What’s Good About Good Friday
Some of them say that we're sick, or crazy, and some of them think that we're the most gorgeous special things on earth. -Venus Xtravaganza Then saith Jesus to the disciple: Behold thy mother! -John 19:27 I found Venus Xtravaganza’s grave thanks to the Catholic Church. And like the Catholic Church, their help came in the most Catholic Church way possible: play-for-pain. It was Good Friday. My service on one side of the Hudson had let out, but I had to get to Jersey to pick up my family from the airport. So I decided to make a stop on the way. Jesus died at 3 o’clock. I was in my car by 3:10. ——— I have a strong relationship to historical spaces and not just like a Civil War battlefield or Grant’s Tomb. If you tell me something amazing happened on an exact spot, I don’t care what’s there now, I have to see it. I don't care if, like the building where Chester Arthur got sworn in, it's now a grocery store. My favorite memory from visiting London many moons a...