Tuesday, April 03, 2007
The Most Significant Day in Human History
Q-
Jazz concert on Good Friday?
Is it against the Catholic faith to attend a Jazz concert on the evening of Good Friday? When I was younger, my parents always said we shouldn't go out or do anything on Good Friday evening. I'm now a parent and would like to take my 12 year old son to a jazz concert. I want to know if it's the right thing to do.
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Going to a jazz concert is not an appropriate thing to do on Good Friday.
What is an appropriate thing to do is for the family to forgo radio and TV and read an account of the Lord’s death together instead. You might also pray the Stations of the Cross and/or the five Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary.
Good Friday is the most significant day in the history of the human race.
That God would choose to enter the human race and suffer as He did – to the point of dying on the cross, should matter more to us than anything we can think of.
The meaning of our very lives is the direct result of the Lord’s passion.
Nothing you can give your children could ever be more valuable than your example in showing your love and appreciation to Him for such love.
Fr. Vincent Serpa, O.P.
from here
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2 comments:
Good question, and even a better answer =)
I hope you have a fantastic Easter, Antonia, always praying for you. =)
I remember as a young child my brother and I were fighting on Good Friday. My mom was fed up with us and had us stand in the dining room with arms outstretched and told us to leave them there.... we did.. for what seemed forever.. She was so angry and I got her point immediately. We were to feel what Jesus did- if even for a blink of time- and realize what we were doing was wrong. What an impression that made on me. I think about it frequently- and even more now that I have children and they ask me about Jesus hanging on the cross.
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