Did you know that the earliest Christians were talking about the Apostles and the Apostolic Father that came right after them

celebrated

Good Friday the Friday before Paska or Easter

with a black fast no food no calories

This wasn't a medieval superstition. It wasn't pagan

It was profoundly Christian and we know this because there is a great saint a Bishop name

Saint Irenaeus of Leon and he writes the Bishop of Rome Saint Victor the Pope of Rome a letter and it's dated to either

190 or 191 so we're about a hundred years after the death of Saint John the Apostle and he explains how the earliest Christians

fasted on

Good Friday. Here is the quote from that letter

Quote for the controversy is not merely as regards the day of Paska Easter

but also regards the form itself of the fast for some consider themselves bound a fast one day

Others two days others still more while others 40 hours the diurnal and nocturnal hours

They measure out together as their fasting day and this variety among the observers of the fasts had not its origin in our time

But long before and that of our predecessors some of whom probably being not very accurate and their observance of it

Handed down to posterity the custom as it had through simplicity or private fancy being introduced amongst them

And yet nevertheless all these lived in peace with one another and we also keep peace together

Saint Aaron aess says that they all keep peace. They don't fight but there is some variation already

in the second century some before the resurrection of Christ the annual celebration

fast 24 hours some fast

48 hours and some fast

40 hours and it has come down in tradition over

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