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(Western Churches) (Eastern Churches) |date = (Western Churches) (Eastern Churches) |date = (Western Churches) (Eastern Churches) |duration = 1 day |frequency = annual |observances = Worship services, prayer and vigil services, fasting, almsgiving |celebrations = No traditional celebrations |type = Christian |significance = Commemorates the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ |related to = Passover, Christmas (which celebrates the birth of Jesus), Septuagesima, Quinquagesima, Shrove Tuesday, Ash Wednesday, Lent, Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, and Holy Saturday which lead up to Easter, Easter Sunday (primarily), Ascension, Pentecost, Whit Monday, Trinity Sunday, and Corpus Christi which follow it. }} Good Friday is a Christian religious holiday commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and his death at Calvary. The holiday is observed during Holy Week as part of the Paschal Triduum on the Friday preceding Easter Sunday, and may coincide with the Jewish observance of Passover. It is also known as Holy Friday, Great Friday, Black Friday, or Easter Friday, though the last term properly refers to the Friday in Easter week. Good Friday is a widely-instituted legal holiday in many national governments around the world, including in most Western countries (especially among Anglican and Catholic nations) as well as in 12 U.S. states. Some governments, such as Germany, have laws prohibiting certain acts, such as dancing and horse racing, that are seen as profaning the solemn nature of the day. ==Etymology== The etymology of the term "good" in the context of Good Friday is contested. Some sources claim "good" to simply mean ''pious'' or ''holy'', while others contend that it is a corruption of "God Friday". The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' supports the first etymology, giving "of a day or season observed as holy by the church" as an archaic sense of ''good'' (''good'', adj. 8c), and providing examples of ''good tide'' meaning "Christmas" or "Shrove Tuesday", and ''Good Wednesday'' meaning the Wednesday in Holy Week. In German-speaking countries, the Good Friday is generally referred as ''Karfreitag'' (''Kar'' from Old High German ''kara''‚ "bewail", "grieve"‚ "mourn", Freitag for "Friday"): Mourning Friday. The ''Kar'' prefix is an ancestor of the English word care in the sense of cares and woes; it meant mourning. The day is also known as ''Stiller Freitag'' ("Silent Friday") and ''Hoher Freitag'' ("High Friday, Holy Friday"). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Good Friday」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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