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

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SMHW said:
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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yeah, you should try…I used to work on Good Friday…and now, I just plan every year, to have Ash Wed and Good Friday off…it’s been a blessing.
 
I usually take off Good Friday and go to church and attend the Good Friday service. I enjoy this season more so than Christmas because of the emphasis of our Rituals and Traditions. I think it makes me think why I am Catholic and it reinforces what the meaning of Easter truly is.
 
Sorry for the confusion I may have caused, What I attend is the Good Friday service.
 
whatevergirl said:
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?
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What you are describing is part of the Celebration of the Lord’s Passion. The Veneration of the Cross takes place after the prayers of the faithful. The Communion Rite follows after the congregation has finished venerating the Cross. Depending on the number of faithful attending, this can take a very long time. In some churches, the choir will sing hymns while the Veneration is taking place. In others, there is only silence—save for the sound of hundreds of feet moving up and down the aisles! In our Cathedral, if the day is sunny, all the lights are turned off except for one directly over the foot of the altar where the Cross has been placed. It is really beautiful with just the natural light shining through the stained glass windows. On gloomy days [which seem to be almost the norm around here on Good Friday] the lights are dimmed, not turned off. This lends a very solemn ambiance to the occassion.
 
whatevergirl said:
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?
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Yep. Our parish has two celebrations of the Lord’s Passion on Good Friday. That’s what our choir sings for.
 
Maureen_Fiore said:
I usually take off Good Friday and go to church and attend the Good Friday service. I enjoy this season more so than Christmas because of the emphasis of our Rituals and Traditions. I think it makes me think why I am Catholic and it reinforces what the meaning of Easter truly is.
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That’s a good point, I feel the same way, and have incorporated somewhat of a similiar fasting and prayer ‘ritual’ for advent however, before Christmas, in our family. It helps to stay focused on the meaning of the season, and not get swept away in the secularity of it all…thanks for contributing here.🙂
 
I’m excited for friends who are candidates (that’s after catechumen, right?) who will be baptized on Easter so I will go to service with them. Oh, I cannot wait until Pentecost!
 
whatevergirl said:
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?’
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Hopefully working, since I will be laid off with no income for the summer months.
When I was a “backslidden Catholic” raising my kids as evangelicals, I would take them to the stations of the cross on Good Friday. We’ve been blessed in the past to do a city walk with a large cross with Communion and Liberation. This year, while I would love to have the day off, I really need the income. Not a lot of selection at the Food Banks.
“If ya don’t work, ya don’t eat.”
 
Fast cars, cheap whiskey and loose women…either than or on my knees at my parish’s Good Friday Liturgy 😉
 
While everything is closed here on Good Friday (in Canada Good Friday is a statutory holiday), including the parish office, I’ll probably be in there anyway getting last minute details attended to. Celebration of the Lord’s Passion at 3:00 then home to make fish cakes for supper followed by a return to the church at 7:00 for the Stations of the Cross.
 
bpbasilphx said:
** I will be doing a right to life walk (7 miles) then mass.**

There is no mass on Good Friday.

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Well there is certainly Church services on Good Friday. I don’t know of any parish that doesn’t conduct something on Good Friday.
 
whatevergirl said:
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?’
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I take Holy Week off every year. My typical Good Friday the past few years consists of:

Noon - Good Friday Liturgy according to the Extraordinary Form

3PM - Good Friday Liturgy according to the Ordinary Form

7PM - Stations of the Cross

In the in between times I will typically pray the Divine Office. I will use the LOTH or the Monastic Diurnal to pray all of the hours on Good Friday (usually with the exception of Matins/the Office of Readings).

James
 
bpbasilphx said:
** 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 will be taking part in the Celebration of the Lord’s passion, the Veneration fo the Cross, and then Holy Communion, probably will also take part in the stations of the Cross and at home watch the Passion of the Cross.
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cthulhubryan said:
I’m excited for friends who are candidates (that’s after catechumen, right?) who will be baptized on Easter so I will go to service with them. Oh, I cannot wait until Pentecost!
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We are called the Elect now! 😉 And I can’t wait either!
 
I also take a personal holiday on Good Friday. I don’t watch TV or listen to the radio. I’ll go to the chapel in the afternoon to pray as you did. Every time hunger begs for relief, I’ll offer it up for the souls in Purgatory.
 
That’s great Jguerra…

I always thought we as Catholics, were ‘supposed to’ be silent for the hours when Jesus was suffering on the cross (if one finds it’s possible and say doesn’t have to work or something that day)?
 
Are we supposed to be silent? I think I’ve heard that somewhere before. I also thought we weren’t supposed to shop, or basically go about having fun. I"ll be in church for those 3 hours, God willing. It’s always my most spiritual time of the year. I wouldn’t miss it.
 
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