Since the 3rd century, the English and Dutch have used the term "Good Friday" which etymologists believe is likely a corruption of the Germanic word "Goodes" meaning "God" or "Saint". The rest of the world calls it "Holy Friday". The term Good Friday comes from the secondary meaning of the word good that is defined as 'pious' or 'holy'.

Another common folk etymology analyses "Good Friday" incorrectly as a corruption of the hypothetical, imagined term God Friday, similarly to the "linguistically correct" derivation of goodbye from a contraction of 'God be with ye' In Old English.

But putting aside the history of the words, theologians teach us that in the terrible death of Jesus, what is proclaimed is God's good purpose to love and redeem the world. And although it is a day of sorrow, it is considered "good" (good/holy) because it represents Jesus' voluntary sacrifice for the salvation of humanity. Therefore on Good Friday we remember the death of Jesus on a cross, awaiting his resurrection on Easter Sunday.

Many Christians are familiar with the so-called Stations of the Cross. If you walk into a Catholic, Lutheran, or Anglican parish church, you are likely to see a series of icons or small carvings set up along the north and south walls of the pilgrimage route.

Each one depicts a moment of Jesus' passion. Jesus' sentencing, his shouldering his cross, his meeting the women of Jerusalem, his stripping, his being nailed to the cross, all the martyrdom while he was nailed to the cross and so on, continuing through his being laid to rest in the tomb.

Originally pilgrims observed these "stations" in Jerusalem, on the Via Dolorosa, the "sorrowful way" from the fortress Antonia in Jerusalem to Golgota outside the city gates. But they exported them around the world so that even those who could not make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land could still pray through them during Lent and Holy Week especially.

Finally, let's also unravel another big mystery about the Stations of the Cross of Jesus that has also intrigued many people for a long time throughout history. ¿WTF does that INRI sign over the cross stand for? Did you know that it simply means: "Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum" or in other words: ¿Jesus the Nazarene, King of the Jews?

I.N.R.I.

And last but not least and having already explained everything that I have explained above. Here's what Jesus personally asked me and told me in a private conversation we had recently and which actually is what really motivated me to write this post. ¡Believe it or not!

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