| If Good Friday and Easter Monday occur outside the standard break they are taken as a freestanding long weekend. |
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| According to today's Daily Telegraph, it used to be considered very unlucky for Good Friday to fall on March 25, Lady Day. |
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| Good Friday is celebrated with a traditional breakfast of codfish cakes and hot-cross buns. |
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| Instead, he has produced a mealy-mouthed, begrudging and long overdue response to the commitments made under the Good Friday Agreement. |
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| It was a chilly March day in 1972, the eve of Good Friday, and the Queen shivered as she first entered York Minster. |
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| This the Cross used during Good Friday services for the unnailing ceremony. |
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| But a traffic warden, randomly checking roads in Chessington on Good Friday, slapped four tickets on to cars belonging to residents. |
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| In other moves, racecourse betting will be allowed on Good Friday and Christmas Day for the first time. |
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| Given that Jesus died for our sins on Good Friday, during Lent sin is also given attention. |
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| A nationwide road safety campaign was carried out from Good Friday to Easter Monday. |
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| The only days the shop closed were Good Friday and Christmas Day, when papers weren't published. |
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| On Good Friday she dropped in on her parents but left in a hurry without saying goodbye to her mother. |
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| As Good Friday is a public holiday, the only people parking in the roads were residents and their families. |
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| On Good Friday, mid-table Cheltenham came to town hoping to improve on a run of five defeats in their last six games. |
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| The only days on which play did not take place were Christmas Day and Good Friday. |
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| This is part of a series which will continue every Friday night until Good Friday. |
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| I do not agree with trading on Christmas Day or Good Friday, and I have made that quite clear. |
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| On Good Friday, a religious day, I walked my dog as usual in our local park. |
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| Now I am hoping to perform the Chaconne with chorales on Good Friday in our small church. |
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| The ceremonies continued on Good Friday and came to a close on Easter Saturday night. |
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| But Good Friday was a lovely day and maybe lots of children went to the seaside instead. |
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| The airport pub was always a port of call for many on a Good Friday, when it was one of the few bars that could legally open. |
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| On Good Friday the group of 11 took part in the challenge to boost funds for the Tsunami Appeal. |
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| The Good Friday procession, which symbolises Christ's path to his crucifixion, was modified in deference to the Pope's age and health. |
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| In the Brabantine calendar, the year began not on January 1 but on Good Friday, and official documents were dated accordingly. |
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| The only four days when they would not be in use would be Christmas and Boxing days, Good Friday and Easter Monday. |
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| A cross, or sometimes the Host, was placed in the sepulchre from Good Friday to Easter Sunday. |
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| Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Day are the three most important days in the Church year. |
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| Presumably he couldn't resist playing a home town gig on Good Friday, taking him home for the Easter hols. |
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| Traditionally served on Good Friday or Easter morning, hot cross buns are small and slightly sweet yeast buns with a rich history. |
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| Verse 27 invites us to bind the festal procession with branches, gathering up Palm Sunday as well as Good Friday. |
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| Thus Good Friday was the day when Jesus was crucified, Holy Saturday when he stayed in the tomb and Easter Sunday when he resurrected. |
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| Preparing music for Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday masses took the entire afternoon and most of the night. |
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| On Good Friday, continental Europeans commemorate that Christ was crucified and died to absolve our sins and give us eternal salvation. |
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| Bartlett's Good Friday sermon on a Johannine text demonstrates well how preaching may be shaped by a particular understanding of the good news. |
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| Germany's legal holidays include New Year's Day, Good Friday, Easter, Pentecost, Labor Day, and Christmas. |
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| There are also signs that senior supporters of Trimble in the party are now reappraising the Good Friday Agreement. |
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| The national holidays are New Year's Day, Independence Day, Good Friday, St. John's Night or Midsummer Day, and Christmas. |
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| He will be putting his best foot forward and walking the 30 miles from Bolton on Good Friday. |
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| And they despise the Good Friday agreement, which they see as bowing the knee to terrorism. |
