DETROIT — Archbishop Edward J. Weisenburger continued the Triduum celebration at the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Detroit on Good Friday, leading the Liturgy of the Lord's Passion for the first time as Detroit's chief shepherd.
On the one day of the year when Mass cannot be celebrated, the tabernacle was empty and the altar was stripped bare.
Following the reading of Christ's Passion according to the Gospel of St. John, the faithful had the opportunity to venerate the Cross upon which the world was redeemed.
The liturgy commemorates the passion, death and burial of Our Lord, as the Church now waits in vigil for the celebration of the Resurrection.
"To visit Calvary today is to encounter the place where history's greatest sacrifice was offered, where the Lamb of God was slaughtered, where the Prince of Peace stretched out his arms for the salvation of the world," Archbishop Weisenburger said in his homily. "Today, in this beautiful cathedral church, we strive to do what pilgrims have done in Jerusalem for generations — we seek to connect with the mystery of the passion."
(Photos by Valaurian Waller | Detroit Catholic)
