Friday, April 3, 2026

Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion

 Jn 18:1—19:42

Jesus went out with his disciples across the Kidron valley 
to where there was a garden, 
into which he and his disciples entered.
Judas his betrayer also knew the place, 
because Jesus had often met there with his disciples.
So Judas got a band of soldiers and guards 
from the chief priests and the Pharisees 
and went there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.
Jesus, knowing everything that was going to happen to him, 
went out and said to them, “Whom are you looking for?”
They answered him, “Jesus the Nazorean.”
He said to them, “I AM.”
Judas his betrayer was also with them.
When he said to them, “I AM, “ 
they turned away and fell to the ground.
So he again asked them,
“Whom are you looking for?”
They said, “Jesus the Nazorean.”
Jesus answered,
“I told you that I AM.
So if you are looking for me, let these men go.”
This was to fulfill what he had said, 
“I have not lost any of those you gave me.”
Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it, 
struck the high priest’s slave, and cut off his right ear.
The slave’s name was Malchus.
Jesus said to Peter,
“Put your sword into its scabbard.
Shall I not drink the cup that the Father gave me?”

So the band of soldiers, the tribune, and the Jewish guards seized Jesus,
bound him, and brought him to Annas first.
He was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, 
who was high priest that year.
It was Caiaphas who had counseled the Jews 
that it was better that one man should die rather than the people.

Simon Peter and another disciple followed Jesus.
Now the other disciple was known to the high priest, 
and he entered the courtyard of the high priest with Jesus.
But Peter stood at the gate outside.
So the other disciple, the acquaintance of the high priest, 
went out and spoke to the gatekeeper and brought Peter in.
Then the maid who was the gatekeeper said to Peter, 
“You are not one of this man’s disciples, are you?”
He said, “I am not.”
Now the slaves and the guards were standing around a charcoal fire
that they had made, because it was cold,
and were warming themselves.
Peter was also standing there keeping warm.

The high priest questioned Jesus 
about his disciples and about his doctrine.
Jesus answered him,
“I have spoken publicly to the world.
I have always taught in a synagogue 
or in the temple area where all the Jews gather, 
and in secret I have said nothing.  Why ask me?
Ask those who heard me what I said to them.
They know what I said.”
When he had said this, 
one of the temple guards standing there struck Jesus and said, 
“Is this the way you answer the high priest?”
Jesus answered him,
“If I have spoken wrongly, testify to the wrong; 
but if I have spoken rightly, why do you strike me?”
Then Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas the high priest.

Now Simon Peter was standing there keeping warm.
And they said to him,
“You are not one of his disciples, are you?”
He denied it and said,
“I am not.”
One of the slaves of the high priest, 
a relative of the one whose ear Peter had cut off, said, 
“Didn’t I see you in the garden with him?”
Again Peter denied it.
And immediately the cock crowed.

Then they brought Jesus from Caiaphas to the praetorium.
It was morning.
And they themselves did not enter the praetorium, 
in order not to be defiled so that they could eat the Passover.
So Pilate came out to them and said, 
“What charge do you bring against this man?”
They answered and said to him,
“If he were not a criminal, 
we would not have handed him over to you.”
At this, Pilate said to them, 
“Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law.”
The Jews answered him, 
“We do not have the right to execute anyone,“ 
in order that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled
that he said indicating the kind of death he would die.
So Pilate went back into the praetorium 
and summoned Jesus and said to him, 
“Are you the King of the Jews?”
Jesus answered,
“Do you say this on your own 
or have others told you about me?”
Pilate answered,
“I am not a Jew, am I?
Your own nation and the chief priests handed you over to me.
What have you done?”
Jesus answered,
“My kingdom does not belong to this world.
If my kingdom did belong to this world, 
my attendants would be fighting 
to keep me from being handed over to the Jews.
But as it is, my kingdom is not here.”
So Pilate said to him,
“Then you are a king?”
Jesus answered,
“You say I am a king.
For this I was born and for this I came into the world, 
to testify to the truth.
Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.”
Pilate said to him, “What is truth?”

When he had said this,
he again went out to the Jews and said to them,
“I find no guilt in him.
But you have a custom that I release one prisoner to you at Passover.
Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”
They cried out again,
“Not this one but Barabbas!”
Now Barabbas was a revolutionary.

