Here are the recordings and notes for my three homilies through the Triduum: Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday.
MAUNDY THURSDAY
1 Corinthians 11:17-34
What Jesus has accomplished with his blood is offered to you right now in this Sacrament.
Do you judge yourself truly?
GOOD FRIDAY
Isaiah 52:13-53:12
Jesus acted wisely (or prospered) by undergoing this Passion.
- High and lifted up, exalted on the Cross
- Appearance was astonishingly marred
- He shall sprinkle (purify) many nations
- Kings will be impressed by this sacrifice
- Jesus didn’t seem like a king himself, beforehand
- He carried our griefs and sorrows
- He received the punishment meant for us
- All of us are/were guilty, and he took all our iniquities
- He did not object to his maltreatment (for it was God’s will)
- This offering of himself will prosper in his hand
- His righteousness shall “make many to be accounted righteous”
- And he shall bear their iniquities (thus, an exchange)
- Therefore he shall divide the spoil, as a victory over evil & death
HOLY SATURDAY
1 Peter 3:17-22
Even in death, Jesus proclaims victory.
Q. What meaneth his descending into Hell? – from Nowell’s Middle Catechism, 1572 –
A. That as Christ in his body descended into the bowels of the earth, so in his soul severed from his body, he descended into hell;
and that therewith also, the virtue of his death so pierced through to the dead, and to Hell itself,
- that both the souls of the unbelieving felt their most painful and just damnation for infidelity, and Satan himself, the Prince of hell, felt that all the power of his tyranny and darkness was weakened, vanquished, and fallen to ruin;
- and on the other side, the dead who while they lived, believed in Christ, understood that the work of their redemption was now finished, and perceived the effect and strength thereof with most sweet and assured comfort.
Leorningcnihtes boc 