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	Good Friday - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		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.
		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 (1219 words)

	MSN Encarta - Good Friday
		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)

	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 (2274 words)

	GOOD FRIDAY
		Originally known as 'God's Friday', the present expression is believed to have emerged during the 10th or 11th century.
		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 A cross, symbolic of the one on which Jesus was crucified, is unveiled in many churches cross.
		The rituals for Good Friday commence on the preceding Thursday.
	tdil.mit.gov.in /GOOD_FRIDAY.htm (623 words)

	Learn more about Good Friday in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Good Friday is a special day celebrated by Christians on the Friday before Easter or Pascha.
		Special prayer services are often held on this day with readings from the Gospel accounts of the events leading up to the crucifixion.
		It is the one day of the year they are forbidden from celebrating the Divine Liturgy, thereby fasting from the Eucharist as well.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /g/go/good_friday.html (625 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 (1046 words)

	St. Elizabeth's-Ridgewood Lent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The liturgy concludes with the reading of the account of the Last Supper and the arrest of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, the stripping of the altar, and the gradual darkening of the church in preparation for Good Friday.
		Good Friday (March 25): Good Friday Liturgy at 12:00 noon; Vigil from 12:30 to 1:30; Family Service from 1:30 to 2:00; Vigil from 2:00 to 2:30; Good Friday Liturgy from 2:30 to 3:00 pm.
		The Good Friday Liturgy with the reading of the Passion Gospel from Luke will also be offered at 7:30 pm.
	www.stesridgewood.org /lent.htm (644 words)

	Good Friday, Great Friday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		From the 16th century on, the Good Friday service took place in the morning; in 1955 Pope Pius XII decreed that it be held in the afternoon or evening.
		As a result, such traditional afternoon devotions as the Tre Ore (Italian, "three hours"), consisting of sermons, meditations, and prayers centering on the three-hour agony of Christ on the cross, were almost entirely discontinued in the Roman Catholic church.
		In most of Europe, in South America, in the United Kingdom and many parts of the Commonwealth, and in several states of the U.S., Good Friday is a legal holiday.
	mb-soft.com /believe/txw/goodfrid.htm (309 words)

	:: St George's Basilica - Gozo, Malta ::
		The liturgy starts with the presiding priest accompanied by the Chapter and clergy, processing to the altar in silence and, flanked by his assistants, prostrating himself for a few moments in silent prayer.
		This second part of the liturgy starts with the veiled Cross being carried by a priest, wearing choral habit with stole, processing solemnly from the sacristy to the to main altar.
		The Good Friday liturgy is brought to an end by two payers, the prayer "After Communion" and then the prayer "Over the people" that the celebrant will recite with his arms extended over the congregation.
	www.stgeorge.org.mt /news_details.asp?NewsID=68 (1051 words)

	Easter church services (March 27, 2002)
		Good Friday liturgy and stations of the cross, noon to 3 p.m.
		On Good Friday, March 29, the church will be open for private prayer noon to 3 p.m.
		Stations of the cross noon Good Friday with liturgy and holy communion at 2 p.m.
	www.almanacnews.com /morgue/2002/2002_03_27.easter.html (459 words)

	Easter Services (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Good Friday, April 9: 12 Noon Requiem by Gabriel Fauré Sung by the Parish Choir of Christ Church, Detroit, with the Michigan Sinfonietta Orchestra.
		Good Friday, April 9: 12:00 Noon Good Friday Liturgy; 7:00 p.m.
		Good Friday Evensong, followed by "The German Requiem" by Johannes Brahms, Christ Church Chorale and orchestra.
	www.edomi.org /easter.asp (664 words)

	Homily \| Good Friday Liturgy
		Stephen Privett, S.J., was invited by Bishop William Swing of the Episcopal Diocese of California and Dean Alan Jones of Grace Cathedral to deliver the homily at the Good Friday liturgy.
		In the context of today’s liturgy, the suffering servant alludes to Jesus.
		This is why Friday is "Good." God has been and remains in our darkest places, even in the places where we are sure God is absent.
	www.usfca.edu /president/homilies/gf_homily.html (1208 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 (1260 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Area churches plan Easter services (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Friday, April 9, 12:30 p.m., Stations of the Cross-Bilingual, 2 p.m., Stations of the Cross, 5 p.m., Solemn Liturgy (English), 7 p.m., Solemn Liturgy (Spanish).
		Friday, April 9, 1:30 p.m., Sacrament of Reconciliation in the Church, 2:30, Stations of the Cross in the Church, 7 p.m., Good Friday Liturgy.
		Friday, April 9, Noon, Station of the Cross, 1-2 p.m., Sacrament of Reconciliation, 6:30 p.m., Liturgy of the Lord's Passion.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/1,1249,595053102,00.html (4187 words)

