GOOD FRIDAY OR SORROWFUL FRIDAY

ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA:  Friday before Easter, the day on which Christians annually observe the commemoration of the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ. From the early days of Christianity, Good Friday was observed as a day of sorrow, penance, and fasting, a characteristic that finds expression in the German word Karfreitag (“Sorrowful Friday”). Christ’s arrest, trial, suffering, crucifixion, and death are recorded in all four Gospel accounts, with slightly varying chronologies and details. 

 

Palm Sunday, marks another historical event concerning Jesus of Nazareth that continues to be a controversy between science (archaeology) and theology as time goes on. Palm Sunday, according to the Canonical Gospels rode a colt into Jerusalem with his disciples and friends and how the people lay down their cloaks in front of him and branches of the Palm tree as well. The people sang part of Psalm 118:

… Blessed is he who comes in the name of Yahweh. Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father, David …

"If the Catholic Church Teaches it, it Means that Christ Taught it"

 

An oddity observed among some ‘learned’ theologians is that they become so learned that they miss the obvious. Some think the Church’s dogmatically defined teachings alone comprise the infallible “de fide” teachings that Catholics are bound to believe, when in fact we are bound to believe everything that Christ taught. The teachings of the Church’s ordinary universal teaching authority (non-defined teachings) are just as infallible as the dogmas, which means the faithful are bound to believe them.

 Let us not forget the teaching of St. Augustine: “Wrong is wrong even if everybody is doing it, right is right even if nobody is doing it.” What makes an article of faith infallible is the fact that Jesus Christ himself set it in stone 2000-years ago, not that a body of bishops endorsed it.

SOURCE: Canada Free Press article by David Martin.  

BRINGING IN THE NEW YEAR 2026 WITH REFLECTIONS OF 2025

 Reflecting upon events of 2025, the most poignant event was the assassination of Charlie Kirk on September 10th 2025. Since TIME magazine didn't include Charlie in their important events of 2025 issue, I felt compelled to honor him in my way. Megyn Kelly professes her outrage that TIME magazine made an 'AI' Person of the Year. The Christian Post wrote: "Time magazine is facing backlash from one of conservative media’s biggest voices over its decision to snub Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk as its “Person of the Year” despite Kirk’s death marking the first major political assassination in the U.S. since the 1960s. Instead, the century-old magazine gave its annual award to a collective of tech titans leading the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, framing the year as a tipping point when the technology "roared into view" with irreversible momentum. 

MERRY CHRISTMAS

 Wishing all a Merry Christmas on the eve of Christ's birth.

PHENOMENOLOGY OF WORLD RELIGION by KEITH ALLEN LEHMAN

 

Now available in condensed publication (Volumes 1-3) at Amazon. 

"Man has not only developed religion to explain the unknown, but has entered a personal relationship with the power he fears and with the deity or deities he worships. The basic ways that man relates to this is through offering, prayer, and ritual acts." [Introduction, p. 5]

EASTER MESSAGE

Easter Day commemorates the victory of Jesus Christ over death. It is a tradition for Christians to attend mass and churches to remember what the founder of Christianity represents and the covenant with God.

Adore God. Reverence and cherish your parents. Love your neighbor as yourself, and your country more than yourself. Be just. Be true. Murmur not at the ways of Providence.
Thomas Jefferson

Those who are not Christians use the day to gather with family for a traditional feast enjoying the unity of the family nucleus, an entity that has slowly disintegrated in the society of the United States.
In a speech given by Ronald Reagan, he stated:

I have said that we must be cautious claiming that God is on our side. I think the real question we must answer is: Are we on His side?