This event has already occurred
Having kept our vigil on Thursday night (as Jesus asked his followers in the Garden of Gethsemene, ‘Could you not keep watch just one hour?’), we enter into the story of the climax of Christ’s suffering. We attend the trials, we follow Jesus and the crowds to the hilltop, and we watch together as Jesus breathes his last.
Then, in silence, we reflect, each of us in our own way, on the full meaning of the Cross.