	Ideas for Holy Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The liturgy best ends without a closing hymn and with a quiet postlude, thus emphasizing the entry into the quiet contemplation of this holy week.
		While the Liturgy for the day focuses on the Last Supper of Jesus and the love he expressed there, there is a small "suggestion" in the rubrics of the liturgy that is quite powerful and too often passed over.
		The LBW rite does not call for any words to be spoken during the footwashing, although it has certainly seemed to me that something should be said, both to each person who foot is/feet are washed (your option) as well as to the congregation at the conclusion of the ceremony.
	www.members.aol.com /LiturgybyTLW1/Seasonal/Lent/HolyWeek.html (1797 words)

	Local News
		Good Friday is commemorated by Christians as the day Jesus was crucified, only to be raised from the grave in a victory over death that is celebrated on Easter or “Resurrection Sunday.”
		The Good Friday Liturgy will begin at noon at the Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest, 602 Meander.
		A Good Friday service of music and drama will be held at 7 p.m.
	www.texnews.com /1998/2000/local/today0421.html (704 words)

	Triddum: Good Friday
		Good Friday is the second day of the Triduum, the "Three Sacred Days" of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday with its Vigil of Easter.
		The Good Friday Liturgy is marked with austerity, silence and reflection.
		The liturgy does not end on this note of reproach, however.
	members.aol.com /LiturgybyTLW1/Seasonal/Lent/GoodFri.html (932 words)

	Holy Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		There are no Masses on Good Friday, because we're remembering the bloody sacrifice that's the foundation of the unbloody one.
		Before sunrise on Good Friday the narrative of Jesus’ trial before Pilate was read at the Sanctuary of the Cross; this was followed by a gathering for prayer at the column where Jesus was scourged.
		The present afternoon liturgy on Good Friday is entitled the "Celebration of the Lord’s Passion," which term derives from the early Christian understanding that the liturgy this day was in passione Domini ("the passion of the Lord"), with the understanding that passio included both suffering and redemptive death.
	www.osv.com /Enewsletter/newsletter041603.htm (2510 words)

	Christian History Corner: The Goodness of Good Friday - Christianity Today Magazine
		In the midst of consumerism's Western playground, Good Friday calls to a jarring halt the sacred "pursuit of happiness." The cross reveals this pursuit for what it is: a secondary thing.
		In the Catholic Good Friday Mass, the altar is stripped of all adornments, and worshipers venerate the cross by kissing a crucifix.
		Some Western churches still celebrate a medieval liturgy called the Tenebrae, or Service of Darkness, in which candles and lights are gradually extinguished until the congregation sits in complete darkness—a representation of the darkness that covered the earth at the death of Jesus (Mark 15:33).
	www.christianitytoday.com /ct/2003/115/44.0.html (1387 words)

	GOOD FRIDAY April 13 issue (apr13.htm)
		This day of Good Friday we pass on much of the ceremony and venerate the Cross in recalling and meditating on the Passion and Death of Our Lord.
		On Good Friday in 2000, the Holy Father led the Via Crucis meditations with his own words while leading the faithful on the traditional Papal Way of the Cross.
		Today, because it is Good Friday we feature the heart of the Way of the Cross: the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth Stations.
	www.dailycatholic.org /issue/2001Apr/apr13.htm (1249 words)

	St. Columba’s Worship \| Services — Good Friday Liturgy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		We mark the three hours of the crucifixion with the Good Friday Liturgy including readings, hymns, prayers and anthems by the St. Columba Singers Ensemble, interspersed with silence for reflection.
		The Passion according to St. John is read in three sections, each followed by a brief reflection this year (2004) by associate rector Steve Huber.
		The service is designed so that people can come and go as they need, and concludes with prayers and the tolling of the bell at 3 pm.
	www.columba.org /Worship/Services/goodfriday.html (97 words)

	Seabury-Western Theological Seminary
		Adam, Seabury’s professor of New Testament and Early Church History, preached the Good Friday homily.
		Good Friday doesn’t want for a liturgy; we supply an ample Good Friday liturgy with disingenuous litanies of self-justification, with partisan anathemas and behind-the-hand ridicule, building community on the brittle foundation of spite directed at those others.
		Good Friday doesn’t want a proper liturgy; whatever we do this afternoon will not be enough, will not make anything right.
	www.seabury.edu /mt/archives/2005/04/seabury_sermons_1.html (647 words)

