The Christian festival of Easter is celebrates the resurrection of Christ after having been crucified on Good Friday. Being a day of feast and traditions, the celebrations of the day are marked with a lot of ancient customs that many today just don’t understand. The deal with the eggs and Easter are one such mystery to anyone not familiar with ancient tradition. We try to explain why we have eggs at Easter.
The Christian holiday of Good Friday is known in both the Christian as well as the non-Christian world as the day when Jesus Christ was crucified and the day when he died on the cross at Calvary. Good Friday is one of the most important religious holidays in the Christian calendar and it marks the Friday before Easter Sunday when the forty0day long period of fasting, penance and prayer, i.e., Lent, officially ends. Even though the day is officially marked as a holiday in secular and Christian nations, some people are not too aware of the reason behind the celebration of the day itself. Here are a few reasons behind the celebration of Good Friday.
It was the day when Jesus Christ was crucified! So why would someone call it Good Friday when the entire world was mourning over his death? And why do they still call it Good Friday in spite of knowing the entire story? Here is a plausible explanation for the same.
