Liturgical Year: Friday After Easter
 In Defense of the Resurrection
by Dom Gueranger, 1908

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This is the day which the Lord hath made: let us be glad and rejoice therein.

Eight days ago, we were standing near the cross, on which died the Man of Sorrows (Is. liii. 3.), abandoned by His Father, and rejected, by a solemn judgement of the ѕуηαgσgυє, as a false Messias: and lo! this is the sixth time the sun has risen upon our earth since the voice of the Angel was heard proclaiming the Resurrection of this adorable Victim. The Church, His widowed spouse, then lay prostrate before the justice of the eternal God and Father, who 'spared not even His own Son (Rom. viii, 32),' because He had taken upon Himself the likeness of sin; but now she is feasting in the sight of her Jesus' triumph, for He bids her be exceeding glad. But if within this glad Octave, there be one day, rather than another, on which she should proclaim His triumph, it assuredly is the Friday; for it was on that day she saw Him 'filled with reproaches (Lament. iii. 30)' and crucified.