Good Friday – Somber Traditions and Very Quiet Days

I Can’t Sleep

Benjamin Boster & Glassbox Media

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Good Friday observances, fasting rules, and calendar math—perfectly solemn content to lull you into gentle, reverent sleep. Ideal for insomnia, not introspection. Want More? Request a topic: https://www.icantsleeppodcast.com/request-a-topic Listen ad-free & support: https://icantsleep.supportingcast.fm/ Shop sleep-friendly products: https://www.icantsleeppodcast.com/sponsors This content is derived from the Wikipedia article on Good Friday, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license. Read the full article: Wikipedia - Good Friday. Coming Up on the I Can’t Sleep Podcast 🌍 Earth Day – A quiet celebration of our noisy planet. 🍡 Mochi – Sticky, squishy, and surprisingly sleep-inducing. 🐚 Sand Dollars – Nature’s flat little mysteries. New episodes drop Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday at 6 PM MT. Until then… happy sleeping. 💤 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:56.3	restful night's sleep. Welcome to the I Can't Sleep podcast where I help you learn a little
1:04.5	and sleep a lot. I'm your host Benjamin Boster and today's episode is about Good Friday.
1:16.4	Good Friday, also known as Black Friday, Holy Friday, Great Friday, Great and Holy Friday,
1:24.1	or Friday of the Passion of the Lord.
1:27.1	Is a solemn Christian holy day commemorating the
1:29.9	crucifixion of Jesus and his death at Calvary, Galgotha.
1:35.2	It is observed during Holy Week as part of the Paschal Tridium.
1:40.6	Members of many Christian denominations, including the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran, Anglican, Methodist, Oriental Orthodox, United Protestant, and some reformed traditions, including certain continental reformed, Presbyterian, and Congregationalist churches, observe Good Friday
2:03.6	with fasting and church services.
2:06.6	In many Catholic, Lucerne, Anglican, and Methodist churches, the services of the great
2:13.6	three hours agony is held from noon until 3 p.m. The hours the Bible records
2:20.0	darkness covering the land until Jesus' death on the cross. Communicants of the Moravian Church
2:27.3	have a Good Friday tradition of cleaning gravestones in Moravian cemeteries.
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