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Do non-Catholics observe Good Friday?

Posted by musubi Mar 1 '10, 09:14

just curious.

I mean, there's no egg hunts or anything is there?

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IME, the average Catholic doesn't observe Good Friday in a going to Church way, just in a fasting way. - ty97 Mar 1, 09:18 12
- just because a lot of people *don't* go, doesn't mean they're not required... -- (link) - znufrii Mar 1, 09:20 6
  - If you read the GF description, you'll see that Mass is not required. -- nm - loosilu Mar 1, 09:23
  - Good Friday is not a Holy Day of Obligation. Read your link. -- nm - ty97 Mar 1, 09:23 4
    - you're right, I'm a bad Catholic... - znufrii Mar 1, 09:23 3
      - Sometimes it seems as though there's no such thing as a good catholic ... - Beryllium Mar 1, 09:24 2
        
        If you think you're a good Catholic, you weren't paying attention to what you were taught. -- nm - loosilu Mar 1, 09:26
        
        correct, they're all born with the original sin over them -- nm - zork Mar 1, 09:25
- Well, for Ash Wednesday, they do that creepy mark-on-the-forehead-thing. - musubi Mar 1, 09:20 1
  - It may vary by Church, but IME, there's normally a special service around 3pm (which is the time that is observed as Christ's death) - ty97 Mar 1, 09:22
- they can't in a going to church way because there are no masses that day. - loosilu Mar 1, 09:20 2
  - There are Good Friday events at Church that day though -- nm - ty97 Mar 1, 09:21 1
    - that's sort of what I'm saying. :) -- nm - loosilu Mar 1, 09:22
It's a statutory holiday here. Not sure that egg hunts is the best criterion plus those are not on G.F. -- nm - zork Mar 1, 09:18
I always find that to be a funny phrase, like we're all Jane Goodall. -- nm - Reagen Mar 1, 09:17 2
- Are you calling our Lord and Savior a monkey!?!? - musubi Mar 1, 09:19 1
  - L3 -- nm - SyrDragon Mar 1, 09:24
Depends on what you mean by "observe" but yes, it is a Christian event so it would be recognized by all Christian faiths -- nm - oblique Mar 1, 09:16 7
- I meant, like is there something specific that is done for the day? - musubi Mar 1, 09:17 6
  - yep and for Orthodox Christians too (although the Orthodox calendar usually doesn't have GF the same week as the Julian calendar) - zork Mar 1, 09:20 1
    - the GF service is basically a funeral. On Sunday people bring baskets with food, decorated eggs, candles, etc. to be blessed -- nm - zork Mar 1, 09:23
  - We have a service in our church (Evangelical Lutheran) that is lowkey and somber in it's attitude IIRC - oblique Mar 1, 09:19 3
    - I remember the GF services in the Lutheran church I grew up in -- they pulled a black shroud over the cross on the wall at the front of the church and - mara Mar 1, 09:26
    - us too -- nm - SyrDragon Mar 1, 09:25
    - Interesting. Thanks. (nm) - musubi Mar 1, 09:20
i believe all christians do. -- nm - Andie Mar 1, 09:15
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- No, because lots of people are non-Christuan -- nm - zork Mar 1, 09:16 1
  - err, non-Christian -- nm - zork Mar 1, 09:17
- Huh. What do they do to observe it? (nm) - musubi Mar 1, 09:16 4
  - dice games. -- nm - Max Mar 1, 09:21
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  - keggers -- nm - Don Homer Mar 1, 09:18
  - *gets out the binoculars* -- nm - znufrii Mar 1, 09:17

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