Vaynese

@GloryBeeGod4evr Thank you so much ❤️

@Vaynese ❤️ Thank you so much, Vaynese! May God grant you all these graces as well! 🙏

See the Cross as a supporting staff that greatly lightens and eases the journey. - St. John of the Cross

@GloryBeeGod4evr I don't really deserve much credit for being less online though, it's not intentional or voluntarily 😬❤️

@Vaynese That's actually good that you're not spending a lot of your time online. That's something I need to work on. I appreciate your friendship as well!❤️

@VaticanNews Let's not flee the silence or despair at the stone. Instead let's hold vigil with quiet faith, trusting in what He has promised, because no stone can keep Life Himself contained.

@VaticanNews Christ isn't defeated, He's descending into the depths to conquer death itself. So may we remember in our own lives: what appears closed, finished or 'lifeless' may be the very place where grace is preparing something unimaginable. Let's remain with Him in this stillness.

Gospel of the Day (Matthew 27, 60-66) And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed. And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre. Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate, saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, after three days I will rise again. Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first. Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch: go your way, make it as sure as ye can. So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch. vaticannews.va/en/word-of-the…

@JefferyFasching These words say everything. I always become a bit sad when people say the Eucharist is just a symbol...

Take ye, and eat: this is My Body, which shall be delivered for you: this do for the commemoration of Me (1 Cor 11:24).

@GloryBeeGod4evr hope, endless love and complete trust ❤️

@GloryBeeGod4evr God bless you abundantly, may He fill your heart with peace, your soul with His grace and your days with quiet joy... And may your Good Friday be deeply blessed too! May you remain close to Our Lord at the foot of the Cross and find in His sacrifice a renewed sense of infinite

@JefferyFasching Lord Jesus crucified, I ask for Your mercy for my many sins, my weaknesses, my blindness, my fears and my lack of trust. Please look upon me in my poverty, heal me, forgive me and save me. Amen.

Lord Jesus crucified, have mercy on us…

@GloryBeeGod4evr and redemption and in that same way, our crosses too can fill our suffering with meaning and grace. We just have to hold on, keep the faith, believe and endure.

@GloryBeeGod4evr I've always seen this quote as a beautiful (but not always easy) invitation to change how we see suffering. The Cross is very heavy and very painful, but that doesn't mean it's a pointless burden seeking to crush or destroy. It's the very path by which Christ accomplishes love

@VaticanNews denying? Or am I willing to remain, even trembling, at the foot of the Cross? For in the Cross, we do not only see pain... we see the measure of divine love... And in that love, we find our salvation.

@VaticanNews Finally, His side is pierced and blood and water flow forth, the life of the Church, the mercy that washes over the world. From death comes life, from the Cross comes hope... and we're invited to not just observe, but to enter. Where am I in this story? Am I resisting, fleeing,

Gospel of the Day (John 18,1-40.19,1-42) [...] Aware that everything was now finished, in order that the scripture might be fulfilled, Jesus said, "I thirst." There was a vessel filled with common wine. So they put a sponge soaked in wine on a sprig of hyssop and put it up to his mouth. When Jesus had taken the wine, he said, "It is finished." And bowing his head, he handed over the spirit. Now since it was preparation day, in order that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the sabbath, for the sabbath day of that week was a solemn one, the Jews asked Pilate that their legs be broken and they be taken down. So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and then of the other one who was crucified with Jesus. But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs, but one soldier thrust his lance into his side, and immediately blood and water flowed out. An eyewitness has testified, and his testimony is true; he knows that he is speaking the truth, so that you also may (come to) believe. For this happened so that the scripture passage might be fulfilled: "Not a bone of it will be broken." And again another passage says: "They will look upon him whom they have pierced." After this, Joseph of Arimathea, secretly a disciple of Jesus for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate if he could remove the body of Jesus. And Pilate permitted it. So he came and took his body. Nicodemus, the one who had first come to him at night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes weighing about one hundred pounds. They took the body of Jesus and bound it with burial cloths along with the spices, according to the Jewish burial custom. Now in the place where he had been crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had yet been buried. So they laid Jesus there because of the Jewish preparation day; for the tomb was close by. vaticannews.va/en/word-of-the…