Today is Good Friday, a day widely marked by Christians as the day Jesus Christ died on the cross.

Pastor Sophie Mathonnet-VanderWell with Second Reformed Church in Pella says the holiday is for reflection of the significant event in the religion.

“Good Friday is the actual day of the crucifixion, in the middle of the day actually, according to the gospels, and so a lot of churches have services at noon, some churches have services in the evening, but it’s sort of a solumn, somber day to remember that event,” she says.

Pastor Steve Mathonnet-VanderWell says it’s hard to explain what the cross accomplished.

“Christians differ somewhat or would maybe say that that’s kind of a multi-faceted ‘How did Jesus’s death do anything?’ he says. “And yet I think we do as Christian’s claim that it was somehow a sacrifice, it was Jesus sort of submitting to the authorities and all the evil of the world put upon him and all of those kinds of things.”

“How that happened, we never get to precise because it is sort of a mystical thing.”

Christians around the globe will participate in Good Friday and Easter Service this weekend.