Good Friday is not just a day of mourning.
It’s a day for truth-telling.
And the truth is this:
Jesus was executed by an empire afraid of Love —
not sentimental love, but bold, liberating, earth-rooted Love
that exposes systems of power and invites real transformation.
Jesus was stripped by more than soldiers.
He was handed over by religion allied with empire,
by politics clinging to order, by economies built on fear.
He disrupted the marketplace, declared jubilee,
called for land to be restored and people set free.
That was then — but it’s also now.
The machinery of domination still rolls on:
displacing people, desecrating Earth,
and silencing truth in the name of profit and control.
But Jesus didn’t flinch.
He stood with the poor, the silenced, the excluded — and called it holy.
He didn’t glorify suffering — he revealed it,
and invited us into a different way.
At the Puriri Centre, we mark Good Friday
not to sentimentalise the cross,
but to confront the systems that still crucify love,
and to commit ourselves to the sacred work of healing.
The bowl breaks.
The fragments remain.
But in the sharp edges of our world and our lives,
truth shines,
and Love — quietly, persistently — begins to mend what was broken.
This is sacred resistance.
This is holy ground.
And though the tomb is sealed,
Love is already on the move.
Come, walk with us toward resurrection.