Eucharist (this ancient rite is called the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts), partaking of the Body of the Lord which had been sacrificed for them on that first Good Friday.

After Communion, the Blessed Sacrament is removed from the church, which represents Christ's death. The people then pray in front of the Lord's Tomb, meditating on His sorrowful Passion and Death.

Good Friday is the sorrowful day of the commemoration of the Passion and Death of Our Lord. Mass is not celebrated, but in the afternoon (usually about 3 PM, the time of the Lord's death) there takes place the solemn Passion Liturgy.

The organ and bells are not used, the procession proceeds to the stripped altar in silence and the priest prostrates himself on the floor in a meaningful gesture of grief and contrition. The Passion narrative from the Gospel is chanted, and then the Crucifix is exposed as the priests sings three times: 'ecce Lingum Crucis in quo salus mundi pependit'- 'behold the Wood of the Cross in which hung the Salvation of the world'. The priest, having taken off his shoes, genuflects three times and adores the Crucifix with a kiss. Then the people follow his example.

After that the Blessed Sacrament is taken from the Repository and the congregation receives the Eucharist (this ancient rite is called the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts), partaking of the Body of the Lord which had been sacrificed for them on that first Good Friday.

After Communion, the Blessed Sacrament is removed from the church, which represents Christ's death. The people then pray in front of the Lord's Tomb, meditating on His sorrowful Passion and Death.

Good Friday is the sorrowful day of the commemoration of the Passion and Death of Our Lord. Mass is not celebrated, but in the afternoon (usually about 3 PM, the time of the Lord's death) there takes place the solemn Passion Liturgy.

The organ and bells are not used, the procession proceeds to the stripped altar in silence and the priest prostrates himself on the floor in a meaningful gesture of grief and contrition. The Passion narrative from the Gospel is chanted, and then the Crucifix is exposed as the priests sings three times: 'ecce Lingum Crucis in quo salus mundi pependit'- 'behold the Wood of the Cross in which hung the Salvation of the world'. The priest, having taken off his shoes, genuflects three times and adores the Crucifix with a kiss. Then the people follow his example.

After that the Blessed Sacrament is taken from the Repository and the congregation receives the Eucharist (this ancient rite is called the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts), partaking of the Body of the Lord which had been sacrificed for them on that first Good Friday.

After Communion, the Blessed Sacrament is removed from the church, which represents Christ's death. The people then pray in front of the Lord's Tomb, meditating on His sorrowful Passion and Death.

Alan Lewis says of the Christian story: "Ironically, the center of the drama itself is an empty space. All the action and emotion, it seems, belong to two days only: despair and joy, dark and light, defeat and victory, the end and the beginning, evenly distributed in vivid contrast between what humanity did to Jesus on the first day and what God did for him on the third... [Yet] between the crucifying and the raising there is interposed a brief, inert void: a nonevent surely—only a time of waiting in which nothing of significance occurs and of which there is little to be said. It is rare to hear a sermon about Easter Saturday; for much of Christian history the day has found no place in liturgy and worship it could call its own."

Professor and psychologist James Loder tells of the case of Willa, a young adult who was hospitalized and classified as schizophrenic of an undifferentiated type. She was born into a home where she was unwanted and abused. She was a bright child, but everyone took advantage of her such that she grew up with no sense of boundary or healthy relationships. Tragically, the very individuals who pledged to help her also became stories of abuse in her life. She was in the second year of graduate school when she finally broke down and could not finish her examinations.

In the hospital, she sat for hours rocking her doll and staring into space. The head nurse on the floor told Dr. Loder that they expected Willa would never leave the hospital. One day, however, while she was sitting in her chair, someone came up behind her, put arms around her and said, "The silence is not empty; there is purpose for your life." She turned around, but there was no one there. The power of that experience began to build sanity, and to distinguish illusion from reality. While no one thought she would ever leave the hospital, she was released after three weeks. She was eventually baptized and returned to the profession for which she was training. Commenting on this encounter with God in the silence when all else seems lost, Loder writes: "The intimacy of the Spirit runs deeper than family violence and neglect, and has immense restorative power."(3) Indeed, the intimacy of God runs deeper than silence.

extracted from..Jill Carattini [Slice 2442] The Silence Is Not Empty (April 18, 2011)

Good Friday is the sorrowful day of the commemoration of the Passion and Death of Our Lord. Mass is not celebrated, but in the afternoon (usually about 3 PM, the time of the Lord's death) there takes place the solemn Passion Liturgy.

