Holy and Great Saturday
“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…
Ознака:Holy Saturday
Services and Sacraments
Services and Sacraments
Holy and Great Saturday
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…
Services and Sacraments
Holy and Great Friday (in the evening)
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…
