Good Friday, April 3, 2026: Father Richard offers a guided meditation, inviting listeners to be present with Jesus at the crucifixion: Meditation: Picture yourself before the crucified Jesus; recognize that he became what you fear: nakedness, exposure, vulnerability, and failure. He became sin to free you from sin: " He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. "(2 Corinthians 5:21). He became what we do to one another in order to free us from the lie of punishing and scapegoating each other. He became the crucified so we would stop crucifying. He refused to transmit his pain onto others. Richard imagines Jesus speaking these words to us, offering God’s love and forgiveness: My beloved, I am your self. I am your beauty. I am your goodness, which you are destroying. I am what you do to what you should love. I am what you are afraid of: your deepest and best and most naked self—your soul....