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| There was the Good Friday service, a trip to confession on Holy Saturday and, of course, Mass on Easter Sunday. |
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| The Easter ceremonies on Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday were very well attended. |
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| A number of Northern Ireland parties have expressed concerns that the referendum is capable of overruling the Good Friday Agreement. |
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| He went on to explain that Good Friday this year fell on March 25, the Feast Of The Annunciation, also known as Lady Day. |
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| In the long term, he suggested a renegotiation of the Good Friday Agreement. |
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| Regular strollers take note that a 10 km charity walk takes place in Lisselton on Good Friday. |
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| I can state for a fact that my neighbour will come out of hibernation to plant his annual crop of potatoes on Good Friday. |
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| The first part consists of an antiphonal chant from the Service for the Thursday Preceding Good Friday. |
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| Children can take part in an Easter Trail on Good Friday and Easter Sunday at East Riddlesden Hall. |
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| Other religious holidays include Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter, and Ascension Day. |
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| David celebrated on Good Friday last, with a party enjoyed by all in attendance. |
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| The Good Friday 1998 power sharing agreement led to a ceasefire by most of the paramilitary organisations. |
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| The British Government gave a guarded welcome to the statement while stressing the need for the Good Friday Agreement to be implemented in full. |
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| The cruiser fleet was refloated at the club slipway on Good Friday last and the masts were stepped on Saturday morning. |
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| It would have been already put up, but would be sheeted over in respect of Good Friday, then opened in all its loud raucous noisy shining glory on Easter Saturday. |
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| One party's negotiator says his abiding memory of the Good Friday talks was of her walking the corridors shoeless, wigless and carrying a bottle of champagne in her hand. |
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| So it is back to square one unless the Good Friday Agreement holds. |
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| Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter, Ascension Day, and Corpus Christi are recognized as national holidays and are observed according to the religious calendar. |
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| At noon on Good Friday the Passion and Death of Our Lord will be remembered with the Stations of the Cross being enacted by the pupils of Scoil Ide Naofa. |
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| Don't forget to tune in to Bach's St John's Passion on Good Friday. |
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| Redcliffe Festival of the Sails On Good Friday Suttons Beach celebrates the start of the Brisbane to Gladstone Yacht Race with a colourful beachside bash. |
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| Work that involved hammering or noise was not undertaken on Good Friday. |
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| Good Friday brought glorious weather for the carrying of the cross from Marie Villas in Burren Hill to St Mary's Church prior to the Stations of the Cross at 3pm. |
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| He was released in 1999 under the Good Friday Agreement, only to be taken back to jail in August 2000 for allegedly stirring up rivalries among loyalists. |
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| Easter is a week-long observance of strict religious rituals culminating in Good Friday, a midnight mass on Holy Saturday, and a mass at dawn on Easter Sunday. |
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| According to superstition, hot cross buns and loaves baked on Good Friday never went mouldy, and were sometimes kept as charms from one year to the next. |
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| It was the last week of Lent and it was time to prepare for Palm or Passion Sunday and then, Maundy Thursday and then Good Friday and finally Easter Sunday. |
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| Through thirty years of setbacks, false dawns, raised and disappointed hopes, he kept at the peace process until it bore fruit in the Good Friday Agreement. |
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| The Good Friday agreement's plebiscitary clauses in Northern Ireland are also rife with inflammatory possibilities, jeopardizing the losers' future. |
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| Good Friday and Easter Sunday continue to have massive relevance. |
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| He was against the Anglo-Irish agreement of 1985 and the Good Friday agreement of 1998, and he has made his name by excoriating the Protestant leaders who endorsed them. |
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| Since the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, the nearby Lisburn Road has developed into the city's most exclusive shopping strip. |
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| On Good Friday responsories will be sung in their purest form, the Gregorian chant. |
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| One thought back to the original presentations when Tomas Victoria wrote his 12 Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday and Good Friday. |
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| A peace settlement for Northern Ireland, known as the Good Friday Agreement, was approved in 1998 in referendums north and south of the border. |
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| The Good Friday Agreement relied on the support of a majority of unionists and a majority of nationalists in order for it to operate. |