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.
Once more Pilate went out and said to them, 
“Look, I am bringing him out to you, 
so that you may know that I find no guilt in him.”
So Jesus came out, 
wearing the crown of thorns and the purple cloak.
And he said to them, “Behold, the man!”
When the chief priests and the guards saw him they cried out, 
“Crucify him, crucify him!”

Pilate said to them,
“Take him yourselves and crucify him.
I find no guilt in him.”
The Jews answered, 
“We have a law, and according to that law he ought to die, 
because he made himself the Son of God.”
Now when Pilate heard this statement,
he became even more afraid, 
and went back into the praetorium and said to Jesus, 
“Where are you from?”
Jesus did not answer him.
So Pilate said to him,
“Do you not speak to me?
Do you not know that I have power to release you 
and I have power to crucify you?”
Jesus answered him,
“You would have no power over me 
if it had not been given to you from above.
For this reason the one who handed me over to you
has the greater sin.”
Consequently, Pilate tried to release him; but the Jews cried out, 
“If you release him, you are not a Friend of Caesar.
Everyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar.”

When Pilate heard these words he brought Jesus out 
and seated him on the judge’s bench 
in the place called Stone Pavement, in Hebrew, Gabbatha.
It was preparation day for Passover, and it was about noon.
And he said to the Jews,
“Behold, your king!”
They cried out,
“Take him away, take him away!  Crucify him!”
Pilate said to them,
“Shall I crucify your king?”
The chief priests answered,
“We have no king but Caesar.”
Then he handed him over to them to be crucified.

So they took Jesus, and, carrying the cross himself, 
he went out to what is called the Place of the Skull, 
in Hebrew, Golgotha.
There they crucified him, and with him two others, 
one on either side, with Jesus in the middle.
Pilate also had an inscription written and put on the cross.
It read,
“Jesus the Nazorean, the King of the Jews.”
Now many of the Jews read this inscription, 
because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; 
and it was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.
So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, 
“Do not write ‘The King of the Jews,’
but that he said, ‘I am the King of the Jews’.”
Pilate answered,
“What I have written, I have written.”

When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, 
they took his clothes and divided them into four shares, 
a share for each soldier.
They also took his tunic, but the tunic was seamless, 
woven in one piece from the top down.
So they said to one another, 
“Let’s not tear it, but cast lots for it to see whose it will be, “ 
in order that the passage of Scripture might be fulfilled that says:
    They divided my garments among them,
        and for my vesture they cast lots.

This is what the soldiers did.
Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother
and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas,
and Mary of Magdala.
When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there whom he loved
he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son.”
Then he said to the disciple,
“Behold, your mother.”
And from that hour the disciple took her into his home.

After this, aware that everything was now finished, 
in order that the Scripture might be fulfilled, 
Jesus said, “I thirst.”
There was a vessel filled with common wine.
So they put a sponge soaked in wine on a sprig of hyssop 
and put it up to his mouth.
When Jesus had taken the wine, he said,
“It is finished.”
And bowing his head, he handed over the spirit.

        Here all kneel and pause for a short time.

Now since it was preparation day,
in order that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the sabbath,
for the sabbath day of that week was a solemn one, 
the Jews asked Pilate that their legs be broken 
and that they be taken down.
So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first 
and then of the other one who was crucified with Jesus.
But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, 
they did not break his legs, 
but one soldier thrust his lance into his side, 
and immediately blood and water flowed out.
An eyewitness has testified, and his testimony is true; 
he knows that he is speaking the truth, 
so that you also may come to believe.
For this happened so that the Scripture passage might be fulfilled:
    Not a bone of it will be broken.
And again another passage says:
    They will look upon him whom they have pierced.

After this, Joseph of Arimathea, 
secretly a disciple of Jesus for fear of the Jews, 
asked Pilate if he could remove the body of Jesus.
And Pilate permitted it.
So he came and took his body.
Nicodemus, the one who had first come to him at night, 
also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes 
weighing about one hundred pounds.
They took the body of Jesus 
and bound it with burial cloths along with the spices, 
according to the Jewish burial custom.
Now in the place where he had been crucified there was a garden, 
and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had yet been buried.
So they laid Jesus there because of the Jewish preparation day; 
for the tomb was close by.

 

Marlon Brando - 102

Marlon Brando was born 102 years ago today.

Thursday, April 2, 2026

Trump Fires Pam Bondi

Peter Doocy gets the scoop.

Gutfeld: Newsom's Nervous Breakdown

What is wrong with Gavin Newsom?

