Good Friday
The cross doesn’t make great the one who is hung on it, but Jesus is he who redeems the cross and gives a meaning to it

Good Friday is a severe day for Christians, a day which is still felt as an “anti-festivity”, which is still able to isolate tragically Jesus’ passion and death from his resurrection. When Christians go to their Lord, they are always brought back to the one event of the passion-death-resurrection. But today what is meditated, thought of, and celebrated, is the passion, culminated in the death. It is the cross which dominates the liturgy with its shadow and which, by imposing itself, makes us think of the resurrection just as hope, just as a wait. Peculiarity of the Christian faith is to have the crucified Jesus as its core message and to feel Jesus’ crucifixion as God’s most revealing tale. What do Christians commemorate every year on Good Friday?

They commemorate what happened in Jerusalem, the holy city and the heart of the Jewish faith, in the 30th year of our era on Friday, April 7th. Jesus from Nazareth — a rabbi and a prophet who had aroused a movement around him and who used to be followed by a little itinerant community composed of a dozen men and some women — was arrested, sentenced and put to death through the torment of the crucifixion. From a historical point of view we can say that Jesus was arrested on the initiative of some high priests, the hierocracy of Jerusalem, because of some of his deeds and some of his words, such as some messianic traits in his deeds, the passionate expulsion of the sellers from the Temple, the prophetical polemic against the religious men, especially the Sadducees.