Here and Now with Francis 3/24/16 (Christ, mercy, Maundy Thursday, Eucharist, Good Friday, crucifixion, Black Saturday, silence, Mary, Easter, resurrection, faith)

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The Easter Triduum is the memorial of a drama of love that gives us the certainty that we will never be abandoned in life’s trials.

From the general audience
Our reflection on God’s mercy introduces us today to the Easter Triduum. We will live Holy Thursday, Friday and Saturday as intense moments, which enable us to enter increasingly in the great mystery of our faith: the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. Everything in these three days speaks of mercy, because it renders visible the point that God’s love can reach. [...] On Holy Thursday Jesus institutes the Eucharist, anticipating in the paschal banquet His sacrifice on Golgotha. [...] Holy Friday is the culminating moment of love. ...A love that intends to embrace all, no one excluded. [...] And, finally, Holy Saturday is the day of God’s silence. It must be a day of silence. We must do everything possible so that it is a day of silence, as that Day, which was the day of God’s silence. Jesus placed in the sepulcher shares with the whole of humanity the tragedy of death. ... We think of Holy Saturday: it will do us good to think of the silence of Our Lady, “the Believer,” who in silence awaited the Resurrection. [...] This is our Jesus, who says to each one of us: “If I could suffer more for you, I would do so.” [full text]

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