Cycle C -- Good Friday -- 15 April 2022

Good Friday – 15 April 2022

Good Friday

Beyond reality

Beyond the pain

Nothing matters; fulfilling the mission

“This is why I am here.”

Focus – the journey nears its end.

Why do they scourge me?

Romans – Jews – doesn’t make sense

Who are they?  Doing a job

Why do they crown me?  Doing a job

Forgive them; forgive them; forgive them.

Where are they?  My family, my friends

Last night – I gave them me

Now, where are they?  I need them!

Did they leave me?

So alone!  Why?

Carrying the cross – heavy – help

Hold the end – thank you

Wipe my face – yes.  Thank you.

Grateful – can’t think.

Falling, falling, falling.

Nails, nails, nails –

Support my arms!

Trouble breathing

Ease my pain

Fog my thoughts!

Stripped naked

All of me – hanging from a tree

Nothing hidden – nothing ever hidden

No shame

I am me; stripped as me.

Thirst – terrible thirst

Sweat – blood – no, not gall!

Oh – worse – why – doing a job

They don’t know what they are doing.

Forgive them; forgive them; forgive them.

Crowds mocking me.  Friends too.

Scorning me.

Saying terrible things

They don’t know what they are doing.

Forgive them; forgive them; forgive them.

Two men here

Talking

One understands – he’ll be with me

The other doesn’t know.

Forgive him; forgive him; forgive him.

Family and friends

I see some now.

My mother – my beloved

Others too

Hold each other!  Love each other!  Love each other!

Am I forsaken?

Am I delirious?

Take my spirit!

Forgive them!

It is finished!

Original © 2003 – Roberta M Meehan

Updated © 2022 – Roberta M Meehan