Good Friday 2025: Christians from all over the world are taking place
Christians around the world marched in processions and observed one of Christianity’s most gloomy days, Good Friday.
Christians around the world observe Good Friday, one of the most gloomy days of religion just days before Easter celebrations begin.
The Holy Day commemorating the pain of the cross of Jesus Christ is one of several Christian celebrations on Easter Sunday, paying homage to the events leading up to the crucifixion and the miraculous resurrection of Christ. The period is known as Holy Week.
“Good Friday has been the heart of the Christian message for centuries,” Daniel Alvarez, an associate professor of religion studies at Florida International University, told USA Today in a March 2024 interview.
Understanding history and important Fridays
We explore the meaning and tradition of Good Friday and why it is a gloomy day for Christians worldwide. Learn about fasting practices and more.
Good Friday is also considered a day of mourning, as it takes time for observers to meditate on the death of Christ, particularly as he meditates on the suffering he faced to the cross.
Things you need to know about Good Friday.
What is the importance of Good Friday? And when is that?
Good Friday, the second day of the Holy Week, falls on Friday, April 18th.
The Holy Day commemorates the “trial of Jesus” before “Pontius Pilate, his death penalty, his torture, his crucifixion, and burial,” according to Trinity University at Melbourne.
“It’s called “good” Friday in the outdated sense of the word “good.” It implies something “holy” or “respectful” (“holy Friday”), explains Trinity College. “For many Christians, Good Friday is a day of fasting, and faithful people will attend church services, where they will meditate and worship the cross of Christ.”
According to Britannica, it is a day of “sorrow, penance, fasting” for Christians who use the day to remember the suffering and suffering that they endured on the cross.
“Good Friday is part of something else,” Gabriel Ladl, an assistant professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame, shared in a previous interview with USA Today. “It’s its own, but it’s also part of something big.”
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What foods can you eat (or can’t) on Good Friday?
Some observers use Good Friday as an opportunity to fast Good Friday, Pastor Dustin Doll, executive director of sacred worship for the Conference of American Catholic Bishops, told USA Today in a February 2024 interview.
“This practice is a way to empty ourselves so that we are filled with God,” Dote said.
Catholics are considered Christians and avoid all meat (except fish) in the 40-day season of Lent, prayer, fasting and giving on Friday. The practice is to honor the way Christ sacrificed his flesh on Good Friday.
The limits are as follows:
According to the Marine Stewardship Council, Catholics are considered different types of meat and are therefore allowed to eat fish.
Is Good Friday and Passover related? How?
According to Alvarez, there is a link of direction between the Passover tradition, Christian tradition, also known as Pesach, a Jewish holiday, and Good Friday. The Passover, the most widely celebrated Jewish holidays, commemorates the Israelites’ escape from Egypt.
“The whole Christian idea of a sin that Jesus is our tone sin is strictly derived from the Jewish Passover tradition.”
Passover is enslaved by the Egyptians to commemorate the day the “angels of death” passed by the Israelites’ houses. The family was encouraged to draw the entrance of the house with lamb blood when the escape occurred, so God would save the lives of his firstborn sons, Alvarez said.
Christians, on the other hand, call Christ the “Lamb of God.” For he was sacrificed to protect humanity from the “wrath of the righteous God who cannot tolerate sin,” like the blood of the lamb that was used to save the life of his eldest Israelite son.
“Because Jesus is the firstborn (of God), the overall idea of the death of the firstborn is important,” Alvarez added that the importance behind the blood of each biblical lamb brings them together.
The same can be said about the first born sacrifice and the possibility of bloodshed, two general religious themes.
Contributor: Jordan Mendoza, USA Today
