Good Friday 2013: What Is So Good About It?

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This is pretty evident that what happened on 'Good Friday', it appears to be too far from being something nearer to "good" - apparently. An innocent man was been declared guilty in front of a baying mob, he was dragged before two courts to get all the more humiliated and insulted, they beat him up in the most malevolent way.

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  • 1. Good Friday: What is so good about it?Have you ever asked yourself, "Why is it known as Good Friday?"This is pretty evident that what happened on Good Friday, it appears to be too far from beingsomething nearer to "good" - apparently. An innocent man was been declared guilty in frontof a baying mob, he was dragged before two courts to get all the more humiliated andinsulted, they beat him up in the most malevolent way. To add on to it, he was abandoned byall of his friends who were with him for as many as three years and one of his closest friendseven denies him vehemently with an expletive ridden denial. He was then tortured all themore and forced to hold and carry a heavy cross in which he was nailed to, naked, in publicview.It is evident that the celebration of Good Friday is ancient and a few of the practices areauthenticated by Egeria in the 4th century. Eventually the day has become a time of penance.And people consider spending the day in fasting as it was the death day of Christ. The name"Good Friday" presumably comes from "Gods Friday," though the precise reason for thisname is unclear. The custom of reverential the cross on Good Friday in all probabilityoriginated in the capital of Israel within the seventh or eighth century, and continues to thepresent day in several Western Churches. Pre-sanctified Masses are referenced in thedocuments that were command in AD 692, which suggests it pre-dates the seventh century.The Council mentions pre-sanctified liturgies as occurring primarily during lent. Apart fromCatholic and Christians, churches like Anglicans, Methodists, and Lutherans all observeGood Friday in varied degrees.Despite being such a black-day in history of human civilization, Good Friday is stillconsidered to be good and according to astrology experts, babies born on this day believe tobring great fortune to be the envy of everyone else. However, lets come back to our solepoint of discussion, why do we consider the day to be good.Most of us are fond of newspapers every morning, although they carry a little good news, anda whole lot of bad news. Theyre jam-packed with conflict, wars and instances of peopleusually being very nasty to each other. Horoscope and astrology experts often say that if wethink a little deeper, our lives are more like these newspapers with many stories that say wehave a tendency to be good on the surface, but beneath that skin and bone - we are full ofhurtful and lustful thoughts, pride, envy and greed. And bible calls all these as sin.Here lies the significance of Good Friday; it teaches us that every misery that God gives uscomes with an after award that is much greater than the momentary sufferings. EffectivelyJesus Christ never meant to face all those humiliations and sufferings he went through hislife, and he never deserved such a horrible death in any case. But through his sufferings andpains he taught us that every moment that is bad or unbearable - are momentary; they aremeant to come to an end soon and it brings something so good that you have never imaginedof. According to astrology, despite being born on a special hour, Jesus is God, but his God-ship didnt come for free he had to earn it. Thus, its evident that Good Friday is actuallyGood, for so many such reasons.For more information about Good Friday and other festival horoscope, daily horoscope, free tarotreading, numerology and more visit http://www.astroyogi.com/