Good Friday - Good Turn

I've read that it could be a corruption of "God's". It says in Jalima's link that the Germans call it Karfreitag, kar being an old German word for sorrow. That's just brought back a long lost memory to me of my mother serving up carlins (a sort of black pea, cooked with vinegar) during Lent. I'd completely forgotten about that. I wonder if the name comes from the same source?

He died that we might be forgiven, he died to make us GOOD

It isn't made very clear in anything I have read.

Sorrowful Friday, Black Friday, Holy Friday, Great Friday are all alternatives.

Here is one explanation:
www.pastoralliturgy.org/resources/WhyistheDayChristDiedCalledGoodFriday.pdf

Wasn't it good because he died to save us all?

Never understood why killing Jesus makes it a good day.
DD keeps asking me that, I don't have the answer.

Then why ask I wonder ?

Okay. Not bothered if you do or not.

I have no need to explain ,when I ask someone to explain something I don't understand I think a 'please ' is kinder than a demand

You don't have to have faith to know that Jesus existed and was killed in a particularly brutal way.

So explain again why it is called Good Friday.

Well said Annie.

Dj, if a person doesn't have faith they wouldn't want to attend church , if a person chooses to attend church there is no reason why they can't do other things too. I accept it's difficult for atheists to realise this, as to calling the day Good Friday, you can choose to call it Friday can you not.

Never understood why killing Jesus makes it a good day.
Holy Friday makes much more sense.

Of course you can do both - or neither. I just prefer the Holy Thursday and Easter Vigil services, to the Good Friday one, but like to mark Good Friday in some way.

Better than doing nothing, particularly for those who are not religious?
I heard somewhere that Good is a corruption of Holy Friday.
It must be better to do something good, rather than leave it as Holy and do nothing.
Well done, Farmor.

Kitty neither carries a jail sentence if not done ?

I agree - but having said that, I've done neither!

I agree with Annie why should it be one or the other?

It is possible to attend church and do some good turn