Over many years, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen always ended his traditional Good Friday preaching... with the following stirring and timeless reflection:
" For whenever there is silence round about me---by day or night---I am startled by a cry!
It came down from the cross the first-time I heard it!
And I went out and searched....... and I found a man in the throes of crucifixion!
And I said: " I will take you down”!
And he said: " I cannot be taken down until every man and woman and child come together to take me down”!
But I said: "What can I do ?! ....I cannot bear your cry"!!
And he said: " Go into the world and tell everyone that you meet---
There is a man on the cross!! "
" For whenever there is silence round about me---by day or night---I am startled by a cry!
It came down from the cross the first-time I heard it!
And I went out and searched....... and I found a man in the throes of crucifixion!
And I said: " I will take you down”!
And he said: " I cannot be taken down until every man and woman and child come together to take me down”!
But I said: "What can I do ?! ....I cannot bear your cry"!!
And he said: " Go into the world and tell everyone that you meet---
There is a man on the cross!! "
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