Good Friday
By RasmaSandra
@RasmaSandra (84064)
Daytona Beach, Florida
April 18, 2025 3:20pm CST
The day we know as Good Friday falls just before Easter each year, with this year's observance landing on the 18th of April and Easter Sunday following on the April 20. Despite its somber significance commemorating the day of Jesus' crucifixion as told in the Christian Bible, the day carries the seemingly paradoxical label "Good Friday".
It has been named because in Old English good also meant holy or sacred so it has been left as Good Friday but could also be referred to as Holy Friday. You have heard of the Bible being called the Good Book so Holy Book.
That still makes me wonder why in Latvian they don't call this day good or holy but call it Liela Piektdiena or Big Friday. Probably due to the events that occurred on this day in the Bible.
Happy Easter!
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/real-reason-good-friday-called-35051543?utm
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@RasmaSandra (84064)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
18 Apr
@Juliaacv found it online and liked that it was so colorful. Yes, I always wondered myself and did not know about the Old English so thought I would share,
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@RasmaSandra (84064)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
19 Apr
@JudyEv never would have thought that good could also be holy but then the word itself means all good things.
@kareng (72679)
• United States
20 Apr
@RasmaSandra Yes, very easily confusing to kids and adults, as well.
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@RasmaSandra (84064)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
19 Apr
@kareng that was sometimes confusing to me as a child
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@snowy22315 (188005)
• United States
18 Apr
Thanks for the article. Always interesting to find the history behind things like that.
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@RasmaSandra (84064)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
18 Apr
@snowy22315 I also always like to learn new things,
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@crossbones27 (50350)
• Mojave, California
19 Apr
That makes sense, no wonder I always want to bad on good Friday. Come on that was funny. 
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@RasmaSandra (84064)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
19 Apr
@crossbones27 and as a child I always wondered how to be good during Holy Week of course in anticipation of all the chocolate on Easter
and as a child I always wondered how to be good during Holy Week of course in anticipation of all the chocolate on Easter
@Marilynda1225 (84342)
• United States
18 Apr
All these years I never knew the reason behind the meaning of Good Friday
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@RasmaSandra (84064)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
19 Apr
@Marilynda nor did I that is why I thought I would share this but I was confused as a child between good and big due to the differences in language,
@RebeccasFarm (93802)
• United States
19 Apr
It's a good holiday too as I recall when I was a child in the Catholic school.
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@LindaOHio (186916)
• United States
21 Apr
I hope you had a nice Easter. Thank you for the information.
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@dgobucks226 (36446)
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19 Apr
It was a "Big Event" in the eyes of the followers of Jesus and the Christian faith, so "Big" makes sense too.
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@RasmaSandra (84064)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
19 Apr
@dgobucks226 looking at it that way I agree with you
@grenery8 (15996)
• Zagreb, Croatia (Hrvatska)
21 Apr
Same here, it is Big Friday, Big Thursday and Big Saturday. I am glad that Ortdox Christians and Catholics, as well as other Christians celebrated Easter on the same day, which is not an often thing. Happy Easter to you; we celbrate it today as well.
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