{"id":160707,"date":"2026-04-08T19:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T19:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/160707\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T19:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T19:00:16","slug":"good-friday-celebration-of-the-passion-of-the-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/160707\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Friday: Celebration of the Passion of the Lord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By CatholicPhilly Staff \u2022 Posted April 8, 2026 <\/p>\n<p>See scenes from the Celebration of the Passion of the Lord April 3 at the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul, the Mother Church of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Archbishop Nelson J. P\u00e9rez celebrated the Mass commemorating the Holy Passion and Death of Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p>On Good Friday, the archbishop also encouraged all clergy, religious, and lay faithful in the Church of Philadelphia to pray for peace in the world, especially in the Middle East and Ukraine. (Photos by Sarah Webb)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By CatholicPhilly Staff \u2022 Posted April 8, 2026 See scenes from the Celebration of the Passion of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2387,15571,72576,72577,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-160707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-archbishop-nelson-j-perez","tag-cathedral-basilica-of-saints-peter-and-paul","tag-celebration-of-the-passion-of-the-lord","tag-holy-passion-and-death-of-jesus-christ","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}