Christian religious holiday, the Friday before Easter
Good Friday is a Christian holiday commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus and his death at Calvary. It is observed during Holy Week as part of the Paschal Triduum. It is also known as Holy Friday, Great Friday, Great and Holy Friday, and Black Friday.
Members of many Christian denominations, including the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran, Anglican, Methodist, Oriental Orthodox, United Protestant and some Reformed traditions, observe Good Friday with fasting and church services. In many Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican and Methodist churches, the Service of the Great Three Hours' Agony is held from noon until 3 pm, the time duration that the Bible records as darkness covering the land to Jesus' sacrificial death on the cross. Communicants of the Moravian Church have a Good Friday tradition of cleaning gravestones in Moravian cemeteries. The date of Good Friday varies from one year to the next in both the Gregorian and Julian calendars
Oh gee now we have 3 hours...
Here's that calendar again:
Good Friday is the Friday before Easter, which is calculated differently in
Eastern Christianity and
Western Christianity (see
Computus for details). Easter falls on the first Sunday following the Paschal Full Moon, the full moon on or after 21 March, taken to be the date of the vernal
equinox. The Western calculation uses the
Gregorian calendar, while the Eastern calculation uses the
Julian calendar, whose 21 March now corresponds to the Gregorian calendar's 3 April. The calculations for identifying the date of the full moon also differ.
In Eastern Christianity, Easter can fall between 22 March and 25 April on Julian Calendar (thus between 4 April and 8 May in terms of the Gregorian calendar, during the period 1900 and 2099), so Good Friday can fall between 20 March and 23 April, inclusive (or between 2 April and 6 May in terms of the Gregorian calendar).
More moon worship.
Easter:
Easter and its related holidays are
moveable feasts, not falling on a fixed date;
its date is computed based on a
lunisolar calendar (solar year plus Moon phase) similar to the
Hebrew calendar. The
First Council of Nicaea (325) established only two rules, namely independence from the Hebrew calendar and worldwide uniformity. No details for the computation were specified; these were worked out in practice, a process that took centuries and generated a number of
controversies. It has come to be the first Sunday after the
ecclesiastical full moon that occurs on or soonest after 21 March. Even if calculated on the basis of the
Gregorian calendar, the date of that full moon sometimes differs from that of the astronomical first full moon after the
March equinox.
Serious?
Everybody just do what they think is right..
I'm not a moon worshipper, just saying
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