The organ and bells are not used, the procession proceeds to the stripped altar in silence and the priest prostrates himself on the floor in a meaningful gesture of grief and contrition. The Passion narrative from the Gospel is chanted, and then the Crucifix is exposed as the priests sings three times: 'ecce Lingum Crucis in quo salus mundi pependit'- 'behold the Wood of the Cross in which hung the Salvation of the world'. The priest, having taken off his shoes, genuflects three times and adores the Crucifix with a kiss. Then the people follow his example.

After that the Blessed Sacrament is taken from the Repository and the congregation receives the Eucharist (this ancient rite is called the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts), partaking of the Body of the Lord which had been sacrificed for them on that first Good Friday.

After Communion, the Blessed Sacrament is removed from the church, which represents Christ's death. The people then pray in front of the Lord's Tomb, meditating on His sorrowful Passion and Death.

The Church of St Francis of Assisi Good Friday Procession through the streets of Little Italy.

Toronto March 25, 2016

www.stfrancistoronto.org/sfoa_2/?lang=en

Only the street shots - thestreetzine.blogspot.com/

Good Friday is the sorrowful day of the commemoration of the Passion and Death of Our Lord. Mass is not celebrated, but in the afternoon (usually about 3 PM, the time of the Lord's death) there takes place the solemn Passion Liturgy.

The organ and bells are not used, the procession proceeds to the stripped altar in silence and the priest prostrates himself on the floor in a meaningful gesture of grief and contrition. The Passion narrative from the Gospel is chanted, and then the Crucifix is exposed as the priests sings three times: 'ecce Lingum Crucis in quo salus mundi pependit'- 'behold the Wood of the Cross in which hung the Salvation of the world'. The priest, having taken off his shoes, genuflects three times and adores the Crucifix with a kiss. Then the people follow his example.

After that the Blessed Sacrament is taken from the Repository and the congregation receives the Eucharist (this ancient rite is called the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts), partaking of the Body of the Lord which had been sacrificed for them on that first Good Friday.

After Communion, the Blessed Sacrament is removed from the church, which represents Christ's death. The people then pray in front of the Lord's Tomb, meditating on His sorrowful Passion and Death.

Good Friday is the sorrowful day of the commemoration of the Passion and Death of Our Lord. Mass is not celebrated, but in the afternoon (usually about 3 PM, the time of the Lord's death) there takes place the solemn Passion Liturgy.

The organ and bells are not used, the procession proceeds to the stripped altar in silence and the priest prostrates himself on the floor in a meaningful gesture of grief and contrition. The Passion narrative from the Gospel is chanted, and then the Crucifix is exposed as the priests sings three times: 'ecce Lingum Crucis in quo salus mundi pependit'- 'behold the Wood of the Cross in which hung the Salvation of the world'. The priest, having taken off his shoes, genuflects three times and adores the Crucifix with a kiss. Then the people follow his example.

After that the Blessed Sacrament is taken from the Repository and the congregation receives the Eucharist (this ancient rite is called the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts), partaking of the Body of the Lord which had been sacrificed for them on that first Good Friday.

After Communion, the Blessed Sacrament is removed from the church, which represents Christ's death. The people then pray in front of the Lord's Tomb, meditating on His sorrowful Passion and Death.

Good Friday is the sorrowful day of the commemoration of the Passion and Death of Our Lord. Mass is not celebrated, but in the afternoon (usually about 3 PM, the time of the Lord's death) there takes place the solemn Passion Liturgy.

