A Sermon for Good Friday 2026

A Good Friday sermon on Psalm 22

9 Yet it was you who took me from the womb; you kept me safe on my mother’s breast.10 On you I was cast from my birth, and since my mother bore me you have been my God.

Johannes Tauler (1300-1361) on Mary at the foot of Jesus’ cross:

“For if any creature could have brought comfort to our Lord as He hung upon the Cross, none would have been so fitted for this as His most blessed Mother…[But] His Mother’s presence brought no comfort with it, but rather added to His pain, for her pains were thereby joined to His…

“For Thou alone by the lance of Thy compassion, hast searched into the weight and the grievousness of her woes, which to all men are simply beyond all understanding. And this, indeed, so greatly added to the pain of Thy passion, because not only in Thy body, but also in Thy Mother’s Heart Thou wert crucified, for her cross was Thy Cross, and Thine was hers.”

(Meditations on the Life and Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ, chapter 44)

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