What Happened On Good Friday?
At one end is the belief that nothing was the same after that Friday, not just for Christians but for everyone. While at the other end there is indifference or ignorance. In between, there are many points of view and so a lot of different answers. So, ‘What happened on Good Friday?’ The goodness of Jesus’s love and sacrifice at Calvary is immense, permanent and efficacious. It is inseparably connected to his life on earth before that, and to his Resurrection. What happened is part of a longer story that involves all humanity and the chosen people in particular, and it is part of a more-than-human setting that involves Father, Son and Holy Spirit. I simply want to stress how important it is not to put the crucifixion aside now that we live in the radiance of Easter. The Passion and all it means is not a past event only for our memories. The saving event keeps its link to Easter and afterwards. The Eucharist is a sacrifice because it makes present the sacrifice of the cross, is its memor
