Good Friday Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Methodist Church=== [[File:Minister prostrates at the start of United Methodist Good Friday liturgy.jpg|thumb|A United Methodist minister [[Prostration|prostrates]] at the start of the Good Friday liturgy at Holy Family Church, in accordance with the rubrics in the [[The United Methodist Book of Worship (1992)|Book of Worship]]. The [[processional cross]] is veiled in black, the liturgical colour associated with Good Friday in Methodist Churches.]] [[File:Chancel of Houston Memorial UMC on Good Friday.jpg|thumb|left|[[Stripping of the Altar|Altar and cross veiled]] in a Methodist church on Maundy Thursday in preparation for Good Friday.]] Many [[Methodism|Methodist denominations]] commemorate Good Friday with fasting,<ref name="RipleyDana1883"/><ref name="BaysWacker2010">{{cite book|last1=Bays|first1=Daniel H|last2=Wacker|first2=Grant|title=The Foreign Missionary Enterprise at Home: Explorations in North American Cultural History|year=2010|publisher=University of Alabama Press|isbn=978-0817356408|page=277}}</ref> as well as a [[service of worship]] based on the Seven Last Words from the Cross; this liturgy is known as the [[Three Hours' Agony|Three Hours Devotion]] as it starts at noon and concludes at 3 pm, the latter being the time that Jesus died on the cross.<ref>{{cite book |title=The United Methodist Book of Worship: Regular Edition Black |date=2016 |publisher=United Methodist Publishing House |isbn=978-1426735004 |page=365 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Reflector-Good Friday">{{cite web|url=http://www.reflector.com/local/content/news/stories/2008/03/21/GoodFriday.html |title=Christians mark Good Friday |publisher=The Daily Reflector |access-date=21 March 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080330184414/http://www.reflector.com/local/content/news/stories/2008/03/21/GoodFriday.html |archive-date=30 March 2008 }}</ref> On Maundy Thursday, the altar and the cross [[Stripping of the Altar|are usually veiled]] in black for Good Friday, as black is the liturgical colour for Good Friday in the United Methodist Church. A wooden cross may sit in front of the bare chancel.<ref>{{cite book |title=The United Methodist Book of Worship: Regular Edition Black |date=2016 |publisher=United Methodist Publishing House |isbn=978-1426735004 |page=363 |language=en|quote=...a plain wooden cross may now be brought into the church and placed in the sight of the people. ... During Silent Meditation and The Reproaches, persons may be invited to come forward informally to kneel briefly before the cross or touch it.}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page