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Manuel Penichet P

viernes santo
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Good Friday is one of the main celebrations of Christianity within the Holy week. This day recalls the death of Jesús of Nazareth on the cross. The Catholic Church instructs the faithful keep fasting and abstinence from meat as penance.

  




Felipe Lorenzo del Río

In our Christian cultural context in which religion has dominated until recently all aspects of life still remain public religious strongholds with the acceptance of most of the world. One of these is the Holy week, whose days Saints, are called traditionally Holy Monday, Friday Holy... because the Church and Christian believers remember the passion and death of Christ. In the liturgical calendar of the Church the Holy week festivities are mobile, i.e. not is always held on the same dates, because according to provisions that come from the Council of Trent Holy week has held coinciding with the first moon after the birth of the spring, perhaps because Christ died when there was a full moon in spring.

  



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