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Orthodox believers celebrate Good Friday

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Orthodox believers celebrate Good Friday


01.04.2021

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Orthodox Christians on Friday, April 30, celebrate Great, or Good Friday, the most mournful day of the year when Jesus Christ was crucified and died on the cross, the Vesti TV channel reports.

Orthodox Christians maintain the strictest fast on Good Friday, monks completely abstain from food. A shroud with the image of the Lord's body taken down from the cross is taken out of the altar. The shroud is installed in the middle of the church and remains there until the beginning of the Easter service. The burial rite symbolizes the funeral procession to the Holy Sepulcher - the solemn procession, along with the shroud, moves around the temple to the funeral ringing of bells.

The worship of the Shroud takes two days - until late Saturday evening (until Easter midnight office), and before the Easter procession, it is brought back to the altar.

On the morning of Good Friday, 12 passages from the Gospel are read about the passion of Jesus.

The Feast of the Resurrection of Christ this year will be celebrated on May 2.

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