I just can’t get used to this. The MOST IMPORTANT day in Christianity and it is NOT a holiday.
I get caught out each year BECAUSE the STOCK MARKET is closed. My life revolves around the stock market because I TRADE every day. SMILE. Terrible thing … addiction. I am addicted to trading. It could be worse. I could addicted to something that costs money.
I saw mail being delivered. I was taken aback — though we now have USPS parcel delivery on Sundays thanks to Amazon.
But, I had to check. Good Friday is NOT a federal holiday. How can that be.
Growing up, in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) & in the U.K., both Good Friday & Easter Monday were holidays. 4-day holiday.
Celebrating Juneteenth on another day is nonsensical BUT that has ALREADY started to happen, in some states, given the U.S. with 3-day Holiday weekends. So YES, a few States are OBSERVING Juneteenth on the 3rd Friday of the year. That is STUPID.
Next time June 19th falls on a Monday is 2028. Five years from now. A Leap Year, in between, jogged that forward.
So, don’t get used to Juneteenth on Mondays. Next year & for the following few it will NOT be on a Monday. OK? Got that?
You might be interested in this post from 2 years ago.
Click to ENLARGE. School of ‘Hans Memling’ c. 1510. From ‘Wikipedia Commons‘. Good Friday MIDDLE. Easter on right & birth on left.
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The U.S. has NO — I repeat ‘NO’ — Federal Holiday for Easter, though the stock markets are closed.
Good Friday is not deemed a Federal Holiday — & neither is Easter Monday, i.e., the day after Easter Sunday (in lieu of Sunday).
In many countries in the world, especially in Europe, Easter is a 4-day National Holiday. This was even the case in Ceylon when I was growing up.
But, not so, in supposedly very Christian U.S.
I saw the local school bus go by this morning. That still amazes I. School on Good Friday. But, the stock market, is closed (& when folks used to tell me that Wall St. was run by Jews). We had mail. So the post office is working. Very strange. I, however, though we are not Christians, gave my daughter the day off from homeschooling. I can’t get used to Good Friday not being a holiday.
Good Friday, IF you think about it, is the MOST SIGNIFICANT DAY In The Whole Of Human History!
What happened on a ‘Friday‘, nearly 2,000 years ago, forever & indelibly changed the course of human history.
No other event has been so consequential.
Yes, I gave this a lot of thought.
What was the most significant event, ever, that changed the course of human history?
One way or another, whether you like it or not, it has to Jesus!
You could argue that in that case the day should be the day he was born.
Alas, we don’t know when that was! Christmas is a totally fabricated holiday.
Hence Good Friday. The day he died. Easter the day he was resurrected. Easter follows from Good Friday. Hence, my claim that it is a two-part Holiday: Good Friday & Easter.
IF you don’t agree and have other contenders PLEASE let me know. It will help me in my thinking.
The U.S. has NO — I repeat ‘NO’ — Federal Holiday for Easter.
Good Friday is not deemed a Federal Holiday — & neither is Easter Monday, i.e., the day after Easter Sunday (in lieu of Sunday). In many countries in the world, especially in Europe, Easter is a 4-day National Holiday. This was even the case in Ceylon when I was growing up.
But, not so, in supposedly very Christian U.S.
I saw the local school bus go by this morning. That still amazes I. School on Good Friday. But, the stock market, is closed (& when folks used to tell me that Wall St. was run by Jews). We had mail. So the post office is working. Very strange. I, however, though we are not Christians, gave my daughter the day off from homeschooling. I can’t get used to Good Friday not being a holiday.
Good Friday, IF you think about it, is the MOST SIGNIFICANT DAY In The Whole Of Human History!
What happened on a ‘Friday‘, nearly 2,000 years ago, forever & indelibly changed the course of human history.
No other event has been so consequential.
Yes, I gave this a lot of thought.
What was the most significant event, ever, that changed the course of human history?
One way or another, whether you like it or not, it has to Jesus!
You could argue that in that case the day should be the day he was born.
Alas, we don’t know when that was! Christmas is a totally fabricated holiday.
Hence Good Friday. The day he died. Easter the day he was resurrected. Easter follows from Good Friday. Hence, my claim that it is a two-part Holiday: Good Friday & Easter.
IF you don’t agree and have other contenders PLEASE let me know. It will help me in my thinking.
Never makes sense. It is a U.S. Federal Holiday. As such there is NO U.S. postal delivery (though I have a sneaking suspicion that they might NOW be making an exception for ‘special’ priority mail). Most of the BIG banks, such as ‘Bank of America‘ are closed. The U.S. Bond Markets are closed. But, not the U.S. stock markets.
That is not right. Yes, I like having the markets open, & as soon as I post this I will be checking to see what is happening & whether I could/should do some trades. [I can’t help it. I am addicted to stock/option trading. Though definitely NOT a day trader, & never have been, I like to do some trading everyday.]
It is something to think about. Maybe down the road it would change. Let’s hope so.
Don’t forget that I have a dedicated ‘Red Poppy‘ page on my old blog.
