Good Friday for Us

Good Friday 

The Place of the Skull-

would have been outside

 the walls of Jerusalem.

Where this might have been 
is now a part of a bus terminal.

The rocks continue to fall off

 the side of the rock side.

It looked more like

 this about 100 years ago.

 The traditional site as preserved
 by Constantine's mother 
is The Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

The large mosaic in this setting depicts
 the crucifixion, 
and dressing of the body of Jesus.

"Early Christians venerated  the site. 

Then the emperor Hadrian 

covered it with a pagan temple.

Only in AD 326 was the first church 

begun by the emperor Constantine I. 

He tore down the pagan temple

 and had Christ’s tomb

 cut away from the original hillside. 

Constantine’s church 

was burned by Persians in 614,

 restored, destroyed by Muslims in 1009 

and partially rebuilt. 

 Crusaders completed 

the reconstruction in 1149. 

The result is essentially 

the church that stands today."

(seetheholyland.net.)

Whatever the exact site,

we know that the important event

 for Christians was our Jesus 

dying on the cross for each of us.

And we wait with Holy Saturday vigil-

the Good News of His Resurrection.