Good Friday Liturgy

The Good Friday Liturgy will be at St. Paul's Newman Center on April 7th at 3PM. 

From the earliest times the Christians kept every Friday as a fast day (Duchesne, 228) and every Sunday as a feast day (Duchesne, 47); and the obvious reasons for those usages explain why Easter is the Sunday par excellence, and why the Friday which marks the anniversary of Christ’s Death came to be called the Great or the Holy or the Good Friday. The origin of the term Good is not clear. Some say it is from “God‘s Friday” (Gottes Freitag), so Hampson (op. cit. below); others maintain that it is from the German Gute Freitag, and not specially English. Sometimes, too, the day was called Long Friday by the Anglo-Saxons; so today in Denmark.

There is, perhaps, no office in the whole liturgy so peculiar, so interesting, so composite, so dramatic as the office and ceremonial of Good Friday.