Good Friday
What it commemorates
Good Friday commemorates the Passion and death of Christ on the Cross.
Place in the liturgical year
It is the Friday of Holy Week, two days before Easter.
In the 1962 Latin Mass Calendar
In the 1962 calendar it is kept as a day of the first class: Feria sexta – In Passione et Morte Domini.
Modern Roman Calendar
The Modern Roman Calendar ranks it as a celebration with precedence over solemnities; its ranks differ from the four classes of 1962.