is good friday a federal holiday?
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nope. Easter is a religious holiday. The 1st Amendment prevents the State from recognizing one religion over another.
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Good Friday is the day that Jesus died so we celebrate it in honoring of his death. Here are some websites where you can read a little more about it.\nhttp://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/entry/GoodFrid\nhttp://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06643a.htm\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Friday
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Thanks giving day  is on  Thursday, November 23, 2006 in the United States this year.  Thanksgiving is a U.S. holiday in late November that commemorates the good harvest of the Pilgrims in 1621.
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Valentines Day is Not a National holiday.  Banks, governement offices, etc do not close.  \n\nThe holiday is for the purpose of selling things.\n\nCheck these two sites for more info.
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You are right and it is a real test for Christians.\nRemember Goverments have not helped either, 14 years ago in my country the Government deregulated sunday trading laws and made it legal for shops to trade on sunday.at first employers gave double time but after a time went back to flat rate so sunday was not special to them.  Gods law is broken.
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theologians best guess is that the nme is derived from "God's Friday"(the same way "good-bye came from "God be with ye"). In some countries Good Friday is known as Long Friday, Silent Friday, or Holy Friday.
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So you read my answer, didn't you? Thanks...\n\nWe don't celebrate it coz our Great Prophet Mohammed (pbuh) didn't celebrate it, so as his followers, we don't celebrate it too. \n\nIf we'd like to thank to God, we dont have to wait until thanksgiving or other holidays. We can do that in our Shalat, in our pray, or by sharing with the others, at anytimr
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no mail on federal holidays.\n\nwww.firstgov.gov
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Then you should ask those who are Roman Catholics, maybe they know more about it. But why do you ask?\n\nI overheard my friend said that holy Friday celebration begin after the God's rebirth but I forgotten the details about it. Maybe it could be wrong because I wasn't quite listening when he was telling the other person about it.
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Good Friday is always the Friday before Easter.  To properly understand the nature of Good Friday.  Some research is required to find out why Easter is scheduled the way that it is.\n\nAccording to Newadvent.org and an excerpt from the Catholic Encyclopedia, Easter will always fall some time between March 22 and April 25.  This would make Good Friday sometime between March 20 and April 23.\n\nSee the second paragraph in the link below under The Feast section for a more detailed explanation.
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I'm working today, just as I have every day of the week for the last 3 1/2 months.\nI do not think Good Friday should be declared a holiday (no pun intended).  The USA is basically a secular nation, as it should be.  Look around the world and see what kind of life people lead in theocracies like Saudi Arabia and Iran, and even in places like the Philippines where the church greatly influences government policy.\nPeople like James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, though they were Christians and deists, recognized the importance of separating church and state; Jefferson created the concept for us.  They would blanch at the thought of making religious festivities into official holidays.\nThe last time religion played a major role in the politics of the West, it was known as the "Dark Ages."
19693
Well, both Saturday and Sunday are holy days in some religions - time for rest. Hence, the weekend has formed around this.
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President's Day is a public holiday and the Post office closes as a government agency. "Washington's Birthday" is the designated holiday in section 6103(a) of title 5 of the United States Code, which is the law that specifies holidays for Federal employees.
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God gave us one day per week to rest and spend time with Him. It is the last day of the week which is Saturday on our calender. On Good Friday we remember the crucifixion, \nhis side was pierced so they could take him down from the cross because the next day was the Sabbath. Then He rose on Sunday and we celebrate new life and a new week.\nFor me it's Friday sunset to Saturday sunset.
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Lucky or unlucky, Friday is one of the most popular days in the week. TGIF is the commonly used acronym meaning "Thank Goodness It's Fiday!". There is even a popular restaurant that goes by the name, claiming that whenever you eat there it is Friday. The love for the day is undoubtedly engendered by the fact that in the Western World it is the last workday of the week. \nIn predominantly Moslem countries, Friday is a holy day, a day to gather in the mosques at noon for prayers and to spend the day in religious contemplation. \n\nThe name of the day is derived from yet another Norse God (in this case a goddess), Frigga. She was believed to be the wife of Odin and was the goddess of marriage and the hearth. The Roman's had named this day for their goddess of beauty, Venus. They called it "dies veneris". When the Germanic tribes invaded England they imposed their goddess upon the day meant to honor Venus. The day was called frigedaeg, it has been corrupted over the centuries (since the 500's) to be "Friday". \n\nSince early times a Friday that falls on the 13th day of a month has been thought to be unlucky. Historians posit that this may be because there were thirteen persons present at the Last Supper of Christ and that this number proved unlucky; the following day (a Friday) Jesus was crucified. Find out when Friday the 13th falls for the rest of the year. \n\nThe Friday crucifiction spawned another Eastertime holiday known as Good Friday. The appellation, "good", was likely a corruption of the word, "God". So that Good Friday was originally, God's Friday, the day Christians believe God showed his love for the world by relinquishing his son.
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Mardi Gras and the german "Fasching" are about the same thing, there are many european countries celebrating this. As the people before me already wrote, yes, Fat Tuesday is the last day before the fasting for lent starts. The reason why you dress up in costumes is that it's an old european tradition to scare the winter ghosts out, so spring can come. That's why they used scary masks for this. Nowadays it's just for fun and partying!
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That's because now that it's a federal holiday, it has turned into a secular celebration. Christians have stolen practically all of their holiday traditions from pagan ritual.\n\nDo you honestly think Jesus was born on December 25th?\n\nChristmas isn't an exclusively Christian holiday, little miss possessive. Do you want us to stop eating, drinking, having parties, and being merry simply because you don't like the idea of us non-believers celebrating a pagan holiday?\n\nFor a Christian, you sure are spiteful. Tsk tsk.