Jazz concert on Good Friday?

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Is it against the Catholic faith to attend a Jazz concert on the evening of Good Friday? When I was younger, my parents always said we shouldn’t go out or do anything on Good Friday evening. I’m now a parent and would like to take my 12 year old son to a jazz concert. I want to know if it’s the right thing to do.
 
Dear Bob,

Going to a jazz concert is not an appropriate thing to do on Good Friday. What is an appropriate thing to do is for the family to forgo radio and TV and read an account of the Lord’s together instead. You might also pray the Stations of the Cross and/or the five Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary. Good Friday is the most significant day in the history of the human race. That God would choose to enter the human race and suffer as He did – to the point of dying on the cross, should matter more to us than anything we can think of. The meaning of our very lives is the direct result of the Lord’s passion.

Nothing you can give your children could ever be more valuable than your example in showing your love and appreciation to Him for such love.

Fr. Vincent Serpa, O.P.
 
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