What's Wrong with Friday the 13th

Friday the 13th has been considered a very unlucky day due to the fact that it combines two "undesirable things": Friday, the day that the Lord Jesus was crucified, and thirteen, a number which denotes transgression of completeness because 12 is considered to be a complete number and more significantly because the death of the Lord on that "Friday" was due to the traitor, Judas, considered to be the 13th counting from the Lord Himself plus 12 Apostles and Judas was always counted the last hence the 13th in the order. See more here. 

But the Catholic Church considers this as mere superstition which do not have a place in the Christian faith. A Christian cannot be concerned with any superstition because it is included in the prohibition of God against the worship of "other gods", idols and other spirits, deities or forces which people would consider having control over their lives, because he alone is God and He has power over everything [see Exodus 9:14; 20: 2-6; Deuteronomy 4:35; 32:39; Isaiah 43:10; 44:6; 45:5; Psalm 18:31; Joel 2:27 among others].

So what's wrong with Friday the 13th? 

What's wrong with Friday the 13th is this: THE continued belief in its being an unlucky day. Just consider these points: 

[1] Every minute, maybe even every second, people die and many of these deaths are not always peaceful or desirable but due to accidents or the evil intent of other people and they happen not only on a Friday the 13th, not even always on a Friday or a 13th day. In fact, many people die even during blessed days such as Christmas, Easter, Independence Day, Thanksgiving Day, birthdays, etc. and many of these are also not in accordance with what could call "blessed deaths". So it is "unfair" to consider Friday the 13th the "only unlucky day" if we have to consider this fact about people dying.

[2] The Friday on which Jesus Christ our Lord was crucified and died was not a "bad day". In fact the Church calls it Good Friday not because "God died" on that day but because God manifested His greatest love for humanity [see John 3:16]. Without Jesus Christ, the Second Person of the Holy Trinity, giving up His life on that day, the redemption of all mankind would not have taken place. The Lord gave His "ALL" on that day hence that Friday was full of blessings for all humanity and not very "unlucky" indeed. 

[3] The number 13 is not inherently unlucky as the number 6 is not inherently evil. The Holy Bible does not record anything which states their being inherently detestable numbers. In fact what the Bible says is that everything that God has made is good and very good [see Genesis 1]. How we use them in an improper or wrong manner that makes God's creation bad [see Ezekiel 5:11; 23:38; Jeremiah 16:18]. Not because seven and twelve have been considered as significant numbers, that 6 and 13 have become evil or unlucky in themselves. The number 13 is even considered as the "lucky" number of At Anthony and his holiness and love for God cannot be denied. Moreover, if 13 is believably unlucky, the Apostles would not have considered choosing a replacement for the vacated position of Judas Iscariot among them. And do we not welcome 13 in the sense of the baker's dozen: when we get an extra piece of bread by buying 12 pieces?

We even have that very important passage from St Paul's first letter to the Corinthians in double 13 [Chapter 13, verse 13]: "And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love." What a great coincidence that one of the greatest passages of the Holy Bible should have double of the most undesirable number. Doesn't it say so much against lack of faith which make people turn to superstition, loss of hope which lead people to seek other sources of strength other than God and absence of love which keep people away from relying on the ultimate goodness and providence of God?

Superstitions, horoscopes, witchcraft, etc are not consistent with the Christian Faith. They are playing games with the Devil. People who try to rely on anything except God and His providence are only ruining their lives. If we are truly Christians, we will never put ourselves in the mercy of the evil one and so we have to avoid those things that do not develop and strengthen our friendship with God but weaken and destroy it. 

The next time you think about luck and what the future is in store for us, think of God's love, mercy and providence. Nothing is more acceptable to God than pure and unstained faith in His love and being in control of everything. Anything that is inconsistent with this is of the evil one.

A blessed Friday the 13th and weekend to all!