Good Friday 2024: Homily from St. Peter’s Basilica

Friday, March 29, 2024

Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa, OFM Cap

“When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will realize that I AM” (John 8:28). This is the word that Jesus pronounced at the end of a heated dispute with his opponents.

Good Friday 2023: Homily from St. Peter’s Basilica

Friday, April 7, 2023

Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa, OFM Cap

Read the full text of Cardinal Cantalamessa's homily for Good Friday 2023, offered during the Celebration of the Lord's Passion in St. Peter's Basilica.

The Letter: Epic new film with Pope Francis, Cardinal Cantalamessa, and frontline champions

Wednesday, October 5, 2022

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Cardinal Cantalamessa has been the official preacher to St. John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI, and Pope Francis. Hear his take on Pope Francis and God’s plan for our planet. Watch now: TheLetterFilm.org/Watch Intervention of His Eminence Cardinal Michael Czerny, S.J. In 2015, Pope Francis released his great encyclical letter Laudato si’. It has had […]

Good Friday 2022: Homily from St. Peter’s Basilica

Friday, April 15, 2022

Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa, OFM Cap

Read the full text of Cardinal Cantalamessa's homily for Good Friday 2022, offered during the Celebration of the Lord's Passion in St. Peter's Basilica.

Good Friday homily from St. Peter’s Basilica

Friday, April 2, 2021

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Read the full text of Cardinal Cantalamessa's homily for Good Friday, offered during the Celebration of the Lord's Passion in St. Peter's Basilica.

Good Friday homily from St. Peter's Basilica

Friday, April 10, 2020

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Read the full text of Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa's homily for Good Friday, offered during the Celebration of the Lord's Passion in St. Peter's Basilica.

Good Friday homily from St. Peter’s Basilica

Friday, April 19, 2019

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Read the full text of Fr. Cantalamessa's homily for Good Friday, offered during the Celebration of the Lord's Passion in St. Peter's Basilica.

Homily of Fr. Cantalamessa at Celebration of the Lord’s Passion- March 30, 2018

Friday, March 30, 2018

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Read full text of the Homily of Fr. Cantalamessa at Celebration of the Lord’s Passion at St. Peters Basilica. March 30. 2018.

The Cross, the Only Hope of the World

Friday, April 14, 2017

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On Good Friday at 5:00 p.m., Rome time in St. Peter’s Basilica, Pope Francis presided over the celebration of the Lord’s Passion. During the Liturgy of the Word, the Passion according to the Gospel of John was proclaimed. This was followed by the homily delivered by the Preacher of the Papal Household, Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa, O.F.M. Cap. […]

Good Friday Service – Homily by Fr. Cantalamessa

Friday, March 25, 2016

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“BE RECONCILED TO GOD” God . . . through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation. . . . We beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become […]