It is also known as Black Friday, Holy Friday, Great Friday, Good Friday of the Passion of the Lord, Great and Holy Friday. Good Friday always occurs two days before Easter Sunday. It is the day ...

On Good Friday, the entire Church fixes her gaze on ... and we contemplate our own death to sin in the Death of our Lord. The Church - stripped of its ornaments, the altar bare, and with the ...

Pope Francis pulled out of a Good Friday service at the last minute ... had presided over the Celebration of the Passion of the Lord at St Peter’s Basilica earlier in the day.

where a fragment of wood believed to be the Lord's cross had been venerated every year on Good Friday since the fourth century. According to tradition, a part of the Holy Cross was discovered by ...