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This plan follows the Sunday liturgy:  reading + psalm + reading + gospel       From  www.simplebible.info         Previous R-R-P 

O Holy Spirit, please guide me as I read these passages for today.                     
May these passages give me hope, strength, wisdom, compassion, courage and peace for my daily life     Chinese text

Reading:  Jeremiah 12-14

Lord, you are in our midst, we are called by your name.
Please give us help and strength in this time of trouble.

Wherever I go I see sadness and despair.
Our land has been invaded by the foreign soldier.

If I go into the countryside,
I see men killed by the sword.

If I go into the city,
I see people sick with hunger.

O God, you are our hope.
For your name's sake, please forgive us and help us.

Reflection: 
"Foreign soldiers" occupy many places in the world of 2013. 
May those places have the patience and perseverance and courage of the peoples of East Timor,
Estonia, India, Poland, South Africa  etc ...until freedom comes

Prayer: Lord, please help people whose countries are under occupation by foreign soldiers

Lord my God, day and night I call to you for help.
Please turn your ear to my cry.

For my soul is filled with evils.
My life is on the brink of the grave.

I am reckoned as one in the tomb.
I have reached the end of my strength.

Will your love be told in the grave?
Will your wonders be known in the dark?

Fear surrounds  me like a flood.
They keep on assailing me.

All my friends have deserted me.
My only companion is darkness.

Reflection: 
On the brink of the grave: people in the final stage of terminal cancer; people tempted by suicide;
people ravaged by drugs.

No friends: many drug addicts, AIDS patients, street sleepers, prisoners. We can use Ps 88 on their behalf

Prayer: Jesus, please help people who are at the end of their strength, people who are friendless.
May they know your strength and peace. May they know your friendship

When the religious leaders arrived, they put their case to Felix.
They summed up their accusations by saying "The plain truth is that we find this man to be a perfect pest.
He stirs up trouble among Jews everywhere, and is a ringleader of the Nazarene sect"

Paul replied "In regard to the Way, which they malign as a sect,
I serve and worship the very same God worshipped by our ancestors.
I live in hope that God will raise the dead. If that's my crime, my accusers are just as guilty as I am"

Felix postponed a decision. He met with Paul many  times, hoping  Paul would offer him a bribe

Reflection: 
In many parts of the world today, bribery is common, is taken for granted, is necessary to get things done
....but such a cancer of corruption causes societies to stagnate and decline

Prayer: Jesus, please help judges to avoid bribery

Jesus was put on the cross about 9am.
From about noon until 3pm there was darkness over all the land.

About 3pm Jesus cried out the words of Psalm 22:
"My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"

A little while later he again cried out in a loud voice.
Then he died.

At that moment the holy curtain in the Temple was torn in two from top to bottom,  and there was a violent earthquake.

The Roman soldiers were terrified.
Their leader called out "Truly this was a son of God".

Reflection:
The day of a parent's funeral is a sacred day ....a day of remembering, praying ...a family day. 
Good Friday is the most sacred of all funeral days .... a day for remembering, praying ....a church day 

Prayer: Jesus, thank you for dying on the cross for the salvation of the world