Good Friday
Holy Week can be a very difficult week for modern Catholics. There's a lot of fasting involved, which is a custom most people are not familiar with. As a general rule, Holy Week is a period of intense prayer and meditation of the coming of our Lord's Passion. It also is a time of recommended fasting in addition to what we gave up or took on for Lent. This is especially true on Good Friday. On this day, Jesus died and we are asked by the Church to commemorate it by fasting from meat all day and only having one full meal and two smaller meals. As a human, this is hard. As a member of modern society, it's very hard. I went to a frozen yogurt place with my youth group this past Wednesday. As a devoted Catholic, I chose to abstain from purchasing anything, seeing as it was Holy Week. I was the only one. This isn't to say that everyone else is a bad Catholic, they aren't. It's just that most people don't recognize the importance of what we celebrate this week....