S/O Easter- a coworker wished me

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Happy Good Friday on Friday.

Is that a thing people do? Even when I was heavily involved in church I never had anyone say that.

I'm not going to be able to keep up if we're now wishing each other happy minor holidays.

Happy Columbus Day!

Happy National Mustard Day!

[blondemoment123]

I had a client wish me a happy Good Friday. Weird, but I'm sure he meant well.


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[ginger]

It's weird because it's a solom day ment for silent reflection; although there is joy on Easter Sunday. Maybe she was skipping ahead?

[txgrandma]

I have never been told this, and I am in the Bible Belt.

[lime]

Weird. I've never heard this before.

[wildfloweragain]

I've heard it as more of a happy day off from work.

Fun fact: MIL has dinner at her house every Sun night and on holidays. I was at the mall once while I was dating H and got a call from him saying that his mom was upset I wasn't at dinner. It MIGHT have been labor day, but I think it was something even more obscure, like arbor day.

[dexteroni]

I've never had anyone wish me Happy Good Friday. I mean, for anyone who is up on the significance of the day, it's actually a pretty solemn day, not a "happy wishes" one. When my mom was little, they weren't allowed to watch TV or listen to the radio that day. It was to be spent in solemn reflection.

But an older lady wished me "Happy Resurrection" the other day instead of Happy Easter. That was a first for me.

[VillainV]

Yes, that's odd. It's not a day for celebration or happiness.

[BaliHai]

Weird.

Lol at happy national mustard day.

[southpoint]

Good Friday is an important day on the Christian calendar. But it is not a happy day.

[papie]

Lol no. It is a mourning day.

[papie]

Oh and we normally say "happy resurrection" or "best wishes for Easter" on Good Friday but that is a Greek thing. We also wear black or dark colours to church.

[flex]

I think "Death, where is thy sting?" would be a more appropriate thing on Good Friday.

[gretchenindisguise]

I heard this when I lived in the middle. I just say it back to them.

And carrots I'm jealous, I did not get a 59 on Friday

[janegold]

Apr 20, 2014 14:15:04 GMT -5 papie said:

Oh and we normally say "happy resurrection" or "best wishes for Easter" on Good Friday but that is a Greek thing. We also wear black or dark colours to church.

Christos Anesti!

(thank you MBFGW.)

[papie]

Apr 20, 2014 14:57:08 GMT -5 janegold said:

Apr 20, 2014 14:15:04 GMT -5 papie said:

Oh and we normally say "happy resurrection" or "best wishes for Easter" on Good Friday but that is a Greek thing. We also wear black or dark colours to church.

Christos Anesti!

(thank you MBFGW.)

CHristos Anesti means Jesus is resurrected, so we say that on Easter Sunday or after midnight mass Saturday night.
On Good Friday we say "kali Anastasi"

[dexteroni]

Apr 20, 2014 14:15:04 GMT -5 papie said:

Oh and we normally say "happy resurrection" or "best wishes for Easter" on Good Friday but that is a Greek thing.

Oh maybe that's why I was wished Happy Resurrection. It was on Friday. Huh! I actually know quite a few Greeks but I've never heard any if them say that. Christos Anesti, definitely.

[Captain Serious]

I am finding more and more Christians who actually celebrate Good Friday with joy, because of the belief that it was on that day, when Jesus died, that sin was conquered, even if Jesus did not rise again until Easter Sunday. These tend to be the Lutheran Missouri Synod Christians and Southern Baptists I know.

The Catholic and Coptic Orthodox Christians I grew up with definitely see Good Friday as a solemn, reflective day and Easter as the day of celebration.