	Off the Top of My Head... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		But in many ways, the high point of the Good Friday liturgy for me is the veneration of the cross.
		In contrast, here on Good Friday evening, there was a large, bare cross standing in the sanctuary.
		Since Good Friday is part of Easter (the Easter Triduum, or Three Days), it's about the Risen Christ.
	www.ologn.org /view_oth.asp?id=43 (567 words)

	Catholic Culture : Liturgical Year : March 25, 2005 : Good Friday
		The service is divided into three parts: liturgy of the word, veneration of the cross and holy communion.
		The liturgy starts with the priests and deacons going to the altar in silence and prostrating themselves for a few moments in silent prayer, then an introductory prayer is prayed.
		In part one, the Liturgy of the Word, we hear the most famous of the Suffering Servant passages from Isaiah (52:13-53:12), a pre-figurement of Christ on Good Friday.
	www.catholicculture.org /lit/calendar/day.cfm?date=2005-03-25 (824 words)

	Holy Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		At 7:00 we proceed into the Church for one of the most dramatic liturgies of the year, including the enacted parable of foot washing, the commemoration of the institution of the Lord’s Supper, and the stripping of the Altar in preparation for the starkness of Good Friday.
		The Good Friday Liturgy begins at noon and is followed by a series of 14 meditations (some verbal, some musical) based on the stations of the cross.
		Containing some of the oldest and most cherished elements of Christian liturgy, this service begins outside with the lighting of the new fire and the singing of the Exsultet.
	www.goodshepherdaustin.org /Lenten_opps.htm (357 words)

	AKMA’s Random Thoughts
		The Good Friday service has come and gone, and I’ll post the sermon — as usual — in the extended section below.
		It was a privilege to serve at this occasion with Carolyn Keck and especially with Tony Lewis, with whom I share a certain vocational ancestry as we both studied at Yale (he in the doctoral program, I in the Masters), and served on the staff of Christ Church.
		Good Friday reminds us – if we will permit it – that our creativity, our piety, profundity, our very best intentions and most generous gifts often become the most intractable obstacles to our conversion.
	akma.disseminary.org /archives/2005/03/done.html (997 words)

	Holy Week at Holy Apostles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		After Mass, the Blessed Sacrament is carried to the Altar of Repose where watch is kept until the Good Friday Liturgy.
		The Good Friday Liturgy is unique in character, recalling the earliest days of the Church.
		Good Friday is observed by the Church as a day of strict fasting.
	www.fwepiscopal.org /hapostles/info/holyweek.html (672 words)

	Good Friday communion? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		In the Liturgy on Good Friday, they didn't used to have communion, only the Stations of the Cross at noon.
		Your parish may have not done what has been part of the tradition for communion to be distributed during the Liturgy of the Lord's Passion on Good Friday.
		The Liturgy of the Lord's Passion includes three rites: the Liturgy of the Word [with the reading of the Passion from the Gospel of John], Veneration of the Cross, and Rite of Communion.
	www.blessedsacrament.com /theology/q34.html (293 words)

	Visions From The Cross (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		PREPARATION FOR GOOD FRIDAY LITURGY: Print a list of the names of the persons involved in this activity on a roll of adding machine tape and the number of hours that have been donated.
		PREPARATION FOR GOOD FRIDAY LITURGY: Offer the names of those that have given gifts to the homeless by pinning their names on a blanket or gift bag.
		PREPARATION FOR GOOD FRIDAY LITURGY: Place the letters written by your group in a basket to be placed at the cross.
	www.simpleliving.org /Archives/XRisen/CrossVisions.html (2060 words)

	Religion Calendar
		Good Friday "Carry the Cross for Christ" walk at 11 a.m., from Thomas Square to Central Union Church, followed by the annual Citywide Ecumenical Worship Service at noon and a "Sanctuary" performance.
		Liturgy of the Palms and Passion will be held 7, 8 and 10 a.m.
		Good Friday also has "Watch in the Garden," 7 a.m.-noon; "What's So Good About Good Friday?" 9 a.m.-noon in the Von Holt Room; liturgy, noon; labyrinth, 1-5 p.m.
	starbulletin.com /1999/03/27/news/religion.html (1154 words)

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