This week on the SSPX podcast will be sharing the parish mission from St. Vincent DePaul's in Kansas City as it was delivered in 2004.

Today, Passion Friday, we'll be hearing from Father Gerard Beck on the topic of the suffering of our Lord by looking at the figures of Simon the Serenian and Mary Magdalene.

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And next week, we'll have another series of meditations on the passion of our Lord for Holy Week.

Now, we'll turn to the Friday evening mission from Father Beck.

Thank you. We'll turn to the Friday evening mission from Father Beck. I am to speak to you tonight of two of those who suffered with our Lord on Calvary,

Mary Magdalene and Simon the Serenian.

Like Father Gardner, I'll try to refrain for the most part from commenting on the Passion of the Christ movie.

But I think it's a good place to start.

I refer to a scene, the scene when we're first introduced to Simon the Serenian.

The soldiers come to him to force the cross upon him.

And he cries out and he says,

No, it's none of my business.

Find somebody else.

These words aren't reported in scripture, actually.

But we do know that Simon was indeed constrained to carry the cross.

It wasn't his choice.

And we certainly wouldn't blame him for saying those very words.

We would have been inclined to say the same thing, perhaps.

But how wrongly it is our business.

It is our business, my dear friends,

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