Good Friday spirituality

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How do you feel on Good Friday?
Do you feel, or maybe try to feel, continuously sad?
Is there place for joy for you too on Good Friday?
Do you do normal things?
Does the world around you seem different or does everything go its normal way?
How do you make it special, anything other than praying/attending church and fasting?

It is such an important day.
 
I will go first myself.

I feel evry much this is a special day. I somehow dread it long before it comes (this mostly also because I have problems with fasting), but somehow it is also a… GOOD day, as its name in English also says.

I don’t feel continuously sad. I try to reflect. I try to reflect on what Jesus went through and also on my own spirituality/life.
There is joy in it too. I had a wonderful conversation with a teenage neighbor girl, which was alos quite joyful and enriching.
I prayed a special stations of the cross (focussing on the Sacred Heart of Jesus) walking outside in the springtime sun. Which was also joyful and at the same time reflective.
I feel the joy already of Lent ending and Easter coming.
I have hope that a very tiresome and nagging problem I have will get much better now (invlovling fears and scrupulosity).

Normal things… I tried to buy necessary things yesterday so I don’t have to go shopping today.
I try not to do too much work, similar as on Sundays.
I try to keep the fast.

The world around… hm, it somehow seems quiter. Even though where I am right now (a small town near Split, Croatia) it is officially a workday, this IS also a very Catholic environment and it seems that somehow the world seems quieter… but I might be wrong here, amybe this is only in me.

I am planning to go to the church service this evening at 6pm, with Veneration of the Cross, and afterward a procession outside.
I have talked with my neighbors about Easter customs here and it all feels special, a holy time.

I try to do more spiritual things, even though I have also done some other thigns like sent my parents a photograph of me etc.

Kathrin
 
I feel overwhelmed, but in a good way. Picturing Him on the cross I think, “This is how much God loves me.”
 
I feel loved on Good Friday, because of the sacrifice Christ made for mankind. With the death of Christ came the death of death.

1 Corinthians 15:55
“Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?”

God bless! Hope you have a “good” Friday! 😃
 
I really dont feel continually sad. I just try to move my focus and keep it completely on Jesus and His sufferings and how much He went through and how much He loved me while going through it. So while it is a sad day, i feel more loved than sad.
 
Kathrin said:
How do you feel on Good Friday?
Do you feel, or maybe try to feel, continuously sad?
Is there place for joy for you too on Good Friday?
Do you do normal things?
Does the world around you seem different or does everything go its normal way?
How do you make it special, anything other than praying/attending church and fasting?

It is such an important day.
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I am feeling down. I don’t get why it is called Good Friday. I was just reading the daily readings and my heart sunk into my stomach and it is still there.

Today is normal I guess. We are moving. In a few hours we will be out if the house so I can’t really be apart of Mass. If I can later I plan on praying Stations of the Cross. Might not be till bedtime.

This is my first time really that this day has been a big day. In the Protestant churches that I have been in nothing much was said about today. I feel horrible for never giving it the respect it deserves, that Jesus deserves.
 
We must never forget that we “know” the end of the story! We know that the crucifixion is not the end.
 
“Feeling loved” - at least two people said that here.
That again gives the day a whole new awareness. What a good feeling that is.
 
My heart breaks on Good Friday.
I know that my sins added to the number of lashes He received.
I know that my sins added to the weight of the Cross.
All I can think is, Jesus I’m sorry. Over and over again.
I’m so grateful to Him, yet at the same time just horrified by what He had to go through.

God, forgive me for my sins. I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I am so sorry.
 
IrishRush said:
My heart breaks on Good Friday.
I know that my sins added to the number of lashes He received.
I know that my sins added to the weight of the Cross.
All I can think is, Jesus I’m sorry. Over and over again.
I’m so grateful to Him, yet at the same time just horrified by what He had to go through.

God, forgive me for my sins. I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I am so sorry.
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Very well put. Sins from my entire life have been flashing in my head. Because of me he suffered, was tortued and died.
 
I did do some errands today, but took some time to read the account of Jesus’ crucifixion from the Gospel of Mark and thanked Jesus for dying for us.

I am fasting and abstaining from meat today.

I don’t feel particularly sad today, but I’m conscious of the meaning of the day.

Last night I went to a very meaningful Maundy Thursday service. At the conclusion of the service, the sanctuary went dark and the altar was stripped. We all left in silence. It was very profound for me.
 
I juat had a lady say to me at Dunkin Donut say “Happy Good Friday”. I found that really odd and just didn’t sit right with me.
 
Thank you all for your Good Friday thoughts. You reminded me. Now that I am retired, I have to make a special effort to remember these things. When I went to Catholic schools and even when I was working and we used to close up shop for 3 hours, or for the entire afternoon, it was also less of an issue to remember.
What an awesome God we have! Not only did He create all of the universe and each person to share His love to the extent of making us His bride, but that He loved us so much that when we misused our free will and spoiled creation and our own chances of perfect happiness, He took on the form of a humble limited man and died for us both as an example to us and as an effective redeeming sacrifice. What a profound love and amazing love! What an invitation to constant intimacy. Thank You Lord for living and dying for all of us!
 
Isn’t it a day of such mixed feelings. Love, thankfulness, sadness, hope…
 
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