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| Stone was jailed for life the following year but freed 11 years later under the Good Friday Agreement. |
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| The hot cross bun is a popular British sweet bun traditionally eaten on Good Friday, but are now eaten all year round. |
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| The IRA Ceasefire in 1994 and the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 have given investors increased confidence to invest in Belfast. |
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| The songs run liturgically from Good Friday with Christmas People the last song on the album. |
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| Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday are sometimes referred to as the Easter Triduum. |
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| It is the fifth day of Holy Week, and is preceded by Holy Wednesday and followed by Good Friday. |
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| By about 2005, in phase with implementation of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, remaining controls were definitively removed. |
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| The remaining provisions of the Act still in force in Northern Ireland were repealed under the terms of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. |
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| Gyongyospata's mayor, Laszlo Tabi, had resigned for health reasons just three days before the controversial Good Friday bus trip. |
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| On Good Friday in 1525, Tausen used the pulpit at Antvorskov Abbey Church to proclaim Luther's reforms. |
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| In Northern Ireland, Blair was involved in negotiating the Good Friday Agreement. |
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| Good Friday and Easter Monday are public holidays across all states and territories. |
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| Matches, between the two teams are played traditionally on Good Friday and in previous seasons on Boxing Day. |
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| The encounter with Laura that Good Friday was a coup de foudre, and for the rest of his life he was to adore her, mostly from afar. |
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| In the United Kingdom both Good Friday and Easter Monday are bank holidays. |
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| The government of Northern Ireland was established as a result of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. |
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| From 1878 it established the annual Good Friday performance of Handel's Messiah. |
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| Even though Good Friday is an official national holiday, it is not a mandatory day off for commercial companies. |
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| In the Nordic countries Good Friday, Easter Sunday and Easter Monday are public holidays, and Good Friday and Easter Monday are bank holidays. |
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| Even in states where Good Friday is not a holiday, many financial institutions, stock markets, and public schools are closed. |
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| Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday and Good Friday respectively commemorate Jesus' entry in Jerusalem, the Last Supper and the Crucifixion. |
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| The battle was fought in what is the now Dublin suburb of Clontarf on Good Friday of that year. |
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| Its Roman Rite equivalent is the Mass of the Presanctified used only on Good Friday. |
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| Four days later, on Good Friday, he was buried beside the river Dwyfor in Llanystumdwy. |
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| Irish received official recognition in Northern Ireland for the first time in 1998 under the Good Friday Agreement. |
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| Under the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, there was a gradual reduction in the number of soldiers deployed. |
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| Collegium 1704's recording combines the first of Zelenka's lamentations intended for Maundy Thursday and the responsories for Good Friday and Holy Saturday. |
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| In the period since the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, Belfast has begun a social, economic and cultural transformation giving it a growing international cultural reputation. |
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| Calendrically, it is commemorated through Good Friday and Easter Day. |
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| After the deaths of Guinevere and Lancelot, Sirs Bors, Hector, Blamore, and Bleoberis head to the Holy Land to crusade, where they die on Good Friday. |
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| Aproject involving shipping containers, the BBC and communities across the North East will come to fruition on Good Friday, making it memorable for more than hot cross buns. |
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| Durkan often emphasises to unionists that the protections and constitutional mechanisms of the Good Friday Agreement would remain in the united Ireland that the SDLP seeks. |
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| On Good Friday he will preside at services in the Vatican and then lead a traditional torch-lit Via Crucis, or Way of the Cross, around the ruins of Rome's ancient Colosseum. |
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| These arrangements were made following the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. |
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| The final provisions of the 1920 Act remaining in force were repealed under the terms of the Northern Ireland Act 1998, after the Good Friday Agreement. |
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| There were large congregations at the Easter Ceremonies on last weekend, Holy Thursday, good Friday, Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday. |
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