Good Friday is a solemn, quiet day for our Catholic Churches.  Because a Catholic Mass necessitates consecration (the bread and wine becoming the body and blood of Christ), Good Friday is not filled with Masses but rather Eucharist services, using the hosts that were consecrated and venerated the night before.  Good Friday is solemn, obviously, because of what we are reminded of: Jesus Christ suffering His Passion, being ripped, scraped, cut, bruised, tortured, humiliated, and spat upon. We are, therefore, as a sign of respect and love asked to approach and kiss the cross that the priest holds during the services we attend.  It is a quiet day out of reverence to the death of Jesus, therefore, the services have no music at all, usually. With all this said, why then is it “Good”?  The work of the cross transforms the evil of the torture to a salvific, saving action…