No Mass is celebrated on this day, but the service of Good Friday is called the Mass of the Presanctified because Communion (in the species of bread) which had already been consecrated on Holy ...

Catholic churches typically do not hold mass on Good Friday ... Altars are left bare," read a Good Friday post on Catholic Online's website. If a service is performed, Catholic Online says ...

At the time of that declaration, Jewish groups expressed concern because the Latin Mass recited on Good Friday included a ... number of sweeping changes to Catholic ritual and practice ...