Fasting The practice of fasting, a religious custom strongly associated with Good Friday, cuts across denominational boundaries. Although Roman Catholics eliminated many of their Lenten fasting customs in the last hundred years or so, Church authorities still require the faithful to fast on Good Friday...
In that session, we ask cradle Catholics ‘who was the greatest influence on your faith as a child, and who is it now?’ To those who have come to the faith as adults, we ask the latter part of the question. Generally, the answer will be a parent or grandparent, sometimes a priest...
Good Friday, the Friday before Easter, is the day on which Christians annually observe the commemoration of the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ. From the early days of Christianity, Good Friday was observed as a day of sorrow, penance, and fasting.