If, like me, you take flex leave on the 3 days between Easter Monday and ANZAC Day, it is a 10 day holiday.
Depends. The “Mass once a year on Easter Sunday” crowd do not; the people who go to Mass weekly will vary depending on where they are; the daily-Mass people will go (and be ready to explain to all and sundry that it is not Mass).
Just to complete my confession, I didn’t know there was an Easter Monday.
I know what Friday and Sunday are for. What does Monday commemorate?
I googled it.
I went to High School in Maryland. There must be huge gaps in my memory banks.
Good Friday and Easter Monday are both public holidays in the Cayman Islands.
Supermarkets are completely closed on Good Friday, New Year’s Day, and Christmas, but that is a business decision. Liquor stores are closed by law on those days. All other public holidays supermarkets and liquor stores are open with reduced hours.
Monday doesn’t quite commemorate anything, but in many locations the three Pascuas (sorry, I don’t know a collective name for them in English) of Easter, Christmas and Pentecostas have traditionally been followed by another day off - my long-time WAG is that it’s to recover from the first one (either from the food, the family, the weather, or several of the above).
I vaguely know that Easter is coming up. It’s Monday? OK. Whatever. County Government Worker here in Colorado, and no, it’s not recognized.
Most of the Easter only crowd also shows up on Christmas. Good Friday services (you’re correct, it is not mass) are generally pretty well attended.
Most employers do not give Good Friday as a holiday, the stock market is the notable exception.
Why are you asking, if you Googled it then?
Good Friday and Easter Monday are public holidays here in South Africa. And we get the 27th of April (anniversary of the 1994 election, the end of apartheid) and the 1st of May (May Day) off as well. And this year we have a general election (also a public holiday) on the 7th of May. Which means that each of the next four weeks (starting with this week) has a public holiday.
Believe it or not, I went to wiki and one other sute and they talked about the holiday but not what it’s “for.”
The civilian employees here are off. Of course the rest of us have to work.
Nitpick: the above is for England, not the UK.
In Scotland, Good Friday is an official public holiday, but Easter Monday isn’t. That’s our trade off for getting 2nd January as well as 1st January. We’re more interested in recovering from Hogmanay than we are in having another holiday in Spring.
I’m working all weekend. Double time and a half Friday and Monday.
Puerto Rico: Good Friday is a legal civil holiday. By custom, internal decision or local ordinance a majority of public agencies and municipalities give a full or half-day off on Thursday as well.
Due to a quirk of the calendar this year Monday will be an entirely unrelated state holiday thus creating a 5-day weekend for many people.
50 years ago the whole place would shut down completely on Thursday evening, to the point in many homes of Friday’s food being left prepped the day before, and our TV stations went round-the-clock church services and biblical/devotional movies all Friday.
Nowadays it works like most of the major civil holidays, and a large part of the population heads for the SW coast resort towns.
We’re going to Holy Thursday Mass tonight, I’m taking off tomorrow (as I try to do every year) for Good Friday services, and we’ll attend the Saturday vigil Mass for Easter (several years ago I was the fire marshal for the event).
(Further explanation: in Roman Catholic practice, a fire is kindled outside the church, which is itself in complete darkness. This fire is used to light the new liturgical year’s paschal candle, which is followed by the Lucernarium ritual, in which the lit candle is brought into the darkened church, and everyone present – who all have unlit candles – light their candles from the flame, or indirectly from their neighbors’ candles).
Around here, it’s a day off for the schools, and thus a day off for me (I’ll probably spend the day tutoring, though). I don’t know how other businesses, or other branches of local government, treat it, though.
Back when I was in Montana, the university always had Good Friday off, but not explicitly: Officially, it was listed as “University Day”. Which purely coincidentally always happened to fall on the Friday preceding the first Sunday following a full moon following the vernal equinox.
We don’t get off although there’s a chance the boss will just tell us to leave early. Schools always have it off although for church/state reasons it’s generally due to a conveniently timed “Teacher’s In-Service” day. But Easter was so late this year it seems like they just said screw it and called it “Spring Holiday”.
Depends somewhat on the people and the denomination, as was indicated by Nava and Bricker. I was raised ELCA Lutheran and my church had evenings services during the Easter Triduum. So that was a service on Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday (both a separate “readings” service and the Easter Vigil), and Easter Sunday. Unfortunately my copy of the LBW is probably somewhere in my parents’ house, so I can’t pull it out for reference.
In New Mexico there’s the pilgrimage to Chimayo on Maundy Thursday and Good Friday.
I never knew Easter Monday was a thing in some places.
I’ve never had a job that wasn’t open on Good Friday, although many years I’ve used a vacation or flex day. The schools here are closed as well as the banks.
We’re actually going to church tonight (Maundy Thursday, a remembrance of the Last Supper and Jesus’ betrayal); tomorrow for Good Friday, and of course on Easter.
OK, you got your Holy Week (Passion/Palm Sunday, Monday of Holy Week, Tuesday of Holy Week, Wednesday of Holy Week, Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday). Then you got your Easter Week (Easter Sunday, Easter Monday, Easter Tuesday, Easter Wednesday, Easter Thursday, Easter Friday, Easter Saturday).
You got Ascension Thursday, 40 days after Easter. And then you got your Pentecost 50 days after Easter , which concludes the Easter season.
Looks like Tasminia gets Easter Tuesday off too!
To answer the OP, no holiday Friday or Monday here.