New Delhi: Every year, the Friday before Easter is observed as Good Friday, and this time it’s on 2nd April. Easter is celebrated on the first Sunday after Paschal Full Moon according to the Church’s lunar calendar. This year Easter is on April 4th.
Christians commemorate Jesus’ crucifixion on this day. For Christians all over the world it is a day of grief, penance and fasting. For the same reason this day is also known as Black Friday. Good Friday aka Holy Friday also marks the end of Lent, a 40-day fasting period for the Christians.
The History Behind It
Good Friday was the day when Christ was arrested and executed. But it is also considered holy because Jesus gave his life as a sacrifice while suffering for the sins of the people. Jesus sacrificed himself due to his love for everyone. Because of this gesture humanity got a fresh start as all their sins were dismissed. According to some experts crucifixion took place around AD 30 or AD 33.
Even after being such a bad and dark day in the history of Christians, why it is known as ‘Good Friday’? Some people believe that the term came from the words God’s Friday. While, some people believe that ‘Good’ stands for Holy and that is why the day is also known as Holy Friday.
Significance
According to Bible, Jesus Christ was crucified on Good Friday but the son of God resurrected on the Easter. This ultimately signifies that good always wins and also that Jesus loved everyone that’s why he went through so much suffering,
Good Friday Quotes and messages to share:
“Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.” -W.H. Auden
“God proved his love on the cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world” “I LOVE YOU” -Billy Graham
“God proved his love on the cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world” “I LOVE YOU” – Billy Graham
“No pain, no palm, no thorns. no throne, no gall, no glory. no cross, no crown.” – William Penn
“Thinking of you on Good Friday and praying that the Lord keeps you in his loving care always.” -Happy Good Friday 2019
“If Christ is God, He cannot sin, and if suffering was a sin in and by itself, He could not have suffered and died for us. However, since He took the most horrific death to redeem us, He showed us in fact that suffering and pain have great power.” -E.A. Bucchianeri
“Praying that the lord all your Heart with peace. Holds you in His Love and Blesses you with His grace… On this Holy Day and Always.”
“May your faith in the god, bring peace to your hearth & New hope in your life. May God Always bless You!” -Have a Blessed GOOD FRIDAY!
On This Holy Day
May His Light Guide Your Path
May His Love Grace Your Heart
And May His Sacrifice Strengthen
Your Soul! GOOD FRIDAY
“I Pray to Lord For Yo, He Gives You Blessing Shine Upon You On This Holy day or May He Always Keep in His Loving Care.”
“May on this GOOD FRIDAY we start it with Fasting & Prayers so that we can bring God’s mercy & forgiveness on all mankind Let’s Pray together.”
“You are blessed to be given another chance to live. make use of it and be a blessing just like what Jesus Christ is to us.” -Have a Good Friday
“I wish the Lord will keep you in his loving care now and always.-Happy Good Friday All
“Good Friday marks the slaying of our Jesus, The unblemished lamb, the perfect sacrifice. He took our guilt and blamed upon Himself.”
“Life is a maybe, Death is for sure. Sin is the cause, Christ is the cure!” -Happy Good Friday!
Jesus Christ is Risen Today, Alleluia!
Our Triumphant Holy day, Alleluia!
Who did Once upon the cross, Alleluia!
Suffer To redeem Our Loss, Alleluia!
“May the loving-kindness of the highest God be with you as you take the time to reverence his name this Good Friday.”
“We who are enlisted to be fellow-workers with God know that..death did not have the last word, that Good Friday was not the end of the story.”
