Each word was deliberate. Each word was profound. Here is what He said:

1. “Father, forgive them, they know not what they do.” (Luke 23:34)
He said this while the soldiers were still nailing Him to the cross. Not after. While it was happening. His first words from the cross were a prayer for the people killing Him.

2. “Amen, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.” (Luke 23:43)
The last person Jesus saved before He died was a convicted criminal hanging next to Him. The Church recognizes him as Saint Dismas. He asked only to be remembered. Jesus gave him Paradise.

3. “Woman, behold your son. Behold your mother.” (John 19:26-27)
Nailed to the cross, Jesus looked down and entrusted His mother to John. The Church holds that in this moment Jesus was not only providing for Mary personally. He was giving her as Mother to all of humanity.

4. “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:46)
The only time Jesus called God “God” instead of “Father.” He was quoting Psalm 22, written by King David 1,000 years earlier. The Church is clear: this was not despair. Psalm 22 begins in suffering but ends in total triumph. Jesus was pointing His listeners to the whole psalm.

5. “I thirst.” (John 19:28)
Two words. The Creator of all water, dying of thirst. Catholic teaching holds that His thirst was not only physical but a thirst for souls. Saint Teresa of Calcutta built her entire mission around these two words.

6. “It is finished.” (John 19:30)
In Latin: “Consummatum est.” The debt was paid in full. The Old Covenant fulfilled. The sacrifice complete. He bowed His head and died.

7. “Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.” (Luke 23:46)
His last breath was a prayer to the Father. He came from the Father. He returned to the Father. He brought us with Him.

No greater love has ever been shown.

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What our Lord went through on 4/3/33

Today is Good Friday. We remember the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ.

After being arrested the night before, Jesus was beaten, flogged, crowned with thorns and sentenced to death by Pontius Pilate. He carried His cross through Jerusalem and was nailed to it. Darkness covered the land from noon to 3pm. At 3pm He said: “It is finished.” And He died. (John 19:30)

He was taken down from the cross and buried in a tomb before sundown. A large stone was rolled across the entrance and guards were posted outside in fear that His disciples might steal the body and claim He had risen from the dead.

No greater love has ever been shown.

“the Jews who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men”
1 Thessalonians 2:14-15

After washing the feet of His disciples and offering His own Body and Blood at the Last Supper, Christ retreats to the Garden of Gethsemane. He knows exactly what is coming. The scourging, the thorns, the agonizing weight of the cross. The burden of every sin in human history crushes down on Him until He sweats drops of blood into the dirt.

Before a single Roman soldier laid a hand on Him, the sheer psychological and spiritual terror of what He was about to absorb crushed Him so violently that His capillaries burst, bleeding through His pores into the soil.

Friday was the physical execution, but Thursday night was the ultimate battle of the Will. This is the exact moment He looked into the terrifying abyss, accepted the cup of God's wrath, and said: "Not my will, but Yours be done." He didn't wait to be captured. He fought and won the war in His own soul before the enemy even marched up the mountain.

In His darkest hour of dread, He looks to His closest companions for support. He finds them fast asleep. Their comfort won over their loyalty. Shortly after, the heavy silence of the garden is shattered by the arrival of the mob, the glow of torches, the drawing of swords, and the ultimate betrayal sealed with a kiss from a friend.

Tonight, the altars are stripped completely bare. The tabernacles are left open and empty. The Church descends into mourning. The modern world continues to trade Him for silver, mock Him for cheap applause, and sleep soundly through the spiritual war. Do not be like the sleeping Apostles. The Passion has begun. Hold the line.

Today is Holy Wednesday, or as we traditionally call it: Spy Wednesday the day Judas betrayed Jesus for 30 silver coins.

But something curious most people miss is the fact Judas betrayed the Son of Man for little more than 4 months of wage. Literally.

When we hear "thirty pieces of silver," it sounds like a mythical, massive pirate's treasure. It wasn't.

Let's do some quick math.

The coins were likely Tyrian shekels. One shekel was worth exactly four Roman denarii. A denarius was the standard wage for one day of hard manual labor.

Thirty shekels equaled 120 days of work. Exactly four months' wages.

Judas Iscariot didn't get a palace. He didn't get an army. He didn't get political immunity. He handed over the Creator of the Universe to be tortured to death for the equivalent of a used car or a few months of cheap rent.

We look at Judas with absolute disgust, but we do the exact same thing. Sin never offers you a fair trade.

The devil doesn't need to offer you the entire world to buy your soul; he just needs to find out how ridiculously cheap your price is.

Men abandon their faith, break their vows, and compromise their integrity every single day for a slight promotion, a fleeting moment of pleasure, or a tiny bit of social approval.

You are trading eternity for pocket change.

Revelation 3:9 : "I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews though they are not, but are liars—I will make them come and fall down at your feet..."

Despite the effeminate Christians of the last 50yrs trying to indoctrinate you into aggressively defending the Jesus hating Jewish state of Israel while pussyfooting and playing the little weakling in defending their own faith there are still those of us that understand the Bible and remember the history of the crusade fighting warriors how fought to the DEATH for our savior Jesus Christ.

And they wonder why God's wrath was severe at times.