Comments on: Holy Week–Good Friday

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:51:37 +0000

In answer to 14:

Mervyn Burtch, a Welsh composer composed a setting in 1975.

By: manaen

manaen — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:04:44 +0000

I also am struck by the last lines — thank you for this Rosetti “stone.”
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This echoes a passage that well describes my own experience:
26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. — Ezk 36
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I realized sometime later that only a stony heart can (and must) be broken: a fleshy heart yields and stretches.

By: Tracy M

Tracy M — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 01:09:14 +0000

Amen.

By: Kevinf

Kevinf — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:04:13 +0000

I don’t read enough poetry anymore, so I especially appreciate this series. Thanks, Kristine.

By: Cathy

Cathy — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:54:01 +0000

Thanks, Kristine, for this most edifying series.

By: Struwelpeter

Struwelpeter — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:22:04 +0000

Has this ever been set to music?

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:46:02 +0000

Hugh B. Brown gave a radio address entitled “History’s Most Eventful Week” in which he used the term Holy Week.

By: meems

meems — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:25:06 +0000

I’ve just been doing research on the term “Good Friday!”

As we meet on Fridays here in the “Kingdom” and I was the main Sacrament speaker today, I gave my talk on the notions of Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, and Good Friday. I had about 15 people come up and tell me how much they appreciated the talk! I think we do use the term as individuals, but if you look the term up in the Encyclopedia of Mormonism or do a search for it on the church website, you’ll pretty much find nothin’.

By: Kevin Barney

Kevin Barney — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:47:12 +0000

I realize it seems counterintuitive to a lot of people, Mormons included, to call the day Good Friday. We’re not really sure where that name came from; there seem to be three main theories as to why it is called “Good” Friday in English-speaking lands:

1. Some argue that good is archaic for holy.

2. Others argue that good is an archaism for God (as in the expression good-bye, “God be with you”).

3. Still others understand the expression theologically, for the result of the atonement that was effected on that day.

But hey, if you don’t like Good Friday, you could follow the convention used in other languages:

From Wikipedia:

The Dutch name Goede Vrijdag translates as “Good Friday”. Other languages refer to this day in different ways (most often as Holy Friday).

In the Holy Land, Good Friday is known as “Great Friday.” In German it is “Karfreitag”, an Old German word meaning “Friday of lamentation”, although this meaning is not obvious to speakers of modern German. In Armenia it is called “High Friday (???? ??????)”. In Russia it is called “Passion Friday” (????????? ????? / ????????? ???????). In Ethiopia it is called Friday of the Crucifixion (arib siqilat)

Great Friday: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece (?????? ????????? / Megáli Paraskeví), Hungary, Macedonia, Malta (Il-?img?a l-Kbira), Poland (Wielki Pi?tek), Lithuania, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and in the Eastern Orthodox Church generally; Sri Lanka (Maha Sikurada); Indonesia (Jumat Agung)

Holy Friday: Latin America, Spain (Viernes Santo), France (Vendredi Saint), Italy (venerdì santo), Portugal, Brazil (Sexta-Feira Santa), Philippines (Mahal na Araw or Biyernes Santo), Vietnam (Th? sáu Tu?n Thánh), Japan

Long Friday: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Faroe Islands, Iceland

Day of Christ’s Suffering: Chinese-speaking areas
Sad Friday: Arabic-speaking locals

Good Friday (English language) but Aoine Chéasta Passion Friday (Irish Language): Ireland

In some more secular communities Good Friday has been erroneously referred to as “Easter Friday”. However, the following Friday (after Easter) is the correct day to be named Easter Friday.

By: Martin Willey

Martin Willey — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:32:39 +0000

Kristine: Thank you for the Holy Week (I do use the term) poems. They have been a wonderful way to mark a sacred occassion. I have saved many in my files for future use and reflection.