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	Good Friday - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Catholic Good Friday in the Roman Rite afternoon service involves a series of readings and meditations, as well as the (sung) reading of the Passion account from the Gospel of John which is often read dramatically, with the priest, one or more readers, and the congregation all taking part.
		After three o'clock in the afternoon of Good Friday (the time at which Jesus is traditionally believed to have died), noise is discouraged, radio stations and television stations sign off, businesses automatically close, and the faithful are urged to keep a solemn and prayerful disposition through Easter Sunday.
		Good Friday experiment, a test conducted on Good Friday, 1962, at Boston University's Marsh Chapel by Walter Pahnke on a number of divinity students, to determine the usefulness of psilocybin for facilitating mystical experience.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Good_Friday (2047 words)

	Good Friday - MSN Encarta
		The name “Good Friday” is generally believed to be a corruption of “God’s Friday”.
		From the 16th century onward, the Good Friday service took place in the morning; in 1955 Pope Pius XII decreed that it be held in the afternoon or evening.
		Good Friday is a legal holiday in many Christian countries.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761554635/Good_Friday.html (124 words)

	Good Friday 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Good Friday is the Friday before Easter, and is the day when Christians commemorate the suffering and death of Jesus.
		Good Friday is a Bank Holiday in the UK and is observed in the Catholic Church as a Day of Fasting and Abstinence.
		Good Friday is a day when we focus on the love Jesus has shown us by accepting death on the cross; we are sorrowful as we remember his death but we are joyfully confident in the sure knowledge of the Resurrection and the triumph of life over death.
	www.rcdhn.org.uk /lent06/goodfriday06.htm (329 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Good Friday
		From the earliest times the Christians kept every Friday as a feast day; and the obvious reasons for those usages explain why Easter is the Sunday par excellence, and why the Friday which marks the anniversary of Christ's death came to be called the Great or the Holy or the Good Friday.
		It is curious to note in these very old Good Friday prayers that the second part is omitted in the prayers for the Jews, owing, it is said, to their having insulted Christ by bending the knee in mockery before Him.
		These prayers were not peculiar to Good Friday in the early ages (they were said on Spy Wednesday as late as the eighth century); their retention here, it is thought, was inspired by the idea that the Church should pray for all classes of men on the day that Christ died for all.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06643a.htm (2253 words)

	The Days of Holy Week
		This, like the darkness often incorporated into a Good Friday service, represents the humiliation of Jesus and the consequences of sin as a preparation for the celebration of new life and hope that is to come on Resurrection Day.
		Good Friday is not a day of celebration but of mourning, both for the death of Jesus and for the sins of the world that his death represents.
		While Good Friday is a traditional day of fasting, some also fast on Saturday as the climax of the season of Lent.
	www.cresourcei.org /cyholyweek.html (2720 words)

	Good Friday: All About Good Friday
		Good Friday is the Friday of Holy Week, and commemorates the crucifixion and death of Jesus.
		Good Friday, the Friday within Holy Week, is traditionally a time of fasting and penance, commemorating the anniversary of Christ's crucifixion and death.
		The celebration of Good Friday is ancient, and some of the practices associated with Good Friday are attested to by Egeria in the 4th century.
	www.churchyear.net /goodfriday.html (1182 words)

	Good Friday in Great Britain
		Good Friday marks the arrest, trial, crucifixion, death and burial of Jesus Christ.
		Good Friday is the Friday before Easter Sunday.
		The date of the first Good Friday will never be known, but many scholars believe that the event took place on April 7th, A.D. If they are right the calendar is wrong, by three years.
	www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk /customs/easter/goodfriday.htm (788 words)

	What's Good Friday
		Good or Holy Friday is the name ascribed to a Friday, when the Savior of this world, Jesus Christ, was crucified, decried of treason by the Romans.
		It is on this Friday that Christ suffered for the well-being of mankind and spread his ubiquitous 'goodness' over this world.
		May be that is one reason why this Friday is called Good Friday.
	www.123greetings.com /events/good_friday/info/goodfriday.html (221 words)