The organ and bells are not used, the procession proceeds to the stripped altar in silence and the priest prostrates himself on the floor in a meaningful gesture of grief and contrition. The Passion narrative from the Gospel is chanted, and then the Crucifix is exposed as the priests sings three times: 'ecce Lingum Crucis in quo salus mundi pependit'- 'behold the Wood of the Cross in which hung the Salvation of the world'. The priest, having taken off his shoes, genuflects three times and adores the Crucifix with a kiss. Then the people follow his example.

After that the Blessed Sacrament is taken from the Repository and the congregation receives the Eucharist (this ancient rite is called the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts), partaking of the Body of the Lord which had been sacrificed for them on that first Good Friday.

After Communion, the Blessed Sacrament is removed from the church, which represents Christ's death. The people then pray in front of the Lord's Tomb, meditating on His sorrowful Passion and Death.

Good Friday is the sorrowful day of the commemoration of the Passion and Death of Our Lord. Mass is not celebrated, but in the afternoon (usually about 3 PM, the time of the Lord's death) there takes place the solemn Passion Liturgy.

The organ and bells are not used, the procession proceeds to the stripped altar in silence and the priest prostrates himself on the floor in a meaningful gesture of grief and contrition. The Passion narrative from the Gospel is chanted, and then the Crucifix is exposed as the priests sings three times: 'ecce Lingum Crucis in quo salus mundi pependit'- 'behold the Wood of the Cross in which hung the Salvation of the world'. The priest, having taken off his shoes, genuflects three times and adores the Crucifix with a kiss. Then the people follow his example.

After that the Blessed Sacrament is taken from the Repository and the congregation receives the Eucharist (this ancient rite is called the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts), partaking of the Body of the Lord which had been sacrificed for them on that first Good Friday.

After Communion, the Blessed Sacrament is removed from the church, which represents Christ's death. The people then pray in front of the Lord's Tomb, meditating on His sorrowful Passion and Death.

The Church of St Francis of Assisi Good Friday Procession through the streets of Little Italy.

Toronto March 25, 2016

www.stfrancistoronto.org/sfoa_2/?lang=en

Only the street shots - thestreetzine.blogspot.com/

Good Friday is the sorrowful day of the commemoration of the Passion and Death of Our Lord. Mass is not celebrated, but in the afternoon (usually about 3 PM, the time of the Lord's death) there takes place the solemn Passion Liturgy.

The organ and bells are not used, the procession proceeds to the stripped altar in silence and the priest prostrates himself on the floor in a meaningful gesture of grief and contrition. The Passion narrative from the Gospel is chanted, and then the Crucifix is exposed as the priests sings three times: 'ecce Lingum Crucis in quo salus mundi pependit'- 'behold the Wood of the Cross in which hung the Salvation of the world'. The priest, having taken off his shoes, genuflects three times and adores the Crucifix with a kiss. Then the people follow his example.

After that the Blessed Sacrament is taken from the Repository and the congregation receives the Eucharist (this ancient rite is called the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts), partaking of the Body of the Lord which had been sacrificed for them on that first Good Friday.

After Communion, the Blessed Sacrament is removed from the church, which represents Christ's death. The people then pray in front of the Lord's Tomb, meditating on His sorrowful Passion and Death.

Good Friday is the sorrowful day of the commemoration of the Passion and Death of Our Lord. Mass is not celebrated, but in the afternoon (usually about 3 PM, the time of the Lord's death) there takes place the solemn Passion Liturgy.

The organ and bells are not used, the procession proceeds to the stripped altar in silence and the priest prostrates himself on the floor in a meaningful gesture of grief and contrition. The Passion narrative from the Gospel is chanted, and then the Crucifix is exposed as the priests sings three times: 'ecce Lingum Crucis in quo salus mundi pependit'- 'behold the Wood of the Cross in which hung the Salvation of the world'. The priest, having taken off his shoes, genuflects three times and adores the Crucifix with a kiss. Then the people follow his example.

