From noon to 3pm on Good Friday, what will you be doing?

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I have taken off Good Friday as a personal holiday, over the years, and my kids and I (and dh if not working) have often prayed together during this time of Jesus dying on the cross, or have just kept silent during that time…doing something else. I have also watched Passion of the Christ and prayed the Chaplet afterwards. I was just curious as to what some of you do, for your Good Friday ‘traditions?’
 
I will be doing a right to life walk (7 miles) then mass.
 
JPUSC said:
  1. Trying to see if the alleged warning supposedly occuring on this day is even going to happen. (hey, it’s better to be safe than sorry :D).
  2. Cantoring.
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i guess i am uninformed - to which warning are you referring if i may ask?
 
7_Sorrows said:
i guess i am uninformed - to which warning are you referring if i may ask?
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There’s this guy on catholicplanet.com/ who received a lot of attention when he predicted that Pope Benedict XVI was the next pope. Though some of the material on his website is a little iffy, he does predict that the warning of Garabandal/Medjugorje might occur on Good Friday, 2009.

I don’t know if I totally buy the whole thing, but it can’t hurt to see if anything actually happens.
 
Stations of the Cross at noon. Either at my home parish or the Cathedral downtown.
Celebration of the Lord’s Passion at 3pm. Again, at my parish or the Cathedral. I prefer the Cathedral but if it is a nice day weatherwise, one basically has to stay in one’s seat after the Stations are finished or risk standing outside during the Mass. It is that jam packed! Of course, since Good Friday is a holiday in Canada, there is no excuse for the churches not to be packed. And in my experience they always have been.
 
I have to work. But I have found podcasts of the Rosary’s & Liturgy of the Hours (that I use while I am learning how to use my book). I plan on having my headphones on at work as much as possible.

Lori
 
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on Good Friday i plan to be meditating on the stations of the cross and attending whatever event they have at church that day. i will spend much of the day meditating and reflecting.
 
On Holy Thursday, I go and visit seven churches. The first church is my parish. After the procession, I will stay and pray and then go and visit six other parishes to pray. I really enjoy this and I have gone solo, with a friend or with a group. This is a beautiful tradition.

On Friday, I plan on going to the local monastery from about noon to three. At seven, I will go to my parish for our Good Friday service.

When my friend was the rector of our Cathedral, we used to have a procession not unlike that which happened in Toledo, Spain. Three statues are carried in procession. The first one is that of Jesus carrying his cross. A man walks in front, in period dress, beating a drum while someone else walks behind him carrying the death sentence. The procession circled the plaza once. On the second go-around, at a designated spot, the procession stops in front of a bier carrying a statue of the Sorrowful Mother. Mother and Son meet. The biers bow to one another. The bier bearing the Sorrowful Mother follows Jesus. Then, towards the end of the second pass, the procession stops and Jesus meets the third bier bearing the statue of St. Veronica. Her bier bows to him. Then, all three biers are carried into the Cathedral and are arranged in the sanctuary. Then, we get ready for the Good Friday service and there is silence. Unfortunately, when my friend was moved, all of that died out. 😦

I am hoping that the new administrator will resume this beautiful custom.
 
** I will be doing a right to life walk (7 miles) then mass.**

There is no mass on Good Friday.

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I remember one Good Friday back when I use to drive a truck for a living and I was unloading in Albany, NY. I was sitting in the breakroom drinking a cup of coffee while the local delivery drivers were getting their instructions from the foreman and the foreman ended his talk by giving the drivers a reminder:
“Remember, find you someplace to park between Noon and 3 today. No one will be open.”
At first this puzzled me then I realize that the stores closed from noon to 3 on Good Fridays, so therefore no one would be able to do their deliveries. I thought to myself, " That is so nice". The stores were I’m from consider a “Good Friday” to be one where the sales are up.:ouch:

After I left, I made sure that when noon came I had my truck parked and spent the next three hours in contemplation.🙂
 
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On Holy Thursday, I go and visit seven churches. The first church is my parish. After the procession, I will stay and pray and then go and visit six other parishes to pray. I really enjoy this and I have gone solo, with a friend or with a group. This is a beautiful tradition.

On Friday, I plan on going to the local monastery from about noon to three. At seven, I will go to my parish for our Good Friday service.

When my friend was the rector of our Cathedral, we used to have a procession not unlike that which happened in Toledo, Spain. Three statues are carried in procession. The first one is that of Jesus carrying his cross. A man walks in front, in period dress, beating a drum while someone else walks behind him carrying the death sentence. The procession circled the plaza once. On the second go-around, at a designated spot, the procession stops in front of a bier carrying a statue of the Sorrowful Mother. Mother and Son meet. The biers bow to one another. The bier bearing the Sorrowful Mother follows Jesus. Then, towards the end of the second pass, the procession stops and Jesus meets the third bier bearing the statue of St. Veronica. Her bier bows to him. Then, all three biers are carried into the Cathedral and are arranged in the sanctuary. Then, we get ready for the Good Friday service and there is silence. Unfortunately, when my friend was moved, all of that died out. 😦

I am hoping that the new administrator will resume this beautiful custom.
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what a beautiful description you gave of the procession. i hope that they will bring this procession back. it must have been a very moving and spiritual experience for you.
 
If my town is doing it this year I will be taking part in an ‘act of christian witness’ in our town centre and then I will be attending Mass.
 
There is no Mass on Good Friday, the only day of the year that happens. There is a Communion service with Hosts consecrated at Mass on Holy Thursday. Pre-VII, the Good Friday Communion service was called “The Mass of the Pre-Sanctified”. On Good Friday, my dh & I will attend the services at our parish, which include the above mentioned Communion service, stations, and Veneration of the Cross. I take Holy Thursday night & Good Friday off every year so that we can attend all the Triduum services.

Peace,
Linda
 
Right now it looks like I will be meeting with my graduate thesis committee to decide when I get to graduate. So in a sense, I’m joining with His suffering.

Chris
 
Noon services and Stations at a parish near my office . . . then back to work.
 
Everyone, your ideas are so beautiful…I hope you all have a very blessed Good Friday.

Stations of the cross, why am I forgetting that? :rolleyes:That sounds like a good idea. I don’t think they will be having that at our new parish, as our current one is too small, and we don’t have an official church yet, still being built…but, I could find one in the area that offers the stations.

I have been services over the years in PA, for the veneration of the cross, where you walk up in a line, to kiss the feet of Christ, on a large cross that the priest carries in, in silence? Anyone else do this?
 
I normally spend Good Friday with the choir for our (this year) Noon service. We have a second service at 7:00pm.

I hadn’t thought of it until now but I’m supposed to work until 1:00pm that Friday. I’ll have to see if I can go in early that day so I can leave early.
 
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