Good Friday: An Anglican Perspective
Good Friday stops everything. No flowers, no music, just a bare altar and silence. In this countercultural observance, the worst day in history is called “good”—the day divine love triumphed on the cross.
Good Friday stops everything. No flowers, no music, just a bare altar and silence. In this countercultural observance, the worst day in history is called “good”—the day divine love triumphed on the cross.
Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the season of Lent: a time of repentance, fasting, and prayer, in preparation for the great feast of the resurrection.
The Anglican calendar is not an end in itself. It is a means of grace — a structure that orders the Church’s attention toward Christ, week after week and year after year. The feasts celebrate what God has done. The fasts make room for honesty about what we still need.