After that the Blessed Sacrament is taken from the Repository and the congregation receives the Eucharist (this ancient rite is called the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts), partaking of the Body of the Lord which had been sacrificed for them on that first Good Friday.

After Communion, the Blessed Sacrament is removed from the church, which represents Christ's death. The people then pray in front of the Lord's Tomb, meditating on His sorrowful Passion and Death.

Good Friday is the sorrowful day of the commemoration of the Passion and Death of Our Lord. Mass is not celebrated, but in the afternoon (usually about 3 PM, the time of the Lord's death) there takes place the solemn Passion Liturgy.

The organ and bells are not used, the procession proceeds to the stripped altar in silence and the priest prostrates himself on the floor in a meaningful gesture of grief and contrition. The Passion narrative from the Gospel is chanted, and then the Crucifix is exposed as the priests sings three times: 'ecce Lingum Crucis in quo salus mundi pependit'- 'behold the Wood of the Cross in which hung the Salvation of the world'. The priest, having taken off his shoes, genuflects three times and adores the Crucifix with a kiss. Then the people follow his example.

After that the Blessed Sacrament is taken from the Repository and the congregation receives the Eucharist (this ancient rite is called the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts), partaking of the Body of the Lord which had been sacrificed for them on that first Good Friday.

After Communion, the Blessed Sacrament is removed from the church, which represents Christ's death. The people then pray in front of the Lord's Tomb, meditating on His sorrowful Passion and Death.

Good Friday is the sorrowful day of the commemoration of the Passion and Death of Our Lord. Mass is not celebrated, but in the afternoon (usually about 3 PM, the time of the Lord's death) there takes place the solemn Passion Liturgy.

The organ and bells are not used, the procession proceeds to the stripped altar in silence and the priest prostrates himself on the floor in a meaningful gesture of grief and contrition. The Passion narrative from the Gospel is chanted, and then the Crucifix is exposed as the priests sings three times: 'ecce Lingum Crucis in quo salus mundi pependit'- 'behold the Wood of the Cross in which hung the Salvation of the world'. The priest, having taken off his shoes, genuflects three times and adores the Crucifix with a kiss. Then the people follow his example.

After that the Blessed Sacrament is taken from the Repository and the congregation receives the Eucharist (this ancient rite is called the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts), partaking of the Body of the Lord which had been sacrificed for them on that first Good Friday.

After Communion, the Blessed Sacrament is removed from the church, which represents Christ's death. The people then pray in front of the Lord's Tomb, meditating on His sorrowful Passion and Death.

Good Friday is the sorrowful day of the commemoration of the Passion and Death of Our Lord. Mass is not celebrated, but in the afternoon (usually about 3 PM, the time of the Lord's death) there takes place the solemn Passion Liturgy.

The organ and bells are not used, the procession proceeds to the stripped altar in silence and the priest prostrates himself on the floor in a meaningful gesture of grief and contrition. The Passion narrative from the Gospel is chanted, and then the Crucifix is exposed as the priests sings three times: 'ecce Lingum Crucis in quo salus mundi pependit'- 'behold the Wood of the Cross in which hung the Salvation of the world'. The priest, having taken off his shoes, genuflects three times and adores the Crucifix with a kiss. Then the people follow his example.

After that the Blessed Sacrament is taken from the Repository and the congregation receives the Eucharist (this ancient rite is called the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts), partaking of the Body of the Lord which had been sacrificed for them on that first Good Friday.

After Communion, the Blessed Sacrament is removed from the church, which represents Christ's death. The people then pray in front of the Lord's Tomb, meditating on His sorrowful Passion and Death.

Good Friday is the sorrowful day of the commemoration of the Passion and Death of Our Lord. Mass is not celebrated, but in the afternoon (usually about 3 PM, the time of the Lord's death) there takes place the solemn Passion Liturgy.