Very strange.

Charlie Kirk and Birthright Citizenship

Trump Shares Thoughts on Springsteen

Keep in mind that Bruce Springsteen is currently on a "Hate Trump" tour.

Tony Evers Doesn't Protect Wisconsin Kids

National Mall Celebrates the Launch of Artemis II

Holy Thursday

 Jn 13:1-15

 Before the feast of Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come
to pass from this world to the Father.
He loved his own in the world and he loved them to the end.
The devil had already induced Judas, son of Simon the Iscariot, to hand him over.
So, during supper,
fully aware that the Father had put everything into his power
and that he had come from God and was returning to God,
he rose from supper and took off his outer garments.
He took a towel and tied it around his waist.
Then he poured water into a basin
and began to wash the disciples’ feet
and dry them with the towel around his waist.
He came to Simon Peter, who said to him,
“Master, are you going to wash my feet?”
Jesus answered and said to him,
“What I am doing, you do not understand now,
but you will understand later.”
Peter said to him, “You will never wash my feet.”
Jesus answered him,
“Unless I wash you, you will have no inheritance with me.”
Simon Peter said to him,
“Master, then not only my feet, but my hands and head as well.”
Jesus said to him,
“Whoever has bathed has no need except to have his feet washed,
            for he is clean all over;
so you are clean, but not all.”
For he knew who would betray him;
for this reason, he said, “Not all of you are clean.”

So when he had washed their feet
and put his garments back on and reclined at table again,
he said to them, “Do you realize what I have done for you?
You call me ‘teacher’ and ‘master,’  and rightly so, for indeed I am.
If I, therefore, the master and teacher, have washed your feet,
you ought to wash one another’s feet.
I have given you a model to follow,
so that as I have done for you, you should also do.”

Saint John Paul II

Twenty-one years ago today, Pope John Paul II died.









Wednesday, April 1, 2026

TRUMP IS NOT A KING

Anyone claiming President Trump is a king is a fool, a dunce, an absolute idiot.

Artemis II Launch Is Real

Gavin Newsom's Wife Shares His Wild Hand Gestures

I wonder which came first. Did Gavin Newsom copy his wife's hand movements? Did Jennifer Siebel Newsom model her gestures after her husband's goofy mannerisms?

They both look like fools. It's so distracting and weird.

Operation Epic Fury - 'Perfect Plan'

Vote for Maria Lazar

This should be enough to send you running to the polls. Vote early or vote on Election Day.

Kid Excited About Artemis II Launch

Funny.

Trump Attends Supreme Court Oral Arguments

PETA: 'Every Steak Had a Heartbeat'

The UN and Israel - April Fools

Iran's 'New Execution Spree'

I wish Pope Leo would comment.

Mike Huckabee - April Fools

Samuel Alito and the 14th Amendment

Ketanji Brown Jackson - Stealing Someone's Wallet in Japan

Ketanji Brown Jackson is a disgrace.

Happy Passover

Artemis II Launch - Moon Mission

Be proud. Your tax dollars at work.

Artemis II - To the Moon

What Is 'Birthright Citizenship'?

It's a fraud.

February U.S. Retail Sales Beat Expectations

Gavin Newsom's Wife Shares His Wild Hand Gestures

I wonder which came first. Did Gavin Newsom copy his wife's hand movements? Did Jennifer Siebel Newsom model her gestures after her husband's goofy mannerisms?

They both look like fools. It's so distracting and weird.

Pastor Leads Kids in Prayer

Supreme Court Rules Against Ban on 'Conversion Therapy'

Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Christopher Walken - 83

Christopher Walken was born 83 years ago today.

Chuck Berry: 'Johnny B. Goode' - 68 Years Ago

Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode" was released 68 years ago today.

"Send more Chuck Berry."

Adrian Walker Arrested

Thank you, ICE.

You're welcome, Canada.

Bunker Buster

Pete Hegseth Lifts Suspension on Pilots

"Carry on, patriots."

Trump Signs Executive Order to Curb Mail-In Vote Fraud

Good.

Three-Judge Panel Dismisses Lawsuit to Redraw Wisconsin Congressional Boundaries

Marc Elias gets knocked down again.

Activist Judge Halts White House Ballroom Construction

Insanity.

