Thomas Griffin 4/19/25 (For National Catholic Register)
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Let Us Begin: New Book on the Life and Power of St. Francis
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The childhood memories of the Stations of the Cross and the 3:00 p.m. Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion on Good Friday are ironed into my brain and heart. They were and are true opportunities to make contact with the gravity and seriousness of this most holy day.
I can clearly hear the refrain of “Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?” being sung as we solemnly walked the church grounds. I can visualize the priests, in their deep red vestments, laying prostrate in silence on the cold marble of the sanctuary exactly at 3 p.m.
Entering into the memory of childhood faith moments is powerful. Entering into the suffering, death and resurrection of Christ is the reason for Holy Week. Jesus knew that his followers, and the believers that would come, would need a good memory to endure the future. However, the true sense of Catholic memory is even more than that.
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Thomas Griffin is the chairperson of the religion department at a Catholic high school on Long Island where he lives with his wife and two sons. He has a masters degree in theology and is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Empty Tomb Project: The Magazine. He is the author of Let Us Begin: Saint Francis’s Way of Becoming Like Christ and Renewing the World.
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