The organ and bells are not used, the procession proceeds to the stripped altar in silence and the priest prostrates himself on the floor in a meaningful gesture of grief and contrition. The Passion narrative from the Gospel is chanted, and then the Crucifix is exposed as the priests sings three times: 'ecce Lingum Crucis in quo salus mundi pependit'- 'behold the Wood of the Cross in which hung the Salvation of the world'. The priest, having taken off his shoes, genuflects three times and adores the Crucifix with a kiss. Then the people follow his example.

After that the Blessed Sacrament is taken from the Repository and the congregation receives the Eucharist (this ancient rite is called the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts), partaking of the Body of the Lord which had been sacrificed for them on that first Good Friday.

After Communion, the Blessed Sacrament is removed from the church, which represents Christ's death. The people then pray in front of the Lord's Tomb, meditating on His sorrowful Passion and Death.

Good Friday is the sorrowful day of the commemoration of the Passion and Death of Our Lord. Mass is not celebrated, but in the afternoon (usually about 3 PM, the time of the Lord's death) there takes place the solemn Passion Liturgy.

The organ and bells are not used, the procession proceeds to the stripped altar in silence and the priest prostrates himself on the floor in a meaningful gesture of grief and contrition. The Passion narrative from the Gospel is chanted, and then the Crucifix is exposed as the priests sings three times: 'ecce Lingum Crucis in quo salus mundi pependit'- 'behold the Wood of the Cross in which hung the Salvation of the world'. The priest, having taken off his shoes, genuflects three times and adores the Crucifix with a kiss. Then the people follow his example.

After that the Blessed Sacrament is taken from the Repository and the congregation receives the Eucharist (this ancient rite is called the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts), partaking of the Body of the Lord which had been sacrificed for them on that first Good Friday.

After Communion, the Blessed Sacrament is removed from the church, which represents Christ's death. The people then pray in front of the Lord's Tomb, meditating on His sorrowful Passion and Death.

Good Friday is the sorrowful day of the commemoration of the Passion and Death of Our Lord. Mass is not celebrated, but in the afternoon (usually about 3 PM, the time of the Lord's death) there takes place the solemn Passion Liturgy.

The organ and bells are not used, the procession proceeds to the stripped altar in silence and the priest prostrates himself on the floor in a meaningful gesture of grief and contrition. The Passion narrative from the Gospel is chanted, and then the Crucifix is exposed as the priests sings three times: 'ecce Lingum Crucis in quo salus mundi pependit'- 'behold the Wood of the Cross in which hung the Salvation of the world'. The priest, having taken off his shoes, genuflects three times and adores the Crucifix with a kiss. Then the people follow his example.

After that the Blessed Sacrament is taken from the Repository and the congregation receives the Eucharist (this ancient rite is called the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts), partaking of the Body of the Lord which had been sacrificed for them on that first Good Friday.

After Communion, the Blessed Sacrament is removed from the church, which represents Christ's death. The people then pray in front of the Lord's Tomb, meditating on His sorrowful Passion and Death.

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Good Friday is the sorrowful day of the commemoration of the Passion and Death of Our Lord. Mass is not celebrated, but in the afternoon (usually about 3 PM, the time of the Lord's death) there takes place the solemn Passion Liturgy.

The organ and bells are not used, the procession proceeds to the stripped altar in silence and the priest prostrates himself on the floor in a meaningful gesture of grief and contrition. The Passion narrative from the Gospel is chanted, and then the Crucifix is exposed as the priests sings three times: 'ecce Lingum Crucis in quo salus mundi pependit'- 'behold the Wood of the Cross in which hung the Salvation of the world'. The priest, having taken off his shoes, genuflects three times and adores the Crucifix with a kiss. Then the people follow his example.

After that the Blessed Sacrament is taken from the Repository and the congregation receives the Eucharist (this ancient rite is called the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts), partaking of the Body of the Lord which had been sacrificed for them on that first Good Friday.

After Communion, the Blessed Sacrament is removed from the church, which represents Christ's death. The people then pray in front of the Lord's Tomb, meditating on His sorrowful Passion and Death.

Good Friday is the sorrowful day of the commemoration of the Passion and Death of Our Lord. Mass is not celebrated, but in the afternoon (usually about 3 PM, the time of the Lord's death) there takes place the solemn Passion Liturgy.