Marco Rubio Explains Why US Attacked Iran

MARCO RUBIO: Why the attack now? Well, what was Iran trying to do? Iran was trying to build a conventional shield, in essence, have so many missiles, have so many drones, that no one could attack them, and they were well on their way.

We were on the verge of an Iran that had so many missiles and so many drones, that no one could do anything about their nuclear weapons program in the future. That was an intolerable risk.

This was our LAST best chance to eliminate that conventional threat, that conventional shield that they were trying to build, and the president made the right decision to wipe it out now.
Understand?

Trump Calls Out State Farm for California Fires Response

Tony Evers Vetoed Common Sense Bills

Democrat extremists like Tony Evers are out of touch with Wisconsinites.

Whoopi Goldberg and Trump's Propsed Presidential Library

Whoopi Goldberg is deranged.

Trump Presidential Library

'Straights of Hormuz'

Unbelievable.

Iryna Zarutska Mural in Rhode Island Being Removed

What does Democrat David Morales value?

Does he want criminals to feel safe in Providence?

King and Queen - State Visit to U.S.

"Their Majesties’ programme will celebrate the historic connections and the modern bilateral relationship between the UK and the US, marking the 250th anniversary of American Independence."

No Kings Protesters - CLUELESS

Trump Derangement Syndrome. These people hate President Trump. They're irrational.

They hate President Trump, members of his administration, and his supporters.

Some of them hate America. They're Communists. They want to take over the country and tear it down.

Trump's Suggestion for the United Kingdom

Anti-Christian Bigotry - Chicago Bulls

America Has No Kings

How to waste billions of dollars.

Woman Refuses to Comply With Wisconsin State Patrol

This woman chose to record herself behaving terribly.

Why does she think she can ignore the orders of the state trooper?

How much does she weigh?

Monday, March 30, 2026

Jason Aldean Rejects Stephen Colbert's Snark

DOJ Files Title IX Lawsuit Against Minnesota

Women's rights!

Men do not belong in women's sports.

Tom Tiffany Will End Vehicle Emissions Testing

Great!

Biological Men Playing in Women's Sports

Protecting women in sports isn't about being "scared of trans people."

Chicago Bulls Waive Jaden Ivey

Donald J. Trump International Airport

Members of Congress Shirk Their Duties

FBI Confirms Michigan Synagogue Attack Was Hezbollah-Inspired Terrorism

What is happening in Michigan?

TSA Employees Will Get Paychecks

The Democrats are all about chaos and hurting the American people.

Trump and First Lady's Plans for Holy Week

Media Coverage of Sheridan Gorman's Murder

Legacy media are disgraceful. They are waging a war on truth. They are propagandists. They are hacks.

L.A. County - Largest Population Decline in U.S. in 2025

Democrats have done so much damage to California. It's sad.

Trump: Birthright Citizenship and 'Dumb Judges and Justices'

Bayshore Mall Takeover - Milwaukee's North Shore

13 people arrested after large crowd and fights at Bayshore Mall

GLENDALE — Dozens of police squads responded to Bayshore Mall in Glendale on Sunday afternoon in response to a large gathering of people, according to TMJ4 crews on scene.

Glendale Police said they were aware of social media posts referencing a possible “takeover” at Bayshore Mall and worked with Bayshore management to enhance security and increase police presence ahead of time.

Despite the increased presence, TMJ4 crews saw hundreds of teens gathered at the mall Sunday afternoon, and TMJ4 cameras captured several fights, including one that spilled out onto busy Port Washington Road.

Glendale Police, the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office, and mall security spent several hours working to clear the area and disperse the crowd.

...Glendale Police confirmed at least 13 people were arrested in connection with the incident. Charges range from disorderly conduct and battery to resisting an officer.

There was an effort to prevent the takeover, and it was somewhat successful. That's good, but even with the police presence, fights broke out. Thirteen people were arrested.

I suppose it could have been worse.

Trump Saves the Beagles

I can't wait to hear the Trump-deranged Democrats/Marxists/Leftists come out against the abolishment of the inhumane treatment and testing of beagles, chimps, and other animals.

Will the crazed women on The View complain about these sweet dogs being spared thanks to President Trump?

They all sicken me.

I can't think of inhumane treatment of beagles without thinking of evil Fauci.
Evil.

Take Me Home, Country Roads

John Denver died in 1997, but his music lives, even in Japan.

Pope Leo and People Who Wage War

No Kings Explained

These No Kings protesters are useful idiots.