This is why Good Friday is a holy day for Catholics and they do not eat meat on this day. In fact they don’t eat meat on any Friday during lent. This is also why Easter is also a holy day of celebration because it signifies when Jesus rose from the dead. This is among the ...
Good Friday is a day of fasting requiring Catholics to refrain from eating meat.Traditionally, there is no Mass and no celebrationof the Eucharist on Good Friday. A liturgy may still be performed and communion, if taken, comes from hosts consecrated on Holy Thursday. Why does the Catholic Chu...
@eastwest - Our company closes on the Good Friday holiday. I work for a small business and the owners are Catholic, so they attend Catholic Mass on the day. It’s actually the first business I’ve ever worked for that closes on Good Friday. Most corporations stay open on that day. Sc...
a time when women her age dressed in somber grays, dull browns, and boring blues. But not Mary Todd Lincoln. For her, expensive clothes were a mark of importance, of breeding. She proceeded to dress like a peacock, draping herself in bold blues, crimson, yellow, and royal purple,...
Why? Because I received a vision of the total eclipse of the Sun as my sign of the end. Furthermore God has always used Easter-Passover-Good Friday in April to cause huge changes in my life time. “Who shall be able to stand?” When Jesus returns in the Heavens on the Eastern Rise...
Thus the most important holiday we SHOULD celebrate is April 19, 1775, the day they shot back. Someone recently asked me if I had any advice for a young person. My immediate answer: “Buy all the ammo you can, you’re gonna need it. And don’t keep all your cookies in the same ...
While modern-day rules for Ash Wednesday and Lent fasting differ among Catholics, such as abstaining from meat on Fridays and one meatless meal a day on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, many Christians find Lent to be a valuable time of abstaining from specific foods, social media, television ...
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ANIMAL-FREE FRIDAYMEATLESS MONDAY encourages people to eat other parts of the animal on the one day a week they don’t eat meat. The animal’s eggs and milk used in a variety of ways doesn’t do any more good for a person’s health than eating flesh every day....