Good Friday: Christians pray at home during coronavirus Easter holiday

Members of All Saints Cathedral follow a mass service in an empty church to celebrate Easter. [Stafford Ondego/Standard]

Christians commemorated Jesus’ crucifixion without the solemn church services or emotional processions of past years.

They marked Good Friday in their homes following the coronavirus pandemic that has seen the Ministry of Health impose a raft of measures to stop the spread of the virus that has killed 95,808 people globally.

The clergy told their congregation to stay home and remember Jesus’ suffering through family prayers, fasting and by watching masses and religious shows on TV or online.

On a sombre and quiet Good Friday in Nakuru, Bishop Maurice Muhatia called for prayer for people suffering and dying from the virus. “We are celebrating Good Friday, the commemoration of the death of Jesus, under very difficult circumstances,” said the Bishop in a Good Friday message in one of the church’s radio station.

Apostle John Kimani William of Kingdom Seekers Fellowship in Nakuru town, in his Easter message used the church’s TV station- MBCI TV to preach the gospel.

Bishop Mike Brawan of Metro Church recorded a three minutes video for his Good Friday message. “It is finished,” he said of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

“Let us remind ourselves of some of the basics. Jesus is present with us - the risen Jesus is present in every community, however small. This was captured in Mathew’s gospel: For where two or three are father, in my name, I’m there among them,” he preached.