On Good Friday, the saddest day in Christianity, when people crucified Jesus Christ, there are no liturgies and no church bells are rung.
On the eve of the great Christian holiday of Easter, Archpriest Nikola Pejović, an elder in the Cathedral of Christ's Resurrection, in Colors of the Morning on TV Vijesti, points out that Good Friday is the path to resurrection, and that it is impossible to see the mystery of resurrection without the mystery of the cross, just as the cross means nothing without resurrection.
"In that Christian and Easter ethos, our faith and the system of values by which we live are somewhere. So Easter is preceded by this whole Sunday, which we call Great, from Holy Monday, so today is Good Friday, tomorrow is Holy Saturday. Big events in terms of magnitude which happened in those days and which describe in detail everything that happened with Jesus in those last days of his life. This is especially expressed in today's hymnography and liturgies, where literally every event from the life of those last moments, we can say those days, is described From arrest, betrayal, to being brought to court, to condemnation, to spitting, whipping, humiliation, to carrying the cross, crucifixion and everything that happened after the crucifixion when nature itself rebelled, when the sun darkened, when the curtain in the Jerusalem Temple split in half, when the stones were crushed and when nature simply reacted to the amount of injustice that happened on this day, and this injustice is reflected in the fact that this day is a truly terrible judgment, because man is sinful, transitory, perishable, judge the sinless God".
In preparation for Easter, believers today buy and dye eggs in red, which symbolizes the spilled blood of Jesus, Pejović reminded.
"Everything and the customs related to that day, primarily through the custom of painting and crossing Easter eggs, shows us and through that somewhere we confess that the faith we believe in is not only the faith of suffering and crucifixion, but also the faith of the Resurrection. So on that day, however is quiet and without any big work in homes, in temples, yet that children's joy and the crossing of Easter eggs foreshadow the final victory of good over evil and life over death".
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