"They have pierced My hands and My feet; they have numbered all My bones."

Good Friday is the day that marks when Jesus Christ was crucified on the cross for Christians’ salvation at Calvary. This holy day is celebrated on the Friday before Easter or Pascha. Special prayer services are held on this day with regarding from the Gospel accounts of the events leading up to the crucifixion. At the same time, the whole church mourns the death of Jesus. Nonetheless, this day is a day of fast and abstinence. Catholics are also supposed to meditate and pray between the hours of noon to three o’clock in the afternoon. These are the hours Jesus hung on the cross. Mainstream Christian churches view Christ’s crucifixion as a voluntary and vicarious act, and one by which, along with his resurrection on the third day, death itself was conquered.

Why It’s called Good Friday? – because on this day Jesus was crucified for Christians’ redemptions of their sins. orld: "Holy Friday" for Latin nations, Slavs and Hungarians call it "Great Friday," in Germany it is "Friday of Mourning," and in Norway, it is "Long Friday." Some view the term "Good Friday" (used in English and Dutch) as a corruption of the term "God's Friday."

Good Friday is also the only day that there isn't a full Mass. Catholic Churches have Good Friday service.

Jesus’ possible death date

Using the data in the Gospels and other sources to calculate the date of Christ's death is not a simple matter.

It is believed by many to have occurred on a Friday evening in April. It would seem that there was a coincidence: at that time the constellation of Southern Cross was entirely visible low in the South from Jerusalem. Due to precession this is no longer the case. The most probable date is 3 April AD 33. A partial lunar eclipse also took place on this date.

Catholic and Orthodox Christians treat this day as a fast day. Orthodox Christians spend all this day in fasting from all food, to the extent that their health permits. Catholics also refrain from more than one normal meal, though they may add up to two small meals as required for good health. The Book of Common Prayer designates Good Friday as a day of fasting, but the contemporary worship books make no such reference. As Good Friday is the most holy day in Holy Week, most Catholics do not eat meat.

This day is also the only day that the Divine Liturgy or Mass is not celebrated in those churches. Latin Catholics of the Roman Rite, however, can still receive the Eucharist consecrated the previous day at the Holy Thursday (or Maundy Thursday) Mass.

The earliest possible date for Good Friday is March 20 and the latest possible date is April 23 in Western Christianity and May 3 in Eastern Christianity.

Lets pray...

* Prayer Before A Crucifix *

Behold, O kind and most sweet Jesus,
I cast myself upon my knees in Thy sight,
and with the most fervent desire of my soul
I pray and beseech Thee that Thou wouldst impress upon my heart
lively sentiments of faith, hope and charity,
with true contrition for my sins, and a firm purpose of amendment,
while with deep affection and and grief of soul
I ponder within myself and mentally contemplate Thy five Wounds,
having before my eyes that which David, thr prophet, spoke of Thee, my Jesus:
"They have pierced My hands and My feet; they have numbered all My bones."

Our Father
Hail Mary
Glory Be
for the Holy Father's intentions