During Lent; the period before Easter, every Friday evening a special church service is performed which re-enacts the different stages of Christ's progress to Calvary locally known DORA. These services end on Good Friday, when the cross is placed in a coffin and taken around the church. The cross is left in the coffin during Easter Saturday and the church is in mourning until the Easter Mass is held at midnight on Saturday or on Sunday morning.

People fast during Lent and on Good Friday nobody eats any meat or animal products.

Traditionally, in Bakhdida, the church of immaculate where the good Friday prayers are held all virgin Mary’s pictures are covered with black cloth as a symbol of her sorrow as well as a bitter drink is prepared from boiling local tree twigs and flowers. Later, on this morning the bell rings for inviting people to drink it as a  symbol of the bitter drink that was offered for Jesus while on the cross.The cross is then wrapped in white fabric and kept in a coffin , and in the afternoon burial prayers are held