	Good Friday \| Good Friday Origins and History
		Good Friday commemorates the crucifixion of Jesus and falls on the last Friday before Easter.
		The second possibility is a variation on the name "God's Friday," where the word "good" was used to replace the word "God," which was often viewed as too holy for commoners to speak.
		Good Friday rituals and traditions are distinct from those of all other Church observances and add to Good Friday's considerable significance.
	www.faithclipart.com /guide/Christian-Holidays/good-friday-significance.html (577 words)

	Good Friday
		Ever since I was a child, Good Friday meant dragging myself out of bed on a school holiday to attend a three hour church service at the end of which we would get hot cross buns and 'kanji' or rice water.
		The Friday before Easter, known as Good Friday, is observed as a day of fasting and penance every year in memory of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
		Good Friday services are aimed at allowing worshippers to experience some sense of the pain and humiliation that Christ experienced on this day so many centuries ago and the service ends in the journey to the cross.
	www.indiaparenting.com /indianculture/festivals/fest010.shtml (713 words)

	Ruchis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Good Friday commemorates the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
		Jesus died after three hours on the Jesus is believed to have died on the cross at 3 o'clock in the afternoon Good Friday.
		The rituals for Good Friday commence on the preceding Thursday.
	www.ruchiskitchen.com /festivals/friday.htm (581 words)

	The Good Friday—Easter Sunday Question > The Good News : March/April 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Second, even though Good Friday is generally observed as the traditional day of His crucifixion, Christ Himself told the disciples that He would be in the grave for all of three days and three nights.
		Friday morning from 9 to noon was counted as the first day, and noon to 3 p.m.
		The women rested on that day, then on Friday purchased and prepared the spices and oils for Jesus' body, which could not be done on either the Holy Day or the weekly Sabbath.
	www.gnmagazine.org /issues/gn27/fridayeaster.htm (2348 words)

	Good Friday
		Good Friday, Passion of Christ, Commemoration of the, Passion of Jesus Christ, Passion of Jesus Christ in the Four Gospels from the Catholic Encyclopedia.
		Good Friday liturgy from The Church of England in An Anglican Liturgical Library.
		The Triduum: Good Friday Rev. Thomas L. Weitzel, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
	www.textweek.com /festivals/friday.htm (1519 words)

	Fast from Shelter, Good Friday 1999
		On Good Friday, the staff of Good Works, former and current residents and members of the community participated in our annual Fast From Shelter.
		We felt that the darkness associated with Jesus' death is something to reflect on in relationship to the poor and oppressed.
		Good Friday 1999 had a completely different meaning for me. I participated in the Fast From Shelter that Good Works Inc. has yearly.
	www.good-works.net /fastfrom.htm (1795 words)

	Good Friday Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Although "Death on a Friday Afternoon" is far too complex and nuanced to be summarized succinctly, one of its objectives (which it fulfills admirably) is to look its reader directly in the face and ask, "Are you in fact living your life in a way that justifies the sacrifice that Jesus made to save it?"
		Leech expresses disdain for figures like Billy Graham, for no good reason that this reader can see (Graham has mellowed over the years); and we learn further that to be a member of the Conservative Party is, in Leech's view, to be a sinner that is beyond the pale of forgiveness.
		"Murder On A Good Friday" by Sara Conway is a well researched and well written mystery set in the small northern town of Hexham, and features the detecting skills of the bailiff of Hexham, Lord Goodwin, and his cousin by marriage, Lady Constance of Broadweal Manor.
	www.holiday-book-reviews.com /Good_Friday (3234 words)

	Good Friday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		There are few explanations as to why the holiday is known as "Good" Friday since it commemorates a sorrowful time in Christianity.
		Some scholars believe that "good" is a corruption of the word "God's" while others speculate that "good" was used to denote "holy".
		Good Friday: The Death and Burial of Jesus Christ - The Christian Broadcasting Network
	www.calendar-updates.com /holidays/us/goodfriday.htm (260 words)

