Good Friday
April 18
Friday of the Passion of the Lord (Good Friday) red Is 52:13—53:12/Heb 4:14-16; 5:7-9/Jn 18:1—19:42 (40) Pss Prop.
*Good Friday.
*The Entombment of Christ – Caravaggio.
This is a dramatic and famous painting of the burial of Jesus, by the Master Caravaggio. Nicodemus holds the Savior’s legs and John holds Christ’s wounded side. The Blessed Mother stands behind the apostle, stretching out her arms in longing for a final embrace of her Divine Son. Mary Magdalene stands beside the Blessed Virgin, her head bowed before Christ’s body. Mary of Cleophas stands behind the others, her face and hands raised in grief. The group appears to have paused at the stone slab, which marks the entrance to the burial chamber of the cave tomb. Christ’s limp right hand touches the stone, which is a symbol of Himself as the Founder of the Church.
**Good Friday Night.
This moving, antique illustration shows Veronica (the woman who wiped the face of Jesus on His way to Mt. Calvary) displaying the holy cloth, with the face of Christ imprinted on it, to the Virgin Mary, on the evening of the Crucifixion — Good Friday Night.
***Good Friday is a Christian holiday commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus and his death at Calvary. It is observed during Holy Week as part of the Paschal Triduum. It is also known as Holy Friday, Great Friday, Great and Holy Friday (also Holy and Great Friday), and Black Friday.
Members of many Christian denominations, including the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran, Anglican, Methodist, Oriental Orthodox, United Protestant and some Reformed traditions (including certain Continental Reformed, Presbyterian and Congregationalist churches), observe Good Friday with fasting and church services. In many Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican and Methodist churches, the Service of the Great Three Hours’ Agony is held from noon until 3 pm, the time duration that the Bible records as darkness covering the land to Jesus’ sacrificial death on the cross. Communicants of the Moravian Church have a Good Friday tradition of cleaning gravestones in Moravian cemeteries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Friday
And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever – the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.
Jn 14:16-17