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How To Observe The First Friday Devotion On Good Friday...

YOUR PASSION
"You must meditate more on the Passion. Why, My children? Because you, too, as followers of Mine, shall go through your passion upon earth.... Time shall bear out this message." - Jesus, November 1, 1977

THE AGONY IN THE GARDEN
I saw Jesus on His knees, bent over in anguish, praying.... There was a great sadness in His face, great sorrow. He was talking to His Father in Heaven: "Father, I will drink of this cup, down to the last dreg, if it be Your will. It is not I that should seek that this cup be removed from Me. My strength is everlasting in the light, and My heart a bleeding vessel for this cup." -Veronica, March 8, 1971

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CatholicVote.org reported on March 30, 2026:

By McKenna Snow

This April, the first Friday of the month happens to also be Good Friday — the one day of the year when the Church does not celebrate Holy Mass. For those who observe the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus every first Friday of the month, this coincidence does not pose an obstacle to fulfilling the devotion’s obligations. 

The First Friday devotion has roots in the private revelations given to Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, a nun who lived in the 17th century. 

As CatholicVote previously reported, the nun related that Jesus showed her His Heart “on fire with love, pierced, bleeding, and crowned with thorns” and said, “Behold this Heart which has so loved men that It spared nothing, even going so far as to exhaust and consume Itself, to prove to them Its love; and in return I receive from the greater part only ingratitude.”

In speaking to Sister Margaret Mary, Jesus also asked for the faithful to make pious acts of love and reparation, particularly through receiving Holy Communion on the first Friday of every month. As CatholicVote noted, Christ promised an abundance of spiritual fruits for those who observe this devotion and their families. 

Over time, a formal structure developed for observing this special devotion to console the Sacred Heart of Christ. 

In January, CatholicVote published a basic guide based on the Vatican’s Directory on Popular Piety and the Liturgy (paragraphs 171–173) and Pope Francis’ encyclical Dilexit nos that outlined the main requirements of this devotion: Receive the Eucharist; offer the reception of the Eucharist in a spirit of reparation; do so for nine consecutive months, and engage in additional prayerful acts such as Eucharistic adoration or the litany to the Sacred Heart. 

Ordinarily, the faithful will attend Mass on the first Friday of the month to receive the Eucharist for the devotion. However, it is still possible to fulfill the First Friday requirements on Good Friday, as many churches still allow the reception of Holy Communion during the Celebration of the Lord’s Passion. 

Though no hosts are consecrated on Good Friday, one’s local church may offer reception of Holy Communion with consecrated hosts reserved from the Holy Thursday’s Mass of the Lord’s Supper. 

“The stipulation for fulfilling the First Friday devotion is to receive the Eucharist but not specifically go to Mass — a provision that enables the faithful to continue this devotion in the rare instance that Good Friday falls on the first week of the month,” CatholicVote wrote. 

As the Church continues through Holy Week, contemplating and consoling the Sacred Heart of Jesus becomes an especially worthwhile endeavor. 

In Dilexit nos, Pope Francis wrote that the faithful understand “that the passion of Christ is not merely an event of the past, but one in which we can share through faith. Meditation on Christ’s self-offering on the cross involves, for Christian piety, something much more than mere remembrance.”

He later wrote that through grace, the resurrected Christ “mysteriously unites us to his passion. The hearts of the faithful, who experience the joy of the resurrection, yet at the same time desire to share in the Lord’s passion, understand this.” 

“They desire to share in his sufferings by offering him the sufferings, the struggles, the disappointments and the fears that are part of their own lives,” he continued. “Nor do they experience this as isolated individuals, since their sufferings are also a participation in the suffering of the mystical Body of Christ, the holy pilgrim People of God, which shares in the passion of Christ in every time and place. The devotion of consolation, then, is in no way ahistorical or abstract; it becomes flesh and blood in the Church’s pilgrimage through history.”

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"The judgment of your God is not akin to the judgment of man. The Eternal Father will only judge by the heart. Your rank, your accumulation of worldly goods does not set you up before another. Many have sold their souls within the holy House of God. Better that you strip yourself and remove all worldly interests now while you have the time to make amends to your God, for many mitres will fall into hell." - St. Thomas Aquinas, August 21, 1972

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