What do Christians Celebrate on Good Friday?”
Good Friday, also known as Holy Friday, Black Friday, Great Friday, is a holiday observed primarily by Christians commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and his death as believed by Christians at Calvary. The holiday is observed during Holy Week as part of the Paschal Triduum on the Friday preceding Easter Sunday, and often coincides with the Jewish observance of Passover. Based on the Christian scriptural details[citation needed] of the Sanhedrin Trial of Jesus, the Crucifixion of Jesus was most probably on a Friday. The estimated year of Good Friday is AD 33, by two different groups, and originally as AD 34 by Isaac Newton via the differences between the Biblical and Julian calendars and the crescent of the moon.[1][2][3][4][5][6] A third method, using a completely different astronomical approach based on a lunar Crucifixion darkness and eclipse model (consistent with Apostle Peter’s reference to a “moon of blood” in Acts 2:20) arrives at the same date, namely Friday April 3,
Mumbai/Kolkata /Kochi, Apr 2 : Christians across the country observed Good Friday today by partaking in the morning mass in churches. The day marks the crucifixion of Jesus Christ on this day over 2,000 years ago. In Mumbai, devotees came out in the street in large numbers and took part in the procession. Scenes from the Ben Hur and The Passion of the Christ were also enacted, depicting the sufferings and pain endured by Jesus Christ while he carried his cross on his shoulders. “Today, we celebrate this Good Friday. It is the day when Jesus died for us and we are here today walking the way of the cross as a witness to Jesus and as a family…we come here together to show our solidarity in the suffering and pain of Jesus,” said Father Julius D’souza, a Christian priest. In Kolkata, special mass prayers were held in churches. Passionate Christian devotees carry small and huge wooden cross making their way to Mount Malayatoor near Kochi. This is done to show their love for Jesus Christ an
