why “good friday”?
dahil nasa panahon ako ng sobrang pag-iisip this holy week . . . pati dahilan kung bakit “good friday” today ay pinroblema ko na rin . . . hehehehe
i just thought . . . why do we call it “good” when everything that happened to jesus was all bad and wrong? he suffered and died - there was pain, abuse, and death . . . i don’t think there’s anything good about it . . . it was terribly bad . . .
wow . . . for 27 years ngayon ko lang tinanong sarili ko about it. for 12 years i studied in a catholic school but i never even thought about it . . . sabagay, wala nang pasok ‘pag holy week . . .
in an attempt to find answers to my question, i tried surfing the net (grabe! thank god for quick information! goodbye collier’s encyclopedia and britannica, hehehe) . . .
well, from the internet i found out lots of reasons why it’s called “good friday” . . . let me share it with you . . .
1. the word “good” was used in the old english way . . . by that, “good” actually meant “holy” hence, “good friday” is really termed as “holy friday”
2. in germany, they call this day “karfreitag”. i learned that “kar” may mean “care” and “woe”. as such, “karfreitag” actually meant “friday of mourning”
3. they said that “good” also meant “god”. sorry, pero ngayon ko lang din ito nalaman . . . “good-bye” actually meant “god be with you” . . . and using this as an example, “good friday” could actually mean “god’s friday”
4. lastly (and i believe this is the best meaning for “good friday”), this day can really be called such because this is the day when all of us recognize that the evils in this world led to the greatest good - the salvation of everyone.
just sharing . . . 
–GI 30682