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Jesus on the cross, Good
Friday, 2006 Guatemala

Tonight we attended Holy Thursday liturgy at a Capuchin parish were the Society of St. Vincent de Paul really got established in Milwaukee. The service started with joy as we remembered Jesus breaking bread and giving out wine at his last dinner, giving us his body and blood, Eucharist, and telling his disciples to do the same in memory of him. The liturgy ends with the Eucharist being removed from the altar and put aside as we remember the agony of the garden, where Jesus realizes he will die for living what he taught, the Way of God.

My friend, Father Charles McCarthy says: “Holy Thursday of Holy Week is a dangerous memory because it is the memory of the institution of the Eucharistic with its two commands: ‘Do this in memory of me,’ and the ‘new commandment’: Love one another as I have loved you.”

In 2006 I was on a pilgrimage to Guatemala where Good Friday, the day remembering the death of Jesus on the cross, is the biggest holy day and holiday of the year. As I described in my pictorial essay Buried in Guatemala Good Friday in Guatemala is a day of celebration, bigger than Christmas or Easter in the USA. The Maya people of Guatemala who suffered so much really identify with Jesus on the cross. There are many processions in a joyful environment on Good Friday. The paradox of the cross is really evident; we celebrate the death of Jesus since we know that only through suffering and death can live with him.

It is the paradox of the seed planted in the spring in the ground. It must die to rise again as a plant and produce fruit. The cross is the ultimate symbol of nonviolence, loving our neighbors and enemies and enduring pain and suffering for them or from them.

After Good Friday the hard work is done. Saturday we just need to wait till Sunday, when the Resurrection of Jesus happens and out of death we can say: “All is Well”.

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