This is Holy Friday for Orthodox Christians. For Orthodox Christians In the holy lands of the Mideast today and Holy Week signify particularly hard spiritual (and sometimes political) struggles. Time can be forgotten in the fasting and spiritual work of this week. I have included a clip from an icon of the crucifixion as a reminder. The following note and photo came from Palestine; Every year in the holy lands sprouted in the season of the Week of Pain and it is a red flower symbolizing the blood of the Lord Jesus crucified for us inside it a black cross symbolizing the mother of the Lord Jesus for us and this cross is surrounded by a small thorn symbolizing the thorn crown and this flower withers after resurrection in the fifty period.
