SACHEART's GOOD FRIDAY SERVICE COMPLETE ON TO TONIGHT'S "SEVEN LAST WORDS".............

The Good Friday Service of the Passion, Veneration of the Cross, and Holy I joined Monsignor Robert Walton, Father Vincent Juan, Deacons William Riehl, and Gilbert Parra, along with Dr. Donald Kendrick, and Scola Cantorum, as well as the parishioners of Sacred Heart Parish in celebrating is over, an approximately 80 minute commemoration on this Good Friday afternoon.  At the Service at the gracious invitation of Msgr. Walton, aI preached a brief homily on the Scriptures from Isaiah, Hebrews, and John's Passion account.  In the homily I attempted to underscore that despite the starkness and sorrowful reality of this day in the history of Humankind, in the Suffering, Passion, and Death, of Jesus The Christ came the necessary fulfillment of the Prophets and the Salvation and Sanctification of God's People.  Also, how Pope Francis' call to us to live in humble service was echoed in the Good Friday Service he presided at in Vatican City, by the Papal Homilist, who reminded us of our mutual need to come out from under our own crosses, to reach out and serve the poor, the sick, the marginalized, and the needy.  Finally I concluded we need not be crushed by our personal crosses, but vindicated by them in being joined to the vanquishing of sin and death the New and Risen Life of Christ Jesus Our Lord and Redeemer by his selfllessand obedient Passion and Death, has gained for us  Tonight, at 7 p.m., I will return to SacHeart for "Seven Last Words Of Christ  ", Meditation being presented by members of the Parish Pastoral Council, thanks to the generous service and assistance of Tom Flynn, Rita Spillane's husband.............tdp