Good Friday and the Work of Redemption

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The liturgy is supposed to embody the Truths of the Catholic Faith.

The Truth is that Our Lord Jesus Christ IS the Messia, He came and fulfilled the prophecies and He is the rise and fall of many Luke 2:34.

Vulgate: 34 Et benedixit illis Simeon, et dixit ad Mariam matrem ejus: Ecce positus est hic in ruinam et in resurrectionem multorum in Israël, et in signum cui contradicetur:
Douay / Rheims: 34 And Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary his mother: Behold this child is set for the fall, and for the resurrection of many in Israel, and for a sign which shall be contradicted;
Knox: 34 when Simeon blessed them, and said to his mother Mary, Behold, this child is destined to bring about the fall of many and the rise of many in Israel; to be a sign which men will refuse to acknowledge;
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Ver. 34. Is set for the ruin.

Christ came for the redemption and salvation of all men:
but Simeon prophesies what would happen in consequence of the wilful blindness and obstinacy of many.
(Witham) --- Not that God sent his Son for the fall of any man; but that many, by their own perverseness, in wilfully refusing to receive and obey him, would take occasion of falling.
(Challoner) --- And for a sign which shall be contradicted, to signify that Christ, and his doctrine, should be as it were a mark, or butt, against whom the Jews should discharge the arrows and darts of their malice.
(Witham) --- Hence St. Paul, (2 Corinthians ii. 16.) We are to one the odour of death unto death, but to the other the odour of life unto life.
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