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Greetings, everyone.

This morning, there was a prayer service with the Center for Action Contemplation with Richard

Roar, the staff and some extended members of caac, and I was asked to share a brief homily

as part of that prayer service, and a person called me afterwards and thought it would be good

to send it out on the Turning to Mystics podcast today on Good Friday.

So, I'll do that if that's a great idea.

It just takes around 10 minutes.

And at the end of the service, what I'll do of the homily, I'll invite us to sit straight,

we'll ring the bell once, and we'll bow, and just sit together in silence just for a couple

minutes, and then I'll ring the bell again, and we'll bow, and that'll be the end.

So this is a brief kind of contemplative homily.

And the text is the Gospel of Matthew, one of the Jesus' words from the cross, my God,

my God, why has offered sacred me?

So, in the prayer service today, there was a liturgy of lamentation in which it was changed

to our God, our God, why have you forsaken us?

Why do you leave us forsaken?

And so I'd like to explore that.

So, I'll begin by saying that Jesus, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

That He's quoting Psalm 23.

And when you read Psalm 23, when you read the Psalm, the Psalm is really a prayer of hope

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