On this Holy and Great Saturday, when all of creation stands in mystical silence before the majesty of Christ’s rest in the Tomb following His all-saving work, the Sacred Monastery of Bigorski enters into the height of sacred expectation—the moment…
“Lord my God, I sing a departure hymn and a burial song to You, who through Your burial opened the gates of life for me, and by Your death put death and Hades to death.” (Troparion from the Canon of…
He Who enclosed the deeps is now seen dead; and the immortal One is laid in a tomb enclosed in a shroud with myrrh. Women, too, come to anoint Him, weeping bitterly and lamenting: "This Sabbath is blessed above all…
Gathered in the night around the Kuvuklia with the Holy Epitaphio, as if around the Tomb of Christ, with prayer and contemplation we pay tribute to the mystery of this Life-giving Tomb. The heart-breaking verses of lamentation carve with the…