The organ and bells are not used, the procession proceeds to the stripped altar in silence and the priest prostrates himself on the floor in a meaningful gesture of grief and contrition. The Passion narrative from the Gospel is chanted, and then the Crucifix is exposed as the priests sings three times: 'ecce Lingum Crucis in quo salus mundi pependit'- 'behold the Wood of the Cross in which hung the Salvation of the world'. The priest, having taken off his shoes, genuflects three times and adores the Crucifix with a kiss. Then the people follow his example.

After that the Blessed Sacrament is taken from the Repository and the congregation receives the Eucharist (this ancient rite is called the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts), partaking of the Body of the Lord which had been sacrificed for them on that first Good Friday.

After Communion, the Blessed Sacrament is removed from the church, which represents Christ's death. The people then pray in front of the Lord's Tomb, meditating on His sorrowful Passion and Death.

Good Friday is the sorrowful day of the commemoration of the Passion and Death of Our Lord. Mass is not celebrated, but in the afternoon (usually about 3 PM, the time of the Lord's death) there takes place the solemn Passion Liturgy.

The organ and bells are not used, the procession proceeds to the stripped altar in silence and the priest prostrates himself on the floor in a meaningful gesture of grief and contrition. The Passion narrative from the Gospel is chanted, and then the Crucifix is exposed as the priests sings three times: 'ecce Lingum Crucis in quo salus mundi pependit'- 'behold the Wood of the Cross in which hung the Salvation of the world'. The priest, having taken off his shoes, genuflects three times and adores the Crucifix with a kiss. Then the people follow his example.

After that the Blessed Sacrament is taken from the Repository and the congregation receives the Eucharist (this ancient rite is called the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts), partaking of the Body of the Lord which had been sacrificed for them on that first Good Friday.

After Communion, the Blessed Sacrament is removed from the church, which represents Christ's death. The people then pray in front of the Lord's Tomb, meditating on His sorrowful Passion and Death.

Good Friday: The Mass

Celebrant: Father Martin Then, CDD

Good Friday is the sorrowful day of the commemoration of the Passion and Death of Our Lord. Mass is not celebrated, but in the afternoon (usually about 3 PM, the time of the Lord's death) there takes place the solemn Passion Liturgy.

The organ and bells are not used, the procession proceeds to the stripped altar in silence and the priest prostrates himself on the floor in a meaningful gesture of grief and contrition. The Passion narrative from the Gospel is chanted, and then the Crucifix is exposed as the priests sings three times: 'ecce Lingum Crucis in quo salus mundi pependit'- 'behold the Wood of the Cross in which hung the Salvation of the world'. The priest, having taken off his shoes, genuflects three times and adores the Crucifix with a kiss. Then the people follow his example.

After that the Blessed Sacrament is taken from the Repository and the congregation receives the Eucharist (this ancient rite is called the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts), partaking of the Body of the Lord which had been sacrificed for them on that first Good Friday.

After Communion, the Blessed Sacrament is removed from the church, which represents Christ's death. The people then pray in front of the Lord's Tomb, meditating on His sorrowful Passion and Death.

"Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross."

Philippians 2:5-8

"Christ on this cross"

Good Friday, 1613, Riding Westward by John Donne

Photo of Harborne prayer walk on Good Friday.

Good Friday is the sorrowful day of the commemoration of the Passion and Death of Our Lord. Mass is not celebrated, but in the afternoon (usually about 3 PM, the time of the Lord's death) there takes place the solemn Passion Liturgy.

The organ and bells are not used, the procession proceeds to the stripped altar in silence and the priest prostrates himself on the floor in a meaningful gesture of grief and contrition. The Passion narrative from the Gospel is chanted, and then the Crucifix is exposed as the priests sings three times: 'ecce Lingum Crucis in quo salus mundi pependit'- 'behold the Wood of the Cross in which hung the Salvation of the world'. The priest, having taken off his shoes, genuflects three times and adores the Crucifix with a kiss. Then the people follow his example.

