Was Jesus Crucified On Thursday Or Friday

  I have heard quite a few different people saying Jesus was crucified on the cross on Thursday and not Friday as we Catholics believe. I myself had been always taught it was on Friday. When I first heard someone say this I thought here goes some more misinformation for the wagon. Well I decided to do some reading that has been written by Catholics and not any other faith.

 I read a response to an individual that asked the question on Catholic Answers. The person was using two different points to base his decision on. His first reason was because the day of preparation in the Gospels would have been Thursday and not Friday. He said that according to the text this would have been the day Jesus was crucified on. His second point was that Pope Benedict XVI in his homily was agreeing with him. Apparently this persons second reason was taken from an article in the wanderer that was mistranslated.
"  I decided to give the exact quote from Catholic Answers Good Thursday?, because he explains it better that I could.  This is only a small part. "As I said in my article, the day of preparation," in the Gospels, speaks in accord with the way the Passover was celebrated in the temple and by the priests. Though a strict observance of the date of Passover would have had "the day of preparation" to be on Thursday, the fourteenth of Nisan, the common practice of the day was similar to modern practice in the Church. Feasts could be, and often were, moved to the closest Sabbath. Thus, "the day of preparation," when the lambs were actually slain would have been Friday, rather than Thursday. Thus, Christ would have been crucified on Friday, "the day of preparation" (cf. Matt. 27:62). In my article, I did not have the space to get into precisely how the apostles could have celebrated the Passover if there were no sacrificed lambs to use for the liturgical observance. Pope Benedict XVI, in his above-mentioned Holy Thursday homily, actually gives a very plausible, though not definitive, answer to that question. He argues: "Consequently, Jesus celebrated the Passover without a lamb—no, not without a lamb: instead of the lamb he gave himself, his body and his blood." "

Here is a link another link to another article at Catholic Answers http://www.catholic.com/magazine/articles/how-do-we-explain-the-passover-discrepancy . 
  I hope this information is helpful and remember there is a lot of information available on the internet. Just be careful what you read because there is a lot of misinformation out there.
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