Both are derived from the medieval Good Friday liturgy that Catholics and some other Christian churches continue to use in a modified form today. In 1959, Pope John XXIII dropped the word “perfidis” entirely from the Latin prayer in the all-Latin Roman missal. Jacopo Landi/NurPhoto via Getty Images There has been similar sensitivity about another part of the Catholic Good Friday tradition: the ritual veneration of the cross. The earliest evidence of a Good Friday procession by lay people to venerate the cross on Good Friday comes from fourth-century Jerusalem. It was written by: Joanne M. Pierce, College of the Holy Cross.

Source: The North Africa Journal March 31, 2021 13:56 UTC