Chapter 14

Two days ago, I was spending the one-hundredth anniversary of Club Lucent Fucking the and having the time of my complicated life with the Love of my life Tete, and after two days hanging out in her place it was time to get back to the matter at hand, I told her, rather begged her to please keep at least the crucifix with her at all times as she blatantly refused to go staying with my mom in the church or any church what's so ever.
She agreed, to keep the Bible and crucifix if only I promised her I will be alive to see him get rid of them and I promised, we kissed and I called Asmodeus to tell him I was easy, a vortex appeared and I was gone, back to fighting my destiny.

"So what now?" I asked Asmodeus.
"Michael said he had to go talk to God, see what he had to say on the matter, but we decided not to, you see he might give a verdict and that will be final what if he says you are to be the Antichrist there will be nothing we can do about it, so let's just try to fight this on our own first and see where it goes" He replied.

"So we are sticking to Christ's nail plan?" I asked
"Yes, we are," he said.
"Cool, so what are we parking," I asked.
"A few clothes, your passport, a cool head and courage, we are going to the Holy Land," he said
"Jerusalem?" I asked"
"Yes Jerusalem," he said.

So Asmodeus created a portal, and soon enough we found ourselves in Israel Jerusalem to be precise, and the first order of things we needed to do was get ourselves some new clothes, did we have money on us? , No but Asmodeus was the brother to the ruler of the world according to the Bible so it was only right he was the right connection.

We went into the nearest mall we could find and made our choices. We came out soon enough, dressing to blend in but not too much to seem like one of the locals
Just a shirt, jeans, boots a pair of boots and dark shades, a scarf too to fit, and bags containing our change of clothes.
We checked into a fancy hotel and Asmodeus paid for a master suite where we refreshed and bags planning for the tasks ahead
"Where do we start looking," I asked " I saw something on our way down here it was a museum, it read 'TERRA SONETA' and under it the was an inscription 'Christ's Museum ' why don't we start there," I said.
"Okay let's go," he said.

Going through the Museum with our guide, showing us More scrolls, dressing, markings, paintings and the likes, normally it would have been an enjoyable sight but we were here for more than sightseeing, we need the nail that pierced the hands of the Christ, and it seemed we were heading nowhere.
Asmodeus pulled our guide to the side and asked her if there was a chance that actual artefacts that were used by Christ were here like his clothes, Sandals, the crown of thorns or even the nails that he was pierced with.
She told him they were scattered in many places but the nail was in Jerusalem, the valley of the skull, Golgotha, or Calvary, where Christ died, they were still nailed to the cross.
We went back to the hotel with this information to plan on the next line of action, how were we going to get it without causing a scene or dragging attraction.

"Hail, Mary, full of grace,
the Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou amongst women
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God,
pray for us sinners,
now and at the hour of our death.
Amen."
Rose, may and Mary just finished reciting the Hail Mary and were about to go to the church for the Good Friday Service.
As the three of them walked from the artic where Mary stayed, down the stairs, Amy kept singing the lyrics of the song by Daughters of Mary God of Mercy and Compassion.

"God of mercy and compassion,
Look with pity upon me,
Father let me call Thee Father,
‘Tis thy child returns to Thee.

Jesus Lord, I ask for mercy;
Let me not implore in vain;
All my sins, I now detest them,
Never will I sin again.

By now the Spencer sisters had joined in and were heartily singing too.

By my sins, I have deserved
Death and endless misery,
Hell with all its pains and torments,
And for all eternity.

Jesus Lord, I ask for mercy;
Let me not implore in vain;
All my sins, I now detest them,
Never will I sin again.


By my sins, I have abandoned
Right and claim to heaven above,
Where the Saints rejoice forever
In a boundless sea of love.

Jesus Lord, I ask for mercy;
Let me not implore in vain;
All my sins, I now detest them,
Never will I sin again.


