{"id":1830,"date":"2020-04-10T13:57:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T13:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=1830"},"modified":"2020-04-10T13:57:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T13:57:00","slug":"good-friday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=1830","title":{"rendered":"Good Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today is Good Friday \u2014 the ultimate misnomer. I know I\u2019ve mentioned this before, but it just never seems right that today should be called <em>Good<\/em> Friday. It seems it should be called Bad Friday\u2026 I think maybe the the Germans describe it better \u2014 in German, the day is called Karfreitag or Sorrowful Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Again, as I\u2019ve mentioned before, the term \u201cgood\u201d as applied to Good Friday is an Old English expression meaning holy. It is also referred to as Holy Friday sometimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As to the question of why it\u2019s called \u201cGood,\u201d we\u2019re consistently reminded that Good Friday is always tied to Easter Sunday \u2014 a joyful celebration of the resurrection of Jesus. He could not have been resurrected if he had not died first.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I read something from a Dean at Samford University (Timothy George) that summed it up nicely: \u201cTheologically, we must keep Good Friday and Easter together. Good Friday without Easter is doom and despair. Easter without Good Friday is empty sentiment and sentimentality. We have to remember what Jesus did on the cross, which is the fulfillment of God\u2019s eternal plan for the whole world. It has cosmic consequences. It\u2019s a day to be silent, it\u2019s a day to remember, to focus on who Jesus is and what He meant for humanity. It really was a bad Friday, a horrible Friday, but when it is seen as leading to the Resurrection, it was indeed a Good Friday.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So Good Friday it is \u2014 regardless of the name, it\u2019s a very significant day, and maybe a reminder, especially this year, that things often seem darkest just before the light. Someone said that today marks the day when wrath and mercy met at the cross. That\u2019s why Good Friday is so dark and so Good.<br>\u2014 30 \u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Good Friday \u2014 the ultimate misnomer. I know I\u2019ve mentioned this before, but it just never seems right that today should be called Good Friday. It seems it should be called Bad Friday\u2026 I think maybe the the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=1830\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1831,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions\/1831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}