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Prayer of the heart. Good Friday
Saint Eustatius of Luxeiulle. Is it You,

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Lord who has suffered death for me
to live? How can I rejoice

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in my freedom if I owe it
to your bonds? Is it You,

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Lord who has suffered death for me
to live? How can I rejoice in

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my salvation if he has acquired it
for your suffering? Is it You,

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Lord who has suffered death for me
to live? Lord You, you have

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suffered because you have loved for love
and mercy. Is it You, Lord

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who has suffered death for me to
live? The Gospel today is the passion

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of Lord I believe, an extract, concretely from the Gospel of St John,

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passion Lord Jesus Christ. According to
St John, at that time Jesus

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went out with his disciples on the
other side of the cedron stream, where

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I saw a garden and he and
his disciples Judas entered there. The traitor

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also knew the place, because Jesus
often met his Jewish disciples there. Then,

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taking your guard and some smoke guards, priests and Pharisees, he entered

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there with lanterns, torches and weapons. Jesus, knowing all that was coming

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upon him, went forward and told
him who you are looking for. They

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answered Jesus the Nazarene and Jesus told
them I am. They were also with

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him, Judah, also with them
Judah. The traitor, when I told

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him I was, retreated and fell
to the ground and asked them again who

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you are looking for? And they
told Jesus of Nazareth, Jesus answered you.

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I said I am. If you
look for me, let these go.

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And so he fulfilled what he had
said. I haven' t lost

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any of the ones you gave me. And Jesus answered him. My kingdom

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is not of this world. If
my kingdom were of this world, my

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guard would have fought that it would
not fall into the hands of the Jews.

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But my kingdom is not from here. Pirato told him that you'

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re king. Jesus said to him," You say so I am king

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" Me. For this I have
been born, and for this I have

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come into the world to bear witness
to the truth, because everyone who is

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of the truth hears my voice.
And Pilate told him and what the truth

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is. Then he gave it to
him for crucification. They took Jesus and

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carrying the cross, went out to
the place called La de la caravera which

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in Hebrew is called golgotha where they
crucified with him two others, one,

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one pierced and in the middle of
p and a half. Jesus pyrato wrote

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a sign and put it on top
of the head of the cross. In

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it was written Jesus the Nazarene,
the king of the Jews. Many Jews

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read the sign because it was near
the place where Jesus was crucified and it

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was written in Latin and Greek Hebrew. When Jesus took viragre, he said

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it is fulfilled and inquitting his head, he handed over the spirit to the

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Jews. Then, as it was
the day of the preparation parasceve that the

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bodies should not remain on the cross
of the Sabbath, for that Sabbath was

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a solemn day, they asked Pilate
to break their legs and to remove them.

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The soldiers left and broke the legs
of the first and then of the

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other who had crucified with him,
but when they came to Jesus, seeing

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that he had already died, they
did not break his legs, but one

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of the soldiers with the spear,
passed over the side and blood and water

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came to the point. And after
this, Joseph of Arimathea, who was

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a clandestine disciple of Jesus, for
fear of the Jews, asked Pilate to

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let him take Jesus' neck,
and Pilate authorized it. It was him

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then and he took the body.
Godemo also came, who had come to

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see him at night and brought about
a hundred pounds of Mirra and Heroiaoe’

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s visture, and they took Jesus’ body and bandaged it all with only

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more as it was customary to close
the Jews. There was a garden in

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the place where the cross and caron
and in the garden a new tomb where

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no one has been. It had
been buried in land yet and as for

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the Jews it was the day of
preparation, the sepulchre was near. They

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put Jesus there. I recommend that
you personally read the whole test. I

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' ve read only one piece.
We have just heard the story of the

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passion of crilde, sir, and
we have let the heart expand, that

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it joins the Lord, because we
want to share in his pain to understand

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thus the love that has us.
We don' t understand all his love,

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but that' s why we don' t understand all his pain.