After that the Blessed Sacrament is taken from the Repository and the congregation receives the Eucharist (this ancient rite is called the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts), partaking of the Body of the Lord which had been sacrificed for them on that first Good Friday.

After Communion, the Blessed Sacrament is removed from the church, which represents Christ's death. The people then pray in front of the Lord's Tomb, meditating on His sorrowful Passion and Death.

Good Friday is the sorrowful day of the commemoration of the Passion and Death of Our Lord. Mass is not celebrated, but in the afternoon (usually about 3 PM, the time of the Lord's death) there takes place the solemn Passion Liturgy.

The organ and bells are not used, the procession proceeds to the stripped altar in silence and the priest prostrates himself on the floor in a meaningful gesture of grief and contrition. The Passion narrative from the Gospel is chanted, and then the Crucifix is exposed as the priests sings three times: 'ecce Lingum Crucis in quo salus mundi pependit'- 'behold the Wood of the Cross in which hung the Salvation of the world'. The priest, having taken off his shoes, genuflects three times and adores the Crucifix with a kiss. Then the people follow his example.

After that the Blessed Sacrament is taken from the Repository and the congregation receives the Eucharist (this ancient rite is called the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts), partaking of the Body of the Lord which had been sacrificed for them on that first Good Friday.

After Communion, the Blessed Sacrament is removed from the church, which represents Christ's death. The people then pray in front of the Lord's Tomb, meditating on His sorrowful Passion and Death.

Good Friday is the sorrowful day of the commemoration of the Passion and Death of Our Lord. Mass is not celebrated, but in the afternoon (usually about 3 PM, the time of the Lord's death) there takes place the solemn Passion Liturgy.

The organ and bells are not used, the procession proceeds to the stripped altar in silence and the priest prostrates himself on the floor in a meaningful gesture of grief and contrition. The Passion narrative from the Gospel is chanted, and then the Crucifix is exposed as the priests sings three times: 'ecce Lingum Crucis in quo salus mundi pependit'- 'behold the Wood of the Cross in which hung the Salvation of the world'. The priest, having taken off his shoes, genuflects three times and adores the Crucifix with a kiss. Then the people follow his example.

After that the Blessed Sacrament is taken from the Repository and the congregation receives the Eucharist (this ancient rite is called the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts), partaking of the Body of the Lord which had been sacrificed for them on that first Good Friday.

After Communion, the Blessed Sacrament is removed from the church, which represents Christ's death. The people then pray in front of the Lord's Tomb, meditating on His sorrowful Passion and Death.

Good Friday is the sorrowful day of the commemoration of the Passion and Death of Our Lord. Mass is not celebrated, but in the afternoon (usually about 3 PM, the time of the Lord's death) there takes place the solemn Passion Liturgy.

The organ and bells are not used, the procession proceeds to the stripped altar in silence and the priest prostrates himself on the floor in a meaningful gesture of grief and contrition. The Passion narrative from the Gospel is chanted, and then the Crucifix is exposed as the priests sings three times: 'ecce Lingum Crucis in quo salus mundi pependit'- 'behold the Wood of the Cross in which hung the Salvation of the world'. The priest, having taken off his shoes, genuflects three times and adores the Crucifix with a kiss. Then the people follow his example.

After that the Blessed Sacrament is taken from the Repository and the congregation receives the Eucharist (this ancient rite is called the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts), partaking of the Body of the Lord which had been sacrificed for them on that first Good Friday.

After Communion, the Blessed Sacrament is removed from the church, which represents Christ's death. The people then pray in front of the Lord's Tomb, meditating on His sorrowful Passion and Death.

Good Friday is the sorrowful day of the commemoration of the Passion and Death of Our Lord. Mass is not celebrated, but in the afternoon (usually about 3 PM, the time of the Lord's death) there takes place the solemn Passion Liturgy.

