A Homily for Good Friday, by Terrance Klein

“Look at the closet of your soul—how many useless things you have, how many stupid illusions,” the pope said. “Let us return to simplicity, to things that are true, that don’t need to be made-up.”

“Christ, in his abandonment, stirs us to seek him and to love him and those who are themselves abandoned. For in them we see not only people in need, but Jesus himself, abandoned.”

Pope Francis, recovering from bronchitis, delivered a forceful Palm Sunday homily asking us to remember the “many abandoned Christs” in our own time, or those who experience suffering and solitude.

We should focus on what today’s reading outlines as a uniter, that being a sanctuary under God.

A Reflection for the Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Lent, by Ashley McKinless