No Good Friday in Bloomington

[Walter]

Oh, and why "Good Friday"? it should be called Black Friday and we should have "Good Sunday"

Actually, can you think of a greater good than the fact that God loves us to the point of suffering and dying for us? If Good Friday isn’t good, then there is no such thing as a good day. Good Friday is the center of human history as well as the center of our lives. We celebrate it every time we celebrate Mass.

 

[rlvaughn]

After 40 years of working on Sundays, holidays and every other day, I now find myself as a teacher looking forward to being off Good Friday and the Monday after Easter. I was surprised as this, because this area is solidly Protestant and very few people commemorate Good Friday as a holiday. It's not a city, state or county holiday, so most people will be working. For schools, it just happens to fit into the calendar to make up some snow days that weren't taken.

Our school does the same, putting the Friday before and Monday after Easter into the school calendar as make-up days for bad weather. If we don't use the bad weather days (which we didn't this year), then students and teachers are off on Friday and Monday. Actually next year there is a move to place one of the bad weather days on another Friday rather than the Monday after Easter. Unlike your area, the town where I work, even though much like the rest of East Texas, has a fairly strong Catholic history/presence as well. Add to that the high portion of Hispanics who have moved here that are of the Roman Catholic tradition, our school takes a pretty hard hit on the Average Daily Attendance when they have classes on Good Friday.

No matter. I'm off work, so I will give thanks.

Cultural holidays provide a nice break, whether or not they are scriptural.

 

[church mouse guy]

Our school does the same, putting the Friday before and Monday after Easter into the school calendar as make-up days for bad weather. If we don't use the bad weather days (which we didn't this year), then students and teachers are off on Friday and Monday. Actually next year there is a move to place one of the bad weather days on another Friday rather than the Monday after Easter. Unlike your area, the town where I work, even though much like the rest of East Texas, has a fairly strong Catholic history/presence as well. Add to that the high portion of Hispanics who have moved here that are of the Roman Catholic tradition, our school takes a pretty hard hit on the Average Daily Attendance when they have classes on Good Friday.
Cultural holidays provide a nice break, whether or not they are scriptural.

Wait. If you say that Good Friday isn't scriptural, why do you care that the homosexuals shut it down in Bloomington, Indiana?

 

[rlvaughn]

Because I oppose their radical agenda that wants to reinvent life and history as we know it. I can easily stand up for cultural things in culture that I personally would keep out of the church. Doesn't bother me, but apparently seems contradictory to some of you guys.

 

[church mouse guy]

Because I oppose their radical agenda that wants to reinvent life and history as we know it. I can easily stand up for cultural things in culture that I personally would keep out of the church. Doesn't bother me, but apparently seems contradictory to some of you guys.

No, I just wondered why you cared after you said that you didn't believe in Good Friday. No problem. I believe in Good Friday (I came out of mainline churches) but I consider Indiana University in decline. I think that Bloomington should do away with Christmas because it is associated with White Christmas, huh? Most people in southern Indiana are poor as the area is too hilly for good farming. There is limestone mining in the area of Bloomington but the heart of it is in the next county and the town of Bedford, Bedford Limestone. On south there is enough coal to make Indiana # 5 in coal mining. Bill Monroe had a bluegrass festival in Bean Blossom in neighboring Brown County but I have never been. It's all rust belt in small town Indiana. I am from northern Indiana, which used to be much more industrial. Lincoln lived in southern Indiana as a boy.

 

[Walter]

Btw, a Seattle school now calls Easter Eggs 'Spring Spheres '.

Easter Eggs renamed Spring Spheres - Oregon Faith Report

 

[rsr]

I have my doubts that the story is true, but it could be. I don't mind a little depaganizing, but they're not spheres, for crying out loud. How about Vernal Ovoids?

 

[David Kent]

Actually, can you think of a greater good than the fact that God loves us to the point of suffering and dying for us? If Good Friday isn’t good, then there is no such thing as a good day. Good Friday is the center of human history as well as the center of our lives. We celebrate it every time we celebrate Mass.

Jesus didn't die on a Friday, but Wednesday, in the middle of a prohetic week and also a literal week.

 

[Walter]

Jesus didn't die on a Friday, but Wednesday, in the middle of a prohetic week and also a literal week.

Then your comment about calling it 'Good Sunday' makes absolutely no sense. The actual date/day of the crucifixion is of interest to me but does not matter as it has no impact on my faith. Most Christians choose to observe the Friday prior to the day we observe His resurrection as the day He shed is precious blood for us. To be honest with you, I have never been in a Baptist church that refused to celebrate Easter Sunday and treat it like any other Sunday service.

 

[Walter]

I have my doubts that the story is true, but it could be. I don't mind a little depaganizing, but they're not spheres, for crying out loud. How about Vernal Ovoids?

The story is true. Just google it, plenty of hits. Remember, they can't put it on the internet if it's not true, right? Actually, the children were very disappointed that they went to the park to look for Spring Spheres but only found Easter Eggs.

 

[David Kent]

Then your comment about calling it 'Good Sunday' makes absolutely no sense. The actual date/day of the crucifixion is of interest to me but does not matter as it has no impact on my faith. Most Christians choose to observe the Friday prior to the day we observe His resurrection as the day He shed is precious blood for us. To be honest with you, I have never been in a Baptist church that refused to celebrate Easter Sunday and treat it like any other Sunday service.

We are not told to remember the death of our Lord on "Good Friday" but remember in our communion service, the Lord's Supper.