Why Celebrate good friday?
During Lent, we should; live as children of the light, performing actions good, just and true (see Ep 5:1-9) O, My people! What have I done to thee that thou shouldst testify against me? – from The Reproaches Veneration of the Cross – The Reproaches Good Friday ideas for families The Cross – The Sign of the Cross – The Crucifix, Crosses and Symbols of Christ On Good Friday, the entire Church fixes her gaze on the Cross at Calvary. Each member of the Church tries to understand at what cost Christ has won our redemption. In the solemn ceremonies of Good Friday, in the Adoration of the Cross, in the chanting of the ‘Reproaches’, in the reading of the Passion, and in receiving the pre-consecrated Host, we unite ourselves to our Savior, and we contemplate our own death to sin in the Death of our Lord. The Church – stripped of its ornaments, the altar bare, and with the door of the empty tabernacle standing open – is as if in mourning. In the fourth century the Apostolic Constitutions descri