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You tell John of avila. The
whole life of the Lord was directed to

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this supreme moment. I had longed
for years for the distant one who was

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going to redeem us. Only he
had been able to appreciate the great misfortune

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that it was for man to be
an enemy of God. The Cross that

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until the end, until that moment, had been a suffame and dishonorable instrument,

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became as the liturgy sings in light, the tree where life begins.

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The intensity of Christ' s pain
is enormous and leads him to cry out.

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Oh, my God. My God, why have you forsaken me with

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these initial words. Safe twenty-
two. The Lord is revealing the deepest

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sense of the mystery of the incarnation
Jesus on the Cross. That is at

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once God who listens and man who
pleads as God is happy and as a

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man coxist unhappiness and pain. Happiness
because everything is being fulfilled according to the

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channels of God' s love,
physical pain, the most intense, what

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can be suffered, because his sensitivity
was the most delicate he has ever attended.

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And moral pains because with his botanical
vision he watches, on the one

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hand, the infinite merciful holiness of
God and, on the other, the

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sins of all men of all times, including ours. Therefore, he thought

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of each one of us and,
in every way, poured out his sacrifices

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and those words of the twenty-
second century. Oh, my God,

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my God, why you' ve
abandoned me. They are of pain,

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but not of despair or rebellion,
but of hope. They are the answer

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of man God to those who edited
him without understanding how he had saved others.

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Don' t save yourself. Jesus
did not want to save himself willingly

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gave himself on the cross to death
to save them. The Lord within Jesus

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terrible that suffered you aunt his soul
full of intense joy. With those suffering

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arms drilled on the cross, he
was receiving the man, saving the mincer

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man a well- known book about
pressing sir concreted the palm pad he said

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he saw and that filled him with
joy. She ate to be loved and

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heard the cross because he was going
to die on it. He saw the

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martyrs who, by their love and
by defending the truth, would suffer a

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more similar martyrdom. He saw the
love of his friends, He saw the

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tears before the Cross. He saw
the triumph and victory that Christians would achieve

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with the weapon of the Cross.
He saw the great miracles that with the

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sign of the Cross were to be
done throughout the world. He saw so

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many men who with their lives were
going to be holy because they knew how

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to love to die with him and
they mentioned sin. The fruits of the

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cross did not wait for one of
the thieves. Recognizing their sins, Jesus

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is asked, Lord remember me when
you are in your kingdom. He is

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the first repentant man of sin.
He doesn' t want me to free

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him from the cross. He wants
to spy on his fault due to his

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fault, to bad cross, to
bad pain very close to that of Jesus

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is to his mother. Like other
holy women. Also there was John,

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the youngest of the tenpostles Jesus,
seeing his mother and the disciple whom he

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loved who was there, told his
mother Etrs wife to your son and then

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said the disciple and there to your
mother. And from that moment the disciple

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received her into his house. Yesterday
Thursday, Santo, at the last dinner,

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the Lord Teaches has given us himself. He now gives us what he

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wants most on earth, because he
also loves us very much, his mother,

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the Blessed Virgin. Not only will
he not give you protection or affection,

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but his attitude to his son'
s cross will give us confidence so

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that we too will come near without
fear of the cross and there we will

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really find Christ. We can identify
with him and be other Christs, Christ

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himself prays with all your heart these
stanzas of the painful stabat mater that sweet

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source of love. Make me feel
your pain. Make him cry with you.

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They have made me weep with you
and hurt me of your beings,

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their sorrows while I live, because
I want to accompany you on the cross

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where your compassionate heart sees it.
Make me fall in love with his cross

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and let her live and dwell.
You gave the blessing God, merciful father,

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who left us the end of his
love in the passion of his son

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in unbegotten. Grant you the admirable
doubt of his blessing for the service of

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God and men, for you believe
that by temporary death he told him to

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be delivered from eternal death. Give
you the reward of the sweet future life

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and follow his examples of humility.
You perish from his resurrection and the blessing

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of God, every mighty father,
son, and holy spirit, saying to

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his work to you, if you
accompany yourself, always amen