[GirlShortstop]

This is a day of fasting and abstinence. Hot cross buns have been the traditional Good Friday English food since 1361.

I have some learning to do.  Observing Good Friday includes fasting.  When are the buns eaten, tomorrow?

Another question I hope can be cleared up for me:  "Following the ancient tradition of the Church, there are no sacraments celebrated on Good Friday nor Holy Saturday."  An in-law of a friend is converting to Catholicism and as I understood it, the RCIA candidates become members of The Church during the Easter Vigil (officially?).  Will there be sacraments?  Thanks in advance for some insight.

[Salvation]

**Observing Good Friday includes fasting. When are the buns eaten, tomorrow?**

I always served them with clam chowder or oyster stew on Good Friday. (My family didn't like the oyster stew, however!) LOL!

[Salvation]

** An in-law of a friend is converting to Catholicism and as I understood it, the RCIA candidates become members of The Church during the Easter Vigil (officially?). Will there be sacraments?**

Congratulations. Yes, it is a full and beautiful Vigil Mass! One of my favorites. I lean toward Holy Thursday because of the servant image of Jesus Christ in washing the feet of the apostles. The Vigil Mass would be my second choice.

But I am the lector tonight at the Good Friday service. (Only day in the church year when there is no Mass.)

Liturgy of the Word
Veneration of the Cross
Holy Communion

[Desdemona]

Another question I hope can be cleared up for me: "Following the ancient tradition of the Church, there are no sacraments celebrated on Good Friday nor Holy Saturday." An in-law of a friend is converting to Catholicism and as I understood it, the RCIA candidates become members of The Church during the Easter Vigil (officially?). Will there be sacraments? Thanks in advance for some insight.

A couple things. Noon is sort of the cutoff for confession. There can be confession after this. The Easter Vigil is celebrated after dark. In recent years this has been movedd up. It used to start at 10:30 or so and the sacraments were after midnight, thus making it a real vigil.

There will be sacraments: Baptism, Confirmation and Holy Eucharist. This is part of the liturgy itself. There just are none, other than confession, outside of the Easter Vigil