While today’s Good Friday liturgy is meant to “simulate” the absence of the Lord’s presence as a means to commemorate His suffering and death for the salvation of the world, there is a precious opportunity for us now in light of various restrictions stemming from the current world pandemic to have an “extended” Good Friday experience in the sense of really feeling the absence of the Lord’s Eucharistic presence for a prolonged period of time.  As such, perhaps we might see this experience as a chance for us to resolve never to take for granted again God’s many graces and blessings in the context of our ordinary lives, particularly the Lord’s presence in the Eucharistic species.

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