The organ and bells are not used, the procession proceeds to the stripped altar in silence and the priest prostrates himself on the floor in a meaningful gesture of grief and contrition. The Passion narrative from the Gospel is chanted, and then the Crucifix is exposed as the priests sings three times: 'ecce Lingum Crucis in quo salus mundi pependit'- 'behold the Wood of the Cross in which hung the Salvation of the world'. The priest, having taken off his shoes, genuflects three times and adores the Crucifix with a kiss. Then the people follow his example.

After that the Blessed Sacrament is taken from the Repository and the congregation receives the Eucharist (this ancient rite is called the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts), partaking of the Body of the Lord which had been sacrificed for them on that first Good Friday.

After Communion, the Blessed Sacrament is removed from the church, which represents Christ's death. The people then pray in front of the Lord's Tomb, meditating on His sorrowful Passion and Death.

Good Friday is the sorrowful day of the commemoration of the Passion and Death of Our Lord. Mass is not celebrated, but in the afternoon (usually about 3 PM, the time of the Lord's death) there takes place the solemn Passion Liturgy.

The organ and bells are not used, the procession proceeds to the stripped altar in silence and the priest prostrates himself on the floor in a meaningful gesture of grief and contrition. The Passion narrative from the Gospel is chanted, and then the Crucifix is exposed as the priests sings three times: 'ecce Lingum Crucis in quo salus mundi pependit'- 'behold the Wood of the Cross in which hung the Salvation of the world'. The priest, having taken off his shoes, genuflects three times and adores the Crucifix with a kiss. Then the people follow his example.

After that the Blessed Sacrament is taken from the Repository and the congregation receives the Eucharist (this ancient rite is called the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts), partaking of the Body of the Lord which had been sacrificed for them on that first Good Friday.

After Communion, the Blessed Sacrament is removed from the church, which represents Christ's death. The people then pray in front of the Lord's Tomb, meditating on His sorrowful Passion and Death.

Good Friday is the sorrowful day of the commemoration of the Passion and Death of Our Lord. Mass is not celebrated, but in the afternoon (usually about 3 PM, the time of the Lord's death) there takes place the solemn Passion Liturgy.

The organ and bells are not used, the procession proceeds to the stripped altar in silence and the priest prostrates himself on the floor in a meaningful gesture of grief and contrition. The Passion narrative from the Gospel is chanted, and then the Crucifix is exposed as the priests sings three times: 'ecce Lingum Crucis in quo salus mundi pependit'- 'behold the Wood of the Cross in which hung the Salvation of the world'. The priest, having taken off his shoes, genuflects three times and adores the Crucifix with a kiss. Then the people follow his example.

After that the Blessed Sacrament is taken from the Repository and the congregation receives the Eucharist (this ancient rite is called the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts), partaking of the Body of the Lord which had been sacrificed for them on that first Good Friday.

After Communion, the Blessed Sacrament is removed from the church, which represents Christ's death. The people then pray in front of the Lord's Tomb, meditating on His sorrowful Passion and Death.

Good Friday is the sorrowful day of the commemoration of the Passion and Death of Our Lord. Mass is not celebrated, but in the afternoon (usually about 3 PM, the time of the Lord's death) there takes place the solemn Passion Liturgy.

The organ and bells are not used, the procession proceeds to the stripped altar in silence and the priest prostrates himself on the floor in a meaningful gesture of grief and contrition. The Passion narrative from the Gospel is chanted, and then the Crucifix is exposed as the priests sings three times: 'ecce Lingum Crucis in quo salus mundi pependit'- 'behold the Wood of the Cross in which hung the Salvation of the world'. The priest, having taken off his shoes, genuflects three times and adores the Crucifix with a kiss. Then the people follow his example.

After that the Blessed Sacrament is taken from the Repository and the congregation receives the Eucharist (this ancient rite is called the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts), partaking of the Body of the Lord which had been sacrificed for them on that first Good Friday.

After Communion, the Blessed Sacrament is removed from the church, which represents Christ's death. The people then pray in front of the Lord's Tomb, meditating on His sorrowful Passion and Death.