Good Friday - A sad day for Christians when we dye eggs for Easter; May 3, the day we remember

8 months ago

Today's Friday, for believers of the Orthodox Christian faith, who celebrate church holidays according to the Julian calendar, is Good Friday.
The saddest day in Christianity.
It is the day when the family paints eggs for the coming Easter.

I decided to publish this post in the #Family&Friends community, because painting eggs is a family tradition.

This morning we prepared all the portable props, so that we could start painting the eggs, when the news came on the TV.
Announcement and than silence...
On the screen is a picture with the date 3.05.2023. and in the background only the rustle of rain, from a live reportage.

We are reminded of last year's third of May, when a student of a Belgrade school, in a mindless act of madness, discharged two pistol cartridges at his schoolmates, thus killing eight of his friends as well as one security guardian.

The anniversary of that terrible event that left many families in black, an event that was not a sad day for them, but that made their lives sad.
The report from the street in front of the school where the massacre took place, today called "Silence Street", was on the program along with the confessions of the students of that school and the parents of the victims.
Sad day...

Good Friday.

The day of the suffering of Jesus Christ.
The saddest day in Christianity that precedes the greatest and most joyous day, Easter.
And the day when the eggs are painted.
To take your mind off those last year's events, we're going back to painting eggs.
We decided earlier on the painting technique with leaf decoration.
For that, in addition to eggs, various plant leaves and egg paint, we need women's nylon stockings and some thread.

We put the egg in a nylon stocking, next to one or two leaves, and tie it so that the leaf is firmly attached to the egg.

In this way, when coloring, the color will not reach the surface that is under the sheet. That part will remain in the natural color of the eggshell.

When all the eggs are prepared, they go into cold water to cook.

When the time required for cooking has passed, the eggs are taken out of the boiling water and immersed in the prepared paint (egg paint mixed in warm water). The red color is obligatory, for the first painted egg, the so-called "Čuvarkuća (guardian)", while the rest of the eggs can be painted according to will and desire, in blue, purple, pink, green, yellow, orange...