The New and Improved Crucifixion: Good Friday Edition
Jumpin' Jack Pratt, I love Good Friday Mass! It's so beautiful. The silent processions; the long, theatrical Gospel, during the course of which the parishioners stand in for the angry, crucifixion-hungry denizens of Jerusalem; even more kneeling and standing than the normal Catholic Mass; the Veneration* of the Cross; the Body but no Blood; and of course, that fact that while so gathered we are thanking the Christ for saving Mankind. Woot!

*Because of the Catholic distinction between veneration and adoration, adoration being the love and worship reserved exclusively for the three persons of God, the Holy Trinity, the Veneration of the Cross is not idolatry, as some of the more fundamentalist Protestants would suggest.