Lent

As many of you know, Lent is 40 days of vasting. Many Christians will "give-up" something in honor of Jesus giving up his life for us. Most people give up some sort of food. Your supposed to keep your "Lent Promise" for all 40 days. You start on Ash Wednesday, and until Easter Sunday, You give up whatever it is you gave up.

Catholics may bury people anytime, including Holy Week, however, they are forbidden to celebrate any sacraments, other than the Mass on Holy Thursday evening, and the sacrament of penance, during the Sacred Triduum. So they are unable to have a funeral Mass during that time.

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Yes, you may eat meat on Holy Saturday, although the Church earnestly asks that you continue your Good Friday fast and abstinence until the Easter Vigil, if possible; although it is not required. Please see any Ordo for Holy Saturday.

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According to the Bible, Jesus spent 40 days in the desert with no food or drink while being tempted by Satan. Christians fast and usually give up something special to them during this time to represent the hardships Jesus went through. Lent is also a preparation for the crucifixion of Jesus, so people are almost mourning what is to come. Then on Easter, when it is believed that he resurrected, people stop fasting and celebrate his resurrection.

Christians can fast and pray whenever God put it in their heart to do.

Good Friday is a Christian holiday commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus and his death at Calvary.

Good Friday last fell on April 4 in 1980. Good Friday has previously fallen on this date in the years 1738, 1749, 1760, 1806, 1817, 1828, 1890, 1947, 1958 and 1969. Good Friday will next fall on April 4 in 2042.

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On Holy Thursday you do not have to fast on Good Friday however you do.

40 days after ash Wednesday

Most parishes collect them the Sunday before Ash Wednesday to burn. The ashes they distribute on Ash Wednesday are old, blessed, burned palms. As with any blessed item you can either burn them, bury them, or take them to your church.

This was the evening when three major things happened to Jesus.

1. He washed his disiples' feet - a very humble task - as an example that, when he had gone, they were to serve each other with love just as he had loved them.

2. He had the last supper with them. This supper was the Passover Meal - a meal at which Jews remembered the covenant (agreement) God had made with them when they were released from captivity in Egypt. At the supper, he passed round the bread, which he said was his body, to be broken for the whole world when his crucifixion came, and the cup of win, which he said was his blood, shed for everyone for the forgiveness of sins. Ths was to mark God's NEW covenant, and that, whenever we ate or drank in this way we were to remember Jesus and what he did for us. This is the basis of the Holy Communion service in a Christian Church (sometimes called the Eucharist, Lord's supper or Mass)

3. He was arrested after being betrayed by Judas Iscariot. During the rest of the night and through the night up to Good Friday, he stood trial under the High Priest, Herod, and Pontious Pilate, before being crucified on the Friday morning.

Nowadays, on Maundy Thursday, the queen of England, as a mark of humility doesn't wash her feet (!) but instead always presents commemorative purses containing money (now more symbolic than valuable) to a selection of people representing the poor and needy.

The word Maundy is derived from the Latin mandatum from the phrase "Mandatum novum do vobis ut diligatis invicem sicut dilexi vos" ("A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you"), the statement by Jesus in the Gospel of John 13:34) by which Jesus explained to the Apostles the significance of his action of washing their feet.

Easter Sunday fell on April 14th in 1974. This would make Good Friday the 12th April.

Good Friday in 2009 will be on April 10 th
Good Friday, the anniversary day of the Passion, crucifixion, death, and burial of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will fall on April 10 this year.

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Because of religious beliefs, its called fasting. What it is, is it's not eating for a long time, or not eating a certain food for a certain amount of time. --- In the Roman Catholic Faith: fasting vs. abstinence: The Catholic Church requires that all members 14 years of age, and older, unto death, abstain from eating meat ( beef / foul ) on Fridays during Lent. Fasting is required on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. Catholics between the ages of 18-59 are permitted only one full meal. Partial portions of food, not to equal one full meal, is permitted twice a day. As in abstinence, meat is not allowed ---

In the Catholic Church, and in Protestant Churches that derive their rituals from the Catholic Church, paraments are not used at all on Good Friday.

A parament, which is sometimes called an antependium, is the relatively heavily decorated hanging or tapestry for the front of the altar table. It conceals the front of the altar from the top to the floor, and from the left edge to the right edge. A parament is optional, unlike the mandatory altar cloth or cloths that cover the top surface.

If used, paraments should match the liturgical color of the priest's vestments, and this would suggest that the parament should match the black or red vestments worn by the priest on Good Friday, however paraments should not be used on Good Friday.

The altars are completely stripped after the Mass of the Last Supper, on the evening of Holy Thursday. The altar remains bare for most of the Good Friday afternoon service. At the end of the Good Friday service, before Holy Communion is to be distributed, a single, plain, usually white altar cloth is spread on the top of the altar table. The decorative parament or antependium is not permitted or used. Indeed, the only cloths used at the altar at this point are the single altar cloth, and a corporal about eighteen inches square, upon which the ciborium containing the Eucharist is placed.

Is doesn't really matter if you do or don't drink on good Friday. A lot of people probably drank alcohol on good Friday to celebrate. We celebrate because Jesus was suffering and it was a good thing that he didn't have to suffer anymore.