http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/04/18/why_is_good_friday_called_good_friday_the_etymology_and_origins_of_the_holiday.html
The third and final theory, the one supported by both the Oxford English Dictionary and every language expert I contacted, is that the name comes from an antiquated meaning of good.
A meditation on Good Friday - the deeper magic:
http://experimentaltheology.blogspot.com/2011/04/deeper-magic-good-friday-mediation.html
There, on the cross, where it seems that death is now victorious, a Deeper Magic is at work.
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