Good Friday Of The Passion Of The Lord

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Day of Fasting and Abstinence

Gospel Reading: John 18:1-19:42

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Then Pilate took Jesus and had him scourged. And the soldiers wove a crown out of thorns and placed it on his head, and clothed him in a purple cloak, and they came to him and said, 
"Hail, King of the Jews!" And they struck him repeatedly.
(John 19:1-3)

If you are able, attend a Good Friday service today, or offer an additional act of penance.*

*Taken from the 2019 Lenten Daily Devotional from the Basilica of The National Shrine of The Immaculate Conception.

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