Good Friday (Good Friday) is the day on which God's son Jesus Christ was crucified to become the atoning sacrifice for the sins of humanity.
On this day of Holy Week, fasting in the Orthodox Church is particularly strict - then neither eating nor drinking (not even water) is allowed. On Friday, the Faith commands not to undertake any work.
On Good Friday, the Holy Liturgy is not celebrated during the day, because on that day the Lord himself offered himself as a sacrifice, but the Royal Hours are performed.
At Vespers in the church, the sufferings of Christ, his death and his burial are remembered and experienced.
Before the beginning of the service, a symbolic tomb of Christ, decorated with flowers, is erected in a special place in the middle of the church, and the Shroud is placed on the throne - the cloth with which the dead body of Christ was wrapped after he was taken down from the cross. The Shroud is a piece of cloth on which the image of the Savior lying in the tomb is embroidered. The Shroud is carried out in the following way: the singer stands in front of the north door of St. altar and begins to slowly sing the first stanza: Egda ot dreva..., and after him goes the priest and other church ministers, who carry the holy shroud, walk three times around the crucifix and the prepared table (kuvukliya) and place the shroud on the table. The priest, and after him the worshipers, kiss the holy cross, the holy gospel and the shroud itself.
During the evening service, the ode to the Lord is performed before the shroud. The hymns are dedicated to the suffering and death of Christ.
After the Shroud is brought out at the evening service, it is carried around the temple and symbolically the burial of Christ is performed.
At the end of Vespers, the priest takes the Shroud from the center of the temple and places it on the holy throne in the altar.
On this saddest day of Holy Week, according to Orthodox tradition, Christians pass under the table with the Shroud as a sign of humility and repentance and take a consecrated geranium from the temple.