See our Saviour, bleeding, dying,
On the cross of Calvary;
To that cross, my sins have nailed Him,
Yet He bleeds and dies for me.

Jesus Lord, I ask for mercy;
Let me not implore in vain;
All my sins, I now detest them,
Never will I sin again".

The trio soon reached the gathering of the congregation where the procedure for the Good Friday service had begun.

The Veneration of the Cross
In the seventh century, the Church in Rome adopted the practice of Adoration of the Cross from the Church in Jerusalem, where a fragment of wood believed to be the Lord's cross had been venerated every year on Good Friday since the fourth century. According to tradition, a part of the Holy Cross was discovered by the mother of the emperor Constantine, St. Helen, on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 326. A fifth-century account describes this service in Jerusalem. A coffer of gold-plated silver containing the wood of the cross was brought forward. The bishop placed the relic on the table in the chapel of the Crucifixion and the faithful approached it, touching brow and eyes and lips to the wood as the priest said (as every priest has done ever since): 'Behold, the Wood of the Cross.'
Adoration or veneration of an image or representation of Christ's cross does not mean that we are adoring the material image, of course, but rather what it represents. In kneeling before the crucifix and kissing it they are paying the highest honour to the Lord's cross as the instrument of salvation. Because the Cross is inseparable from His sacrifice, in reverencing His Cross they are, in effect, adoring Christ. Thus they affirm: 'We adore Thee, O Christ, and we bless Thee because by Thy Holy Cross Thou has Redeemed the World.'

The Reproaches and the Reading of the Passion
The Reproaches (Improperia), are often chanted by a priest during the Good Friday service as the people are venerating the Cross. In this haunting and poignant poem-like chant of very ancient origin, Christ himself 'reproaches' us, making us more deeply aware of how our sinfulness and hardness of heart caused such agony for our sinless and loving Savior. A modern translation of the some of the Reproaches, originally in Latin follows:

My people, What have I done to you? How have I offended you? Answer me!
I led you out of Egypt, but you led your Savior to the Cross.
For forty years I led you safely through the desert,
I fed you with manna from heaven
and brought you to the land of plenty, But you led your Savior to the Cross.
O, My people! What have I done to you that you should testify against me?

Holy God. Holy God. Holy Mighty One. Holy Immortal One, have mercy on us.
On Good Friday, the entire Church fixes her gaze on the Cross at Calvary. Each member of the Church tries to understand at what cost Christ has won our redemption. In the solemn ceremonies of Good Friday, in the Adoration of the Cross, in the chanting of the 'Reproaches', in the reading of the Passion, and in receiving the pre-consecrated Host, we unite ourselves to our Savior, and we contemplate our death to sin in the Death of our Lord.

The Church - stripped of its ornaments, the altar bare, and with the door of the empty tabernacle standing open - is as if in mourning. In the fourth century the Apostolic Constitutions described this day as a 'day of mourning, not a day of festive joy,' and this day was called the 'Pasch (passage) of the Crucifixion.'

The liturgical observance of this day of Christ's suffering, crucifixion and death evidently has been in existence from the earliest days of the Church. No Mass is celebrated on this day, but the service of Good Friday is called the Mass of the Presanctified because Communion (in the species of bread) which had already been consecrated on Holy Thursday is given to the people.

Traditionally, the organ is silent from Holy Thursday until the Alleluia at the Easter Vigil, as are all bells or other instruments, the only music during this period being unaccompanied chant.

The omission of the prayer of consecration deepens our sense of loss because Mass throughout the year reminds us of the Lord's triumph over death, the source of our joy and blessing. The desolate quality of the rites of this day reminds us of Christ's humiliation and suffering during his Passion. We can see that the parts of the Good Friday service correspond to the divisions of Mass:

Liturgy of the Word - reading of the Passion.
Intercessory prayers for the Church and the entire world, Christian and non-Christian.
Veneration of the Cross
Communion, or the 'Mass of the Pre-Sanctified.'


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