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Good Friday is the day on which Catholics commemorate the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Catholics are joined by almost all other Christians in solemn commemoration on this day. It is also a legal holiday around much of the world.
Crucifixion. / ShutterstockWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 15, 2022 / 07:26 am (CNA).Pope Francis has called God s mercy "an abyss beyond our comprehension.""God s mercy can make even the driest land become a garden, can restore life to dry bones ( Ez 37:1-14)," the pope said in his very first Easter Urbi et Orbi message in 2013. "Let us be renewed by God s mercy, let us be loved by Jesus, let us enable the power of his love to transform our lives too," he continued, "and let us become agents of this mercy, channels through which God can water the earth, protect all creation, and make justice and peace flourish."One special way to bring about this transformation in our lives is to undertake the Divine Mercy Novena, which begins each year on Good Friday.This popular, nine-day devotion was shared with the world by St. Faustina Kowalska (1905-1938), a simple, uneducated nun from Poland chosen by Our Lord to be an apostle and secretary of his mercy.Ou