Good Fri­day, do you know the ori­gin?

The start of spring sea­son means Easter Sun­day is ap­proach­ing, but there is a hol­i­day that is­n’t so rec­og­nized that should also be ac­knowl­edged, Good Fri­day. Even though the hol­i­day is­n’t talked about as much, the his­tory is just as rel­e­vant. 

Un­like Christ­mas and Easter, which have so many spe­cial tra­di­tions, Good Fri­day has be­come to be known of its re­li­gious im­pli­ca­tion, not led to a sur­face of spe­cific cus­toms and prac­tices. 

Easter eggs have long been a sym­bol of life and re­birth. Paint­ing and dy­ing eggs pre-dates the Chris­t­ian re­li­gion. 

Good Fri­day is cel­e­brated the Fri­day be­fore Easter Sun­day, many dif­fer­ent peo­ple spend the day by fast­ing and at­tend­ing church ser­vices. Cel­e­brated since 100 AD as a day of fast­ing, Good Fri­day gained im­por­tance as a im­por­tant day in the lat­ter years of the fourth cen­tury.

Peo­ple who cel­e­brate Good Fri­day & Easter will spend an av­er­age of $151 per per­son for cloth­ing, candy, dec­o­ra­tions and more ac­cord­ing to CNN. And those who are not cel­e­brat­ing will still spend an av­er­age of $19 for Easter re­lated things.

“Good Fri­day and Easter are al­ways good hol­i­days for me be­cause I get to spend those days with my fam­ily”. Mitchel Gold­man says, a Maryville stu­dent.

Ac­tiv­i­ties peo­ple do on this hol­i­day in­cludes, vis­it­ing fam­ily and friends, cook­ing hol­i­day meals, go­ing to church, and Easter egg hunts. Ac­cord­ing to the Na­tional Con­fec­tion­ers As­so­ci­a­tion, two-thirds of Amer­i­can par­ents will cre­ate an Easter bas­ket for their chil­dren, and 90% of Amer­i­cans will dis­trib­ute choco­late and other candy.

For more in­for­ma­tion about Good Fri­day —>https://​www.cnn.com/​2019/​04/​19/​world/​good-fri­day-tra­di­tions-around-the-world-trnd/​in­dex.html