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Good Friday - Good Turn

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Farmor15 Fri 30-Mar-18 15:05:46

Probably a bit late to start this topic, but just a suggestion: Do some kind of “good turn” for another person or the environment.smile since it’s Good Friday. Might do more good than attending a religious service.

I got the idea a bit earlier and have just been out collecting cans and plastic bottles which some local walker has been picking up from sides of road and sticking on branches of the hedgerow in my rural area. I’ve noticed them for ages and thought ‘someone’ should collect them.

I suppose telling others about a good deed takes the’good’ out of it, but if it inspires anyone else.......?

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Anniebach Fri 30-Mar-18 15:27:24

It is possible to attend church and do some good turn

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Nonnie Fri 30-Mar-18 16:16:53

I agree with Annie why should it be one or the other?

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kittylester Fri 30-Mar-18 16:20:44

I agree - but having said that, I've done neither! blush

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Anniebach Fri 30-Mar-18 16:28:24

Kitty neither carries a jail sentence if not done ?

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durhamjen Fri 30-Mar-18 16:33:30

Better than doing nothing, particularly for those who are not religious?
I heard somewhere that Good is a corruption of Holy Friday.
It must be better to do something good, rather than leave it as Holy and do nothing.
Well done, Farmor.

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Farmor15 Fri 30-Mar-18 16:38:43

Of course you can do both - or neither. I just prefer the Holy Thursday and Easter Vigil services, to the Good Friday one, but like to mark Good Friday in some way.

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durhamjen Fri 30-Mar-18 16:48:33

Never understood why killing Jesus makes it a good day.
Holy Friday makes much more sense.

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Anniebach Fri 30-Mar-18 17:11:18

Dj, if a person doesn't have faith they wouldn't want to attend church , if a person chooses to attend church there is no reason why they can't do other things too. I accept it's difficult for atheists to realise this, as to calling the day Good Friday, you can choose to call it Friday can you not.

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tessagee Fri 30-Mar-18 17:43:00

Well said Annie.

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durhamjen Fri 30-Mar-18 18:19:35

You don't have to have faith to know that Jesus existed and was killed in a particularly brutal way.

So explain again why it is called Good Friday.

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Anniebach Fri 30-Mar-18 18:22:24

I have no need to explain ,when I ask someone to explain something I don't understand I think a 'please ' is kinder than a demand

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durhamjen Fri 30-Mar-18 18:31:48

Okay. Not bothered if you do or not.

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Anniebach Fri 30-Mar-18 18:36:49

Then why ask I wonder ?

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Jalima1108 Fri 30-Mar-18 18:37:20

Never understood why killing Jesus makes it a good day.
DD keeps asking me that, I don't have the answer.

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kittylester Fri 30-Mar-18 18:39:32

Wasn't it good because he died to save us all?

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Jalima1108 Fri 30-Mar-18 18:42:51

It isn't made very clear in anything I have read.

Sorrowful Friday, Black Friday, Holy Friday, Great Friday are all alternatives.

Here is one explanation:
www.pastoralliturgy.org/resources/WhyistheDayChristDiedCalledGoodFriday.pdf

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Anniebach Fri 30-Mar-18 18:45:57

He died that we might be forgiven, he died to make us GOOD

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Maggiemaybe Fri 30-Mar-18 19:32:42

I've read that it could be a corruption of "God's". It says in Jalima's link that the Germans call it Karfreitag, kar being an old German word for sorrow. That's just brought back a long lost memory to me of my mother serving up carlins (a sort of black pea, cooked with vinegar) during Lent. I'd completely forgotten about that. I wonder if the name comes from the same source?

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