	Good Friday - Its Background and Customs
		Good Friday, the Friday of Holy Week in the calendar of the Christian churches, is set apart to commemorate the crucifixion of Jesus.
		It reflects the joy of completed redemption and protests against superstitious notions that all Fridays are “unlucky” and that this particular Friday must be shrouded in funeral gloom.
		The Tre Ore Services are usually composed of a Good Friday Litany, the reading of the Passion according to St. John, sermons on the Passion or the Seven Last Words of Jesus on the Cross, and the Bidding Prayer.
	www.historictrinity.org /goodfriday.html (921 words)

	Good Friday? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It was a holiday and we either had just a half-day of school or the entire day off, because, they said, Good Friday (Great Friday to the Greek Orthodox; Charfreitag or Sorrowful Friday in German) was the day of the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ.
		"Good Friday" was an evolution out of the early Pascha celebrations that took place at Jerusalem that I mentioned earlier.
		The second reason I reject the "Good Friday" view of the death of Christ is because of what Christ said in Matthew 12:40.
	logosresourcepages.org /Holidays/good_friday.htm (2453 words)

	Czech Easter - Good Friday
		Good Friday was always regarded by the Roman Catholic Church as the day of greatest grief in the Church.
		Good Friday has always inspired folk poetry and has been the subject of many romantic superstitions.
		According to an old Czech saying, for example, farming should not be done on Good Friday.
	www.myczechrepublic.com /czech_culture/czech_holidays/easter/good_friday.html (747 words)

	Christian Traditions: Good Friday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		That is, the Bible never says: "Jesus died on Friday afternoon." Instead, we have clues that we can use to determine the best possible timeline for the week of his death.
		This is the common tradition, resulting in Good Friday, the day Jesus' death is commemorated.
		Given that we know Jesus was resurrected by early Sunday morning, and in the grave for three days and three nights, then counting backwards we would conclude that he was crucified and buried on Thursday or Wednesday afternoon, depending upon whether we counted the last day/night as a full or partial day/night.
	www.thefourwheelers.com /Main/Musings/goodfriday.htm (983 words)

	Holy Week
		Good Friday, the second day of the Triduum, is the solemn remembrance of Jesus' death on the cross.
		The English designation of "Good Friday" is a corruption of "God's Friday," although the term is a very fitting one since the Lord's death was for our eternal good.
		Good Friday worship is marked by austerity and silence.
	www.stpaulskingsville.org /holyweek.htm (2230 words)

	Good Friday
		Good Friday is a special day celebrated by Christians on the Friday before Easter or Pascha.
		A "good tide" is, for example, Christmas or Shrove Tuesday.
		Catholic Good Friday services include readings from Scripture, including a reading of the Passion account from the gospel of John, which is often read dramatically, with the priest, one or more readers, and the congregation all taking part.
	www.bigdates.com /holidays/goodfriday.asp (732 words)

	How to Observe Good Friday - eHow.com
		Many churches reenact the Passion of Christ on Good Friday, traditionally held in mid-afternoon at Catholic churches, although some churches have moved it to later in the day to enable more people to attend.
		Consider attending the Stations of the Cross (a Catholic tradition) at the Good Friday service, where paintings and banners are used to represent scenes depicting the end of Jesus's life, from his betrayal to his death.
		Good Friday, like all Fridays during Lent, is a day of abstinence from meat for Catholics, and it is also a day of fast, done in honor of Christ's own 40-day fast in the desert.
	www.ehow.com /how_12838_observe-friday.html (1483 words)

	Annie's Good Friday Page
		is the Sunday par excellence, and why the Friday which marks the anniversary of Christ's death came to be called the Great or the Holy or the Good Friday.
		Good Friday, the Friday before Easter; observed in churches as the anniversary of the crucifixion of Christ; legal holiday in some states of the U.S..
		"Good Friday is normally a school holiday, and often the adults are off work as well.
	www.annieshomepage.com /goodfriday.html (975 words)

	Why is it called Good Friday?
		But I think we call it Good Friday because, in pious retrospect, all that tragedy brought about the greatest good there could be.
		If we call it Mourning Friday, as in German, we are facing reality head on, taking up the cross if you will, fully conscious that the Christian walk is seldom a walk in the park.
		But if we call it Good Friday, as in English, we are confessing the Christian hope that no tragedy—not even death—can overwhelm God’s providence, love, and grace.
	www.kencollins.com /question-11.htm (262 words)

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