As a sign of respect to God, should I treat Good Friday as a working day by waking up early and cleaning my house?

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I am not rostered to work on Good Friday due to religious reasons and was just wondering if I should treat it like a working day by not sleeping in. I would also be lawn mowing and line trimming outside while also picking up rubbish for the majority of Good Friday. I may also visit a church.

I have an alarm clock set for workdays, but I also left it in for Good Friday.

mrh-slos · Accepted Answer

The best way you can honour God on Good Friday is to attend church [check service time with your local church [3pm, the hour of Christ's is normal, but not invariable for Good Friday]. If you cannot make the afternoon solemn liturgy, your church may have other services at other times such as Stations of the Cross, or Morning or Evening Prayer. If your church is still closed due to Covid or you cannot make it for another reason, get a livestreamed service instead.  Also, eat frugally [less than normal] because of the solemnity of the day.

T C · Answer

I assume you are paying homage to the day Jesus supposedly died by doing those things ….
But if you want to do that ….make it today.

Jesus died on Wednesday around our 3pm.

Thursday was a high day (holy day) the beginning of the feast of unleavened bread.

He was raised Saturday (the weekly sabbath) sometime between 3pm and dusk.

Three days and 3 nights …72 hours according to Jewish law as “Anon” pointed out.

Matthew 12:40

For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

John · Answer

If that's what God put in your heart, then do it.

River Euphrates · Answer

Not sure what 'God' has to do with any of this.

It would be a good idea to do all of those things if you've got a day off.

Nous · Answer

Easter is set by the first full moon after the vernal equinox. This is the one day in the year when day and night are roughly equal!

It varies by more than a month over the years and so it simply cannot represent the date of anyone's death!!!
It is in fact a combination of several pagan festivals most notably the spring festival.
The name Easter comes from “Eastre” an Anglo-Saxon pagan goddess. Also the Norse goddess,Ostara who took her name from the Teutonic lunar goddess Eostre
Even the Chinese have the festival of Ching Ming where flowers and sweets are put on their ancestors graves!!
The egg and the rabbit are symbols of springtime and rebirth along with the custom of giving flowers etc!!
The Venerable Bede, an early Christian writer pointed out that the Christian church absorbed Pagan practices when it found the population unwilling to give up the festivals. Thus a lot of what Christians now see as Christians practices are in fact pagan!!!
The Pope said last year that Easter should now have a set date to make it Christian!
Fun to watch the Christians worshiping a pagan festival though - makes it just like Christmas when they do the same thing!!!

Anonymous · Answer

Matthew 28:1, Christ was in the tomb 3 days & 3 nights. How do you get 3 days & 3 nights from Friday afternoon to Sunday morning?

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As a sign of respect to God, should I treat Good Friday as a working day by waking up early and cleaning my house?

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